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n its determination to reduce youth unemployment in the South East, the federal government has concluded arrangements to equip the vulnerable in the ninety-five Local Government Areas that constitute the zone with vocational skills and other empowerment initiatives. This is ...

We’ll investigate, Odumosu assures A Lagos resident, Korede Abiodun, has raised alarm over the reappearance of disbanded Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS) operatives on the road.Abiodun on Wednesday morning alleged that he saw at least four armed policemen wearing the ...

A captured Boko Haram fighter says Abubakar Shekau, leader of the sect, can no longer walk effectively.Mohammed Adam, a teenage fighter, who is currently in custody of troops of 195 battalion of the Nigerian army, said Shekau got injured during ...

A Lagos State High court on Wednesday (today) sentenced popular prophet and Sheperd-in-charge of CCC Global Genesis church, Prophet Israel Oladele Ogundipe to two-year imprisonment for defrauding an American based woman. The trial judge, Justice Olabisi Akinlade sentenced Prophet Oladele ...

Armstrong Bakam, Bauchi The Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, has blamed a previous administration for being responsible for the continuous strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. Although Adamu was not specific on which administration he was referring ...

…‘We should move fast to remove structural bottlenecks that hobble our country’…Says APC committee proposed significant devolution of powers between federal, state govtsGovernor Nasir Ahmed El-Rufai of Kaduna State says state police is among the key recommendations the All Progressives ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for backing Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in emerging as the first female and African Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The party’s National Chairman, Mr Uche Secondus, gave the commendation ...

Port Harcourt— Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has described the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) as a terrorist group and signed an executive order to reinforce the ban on IPOB its activities in the state. He made this known ...

The National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) has warned media houses in the country to cautiously feature user-generated content in their reports.In a statement released on Tuesday night, the regulator said this directive is aimed at preventing embarrassment to “individuals, organisations, government ...

1. The Nigerian Army is set to start its annual Exercise CROCODILE SMILE which is traditionally conducted in the last quarter of the year. This year’s Exercise CROCODILE SMILE VI is scheduled to commence from the 20th of October to ...