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Job seekers, intending couples must undergo drug test – NDLEA
The National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says that strategies are currently in place to eradicate the use of illicit drugs, as intending couples will be required to…
Security Agent, six others nabbed for selling cocaine, others to students, cultists (Photos)
A serving officer of a law enforcement agency, Popoola Abayomi, has been arrested for selling assorted illicit drugs to students of a federal university and cultists in Ogun State. The drug dealer, who serves in the Lagos State Command…
Ethnic Bigotry Fueling Insecurity, Secessionist Agitation – Fayemi
Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi has blamed security challenges nationwide on the growing embers of ethnic and religious bigotry that has become…
Judiciary Is Already Independent, Else We Won’t Agree When They Cancel Elections – Ganduje
In an interactive session with journalists, commemorating the second anniversary of June 12 as Democracy Day, Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State, spoke on sundry local and national issues.…
2nd Niger bridge will be completed in 2022 – Fashola
Babatunde Fashola, minister of works and housing, says the construction of the second Niger bridge will be completed in 2022. The minister spoke at a forum organised by the News Agency of Nigeria to mark the sixth…
BREAKING: 14 die as bandits attack Benue police station
Benue Police Command has confirmed 14 bandits have been killed in a gun duel following an attempted attack on a station in Katsina-Ala town, Benue state on Sunday morning. Police spokesperson Kate Anene, a DSP , who…
JUST IN: Gunmen kill popular Ibadan OAP
Popular Ibadan-based On-Air Personality (OAP) Titus Badejo aka Ejanla has been killed by gunmen. The Nation learnt he was shot dead on Saturday night by gunmen in Oluyoye…
Ogun records N13.3bn IGR monthly in Q1
Ogun State Government has recorded an average of N13.3billion monthly as Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) in the first quarter of 2021. The government said it is also planning to…
Advocates of restructuring, secession, dangerous, naive ..says Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday stood up to advocates of restructuring and secession in the country, saying that they were asking for the impossible. He…
Reject Lauretta Onochie as INEC commissioner… she lacks integrity – CSOs tell Senate
A coalition of 11 civil society organisations (CSOs) has asked the senate to reject the nomination of Lauretta Onochie, a presidential aide, as commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission…
South-east governors kick against secession, say ‘Igbo committed to one Nigeria’
The south-east governors’ forum has condemned the activities of “violent secessionist groups” in the region and other parts of the country. There have been a series of…
I made N400k a month supplying bread to bandits in Kaduna – Baker
Hassan Magaji, a suspect and bread factory owner, says he made N400,000 supplying bread to bandits in Kaduna state. Magaji, Abubakar Ibrahim, Auwal Abubakar and Ibrahim…
REPORTER’S DIARY: No ‘African time’, conflicting seat numbers — riding the Lagos-Ibadan train…
As I prepared to leave for the Mobolaji Johnson Station in the Ebutte Metta area of Lagos that Wednesday morning, the heavy rainfall that blasted through the roof and swept…
Fed Govt earned $34.22b from oil, gas sector in 2019, says NEITI
The Federal Government earned $34.22billion from the oil and gas sector in 2019. The figure represented an increase of 4.88percent over the $32.63billion revenue gained from the sector in 2018. A breakdown of…
President Buhari immortalize Chuba Okadigbo
I decided! I decided!! To join the ANPP, to chase out those people (Obasanjo and Atiku) from Aso Rock” Chuba Okadigbo – In…
Guterres appoints Amina Mohammed as UN deputy secretary-general for second term
António Guterres, secretary-general of the United Nations (UN), has asked Amina Mohammed to serve as deputy secretary-general for a second term. On Friday, Guterres was…
Gov. Abiodun visits scene of OPIC Plaza gas explosion
The Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has paid a visit to the scene of OPIC Plaza fire outbreak in Lagos State and described the incident as unfortunate and regrettable.…
INEC begins online voter registration on June 28 – Official
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is opening it registration portal on June 28 for online voter registration, according to the INEC National Commissioner,…
I have not sacked any civil servant, only 99 appointees sacked – El-Rufai
Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El Rufai, has said that his government has not disengaged any state civil servant in its ongoing rightsizing exercise, stating that, only 99…
APC govs agree to implement judicial, legislative autonomy
Governors elected under the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC) are set to commence process for the implementation of the autonomy of the judiciary and state…
Sanwo-Olu commissions four rehabilitated roads in Ikoyi
Heavy flow of traffic associated with the perennial flooding in Ikoyi-Obalende area of Lagos State is now past, with the complete regeneration of…
Surging oil prices will create problems for Nigeria, says Mele Kyari
Mele Kyari, group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), says rising crude oil prices will cause problems for resource-dependent countries…
‘It’s robbing youths of their future’ — Oyedepo backs regulation of social media
David Oyedepo, presiding bishop of Living Faith Church Worldwide, says unlimited access to social media platforms is robbing youths of their future. Speaking on Friday at the seventh convocation of Landmark…
10 states yet to implement minimum wage
Two years after the new minimum wage was okayed by the Federal Government, 10 states are yet to implement it, the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria…