Plateau State Government has reinstated the 24-hour curfew earlier relaxed in Jos North Local Government Area following growing tensions arising from the attack on Yelwa Zangam village of the Local Government where people were killed and properties destroyed. According to Governor Simon Lalong, the 24 hour came into force from 4pm on 25th August until…
Teachers in Osun state on Wednesday endorsed the state Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola for a second term in office. The over 11,000 teachers under the umbrella of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) passed a vote of confidence in the Administration of Governor Adegboyega Oyetola for prioritising workers’ welfare and well-being, particularly the teachers in the…
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has denied claims that personnel on duty at the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) CCTV monitoring room were sleeping when bandits attacked the officers’ residential. The attack on the quarters led to the death of two officers and the abduction of one other officer. An online news platform, TheCable, had reported that…
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the attack launched on the facility of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) on Tuesday, rather than throw a dampener into the morale of our Armed Forces as it is intended to, will buoy their determination to make a decisive end of criminality in the country. The President in a…
The Nigeria Army has described as blackmail, allegations by Emeka Okoroafor, a lawmaker in Abia State that its officers were aiding and abetting criminality in Isuikwuato Local Government Area of the State. According to the army, the lawmaker alleged that when security agents arrested suspected kidnappers of Abia state university lecturers, a certain call came…
The Dangote Group has bagged three awards given by the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) in recognition of its outstanding contributions to the development of the engineering profession in the country. The awards were presented during the NSE Ikeja Branch’s dinner and awards ceremony organised as part of activities to round-off its engineering week with…
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa has urged banks in the country to investigate the kind of businesses their potential customers does before opening an account for them. Bawa made this known on Tuesday when members of the Association of Chief Audit Executives of Banks in Nigeria, ACAEBIN, led…
The Department of Petroleum Resources has faulted the claim by the Nigeria Customs Service that it was partly responsible for the continued smuggling of Premium Motor Spirit popularly called petrol, which has been subsidised by the Federal Government. The Head, Downstream Department, DPR, Bashir Sodiq, said filling stations along the land borders now get less…
The Nigerian Defence Academy has confirmed the attack on the institution by gunmen, saying its security architecture was compromised. A statement on Tuesday in Kaduna by the Public Relations Officer of the Academy, Maj. Bashir Jajira said two officers were killed while one was abducted The spokesman disclosed that the bandits gained access into the…
The federal government on Monday flagged off the onboarding of 510 N-Power beneficiaries in the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq who flagged off the event in Abuja, congratulated the successful beneficiaries and charged them to make optimum use of the…