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Nasarawa to pay NECO registration fees for final year students

NewsDeskNgMar 18, 2024March 18, 20240

…to begin distribution of palliative to students of tertiary institutions The Nasarawa State Government said it will pay registration fees for the 2024 National Examinations Council (NECO) for all final year students in public schools. Governor Abdullahi Sule disclosed this while inaugurating four newly appointed permanent secretaries, as well as...

Inside Yahaya Bello’s unprecedented 8year reign and achievements as Kogi governor

NewsDeskNgMar 18, 2024March 18, 20240

On the 27th January, 2016, former governor Yahaya Bello was sworn in as the fourth executive governor of Kogi State and led the state uninterrupted for a sterling period of 8 years which ended on the 27th January, 2024. Bello handed over power to his worthy successor Ahmed Usman Ododo...

CSO Chief urges security agencies to collaborate with NSCDC to tackle insecurity

NewsDeskNgMar 18, 2024March 18, 20240

As Nigeria continue to factor ways to tackle insecurity, a civil society organization chief and security expert Sunday Attah has called for effective collaboration among security operatives to tackle the spate of insecurity in the country. Attah made the call on Monday at a press conference in Abuja stressing that...

Dangote lauds Lagos Govt. on consumer rights advocacy

NewsDeskNgMar 18, 2024March 18, 20240

L-R: Lagos State Commissioner for Commerce, Cooperative, Trade and Investment, Folashade Ambrose-Medebem; Group Executive Director, Commercial Operations, Dangote Industries Limited, Fatima Aliko Dangote; General Manager, Lagos State Consumer Protection Agency (LASCOPA), Solebo Afolabi Adebayo (Esq); at a One-day Conference and Exhibition to commemorate World Consumer Rights Day 2024 organized by...

How Lieutenant Colonel, 15 other soldiers were brutally murdered in Delta

NewsDeskNgMar 18, 2024March 18, 20240

… As CDS gives marching order for arrest of perpetrators No fewer than 16 Nigerian soldiers, including a Lieutenant Colonel, two Majors and one Captain have been killed in Okuama Community in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State, after they were deployed to quell brewing conflicts over ancestral...

Fraudsters going after judicial officers – NJC

NewsDeskNgMar 18, 2024March 18, 20240

National Judicial Council (NJC) has raised an alarm over alleged incessant bids by a group of fraudsters to defraud retired judicial officers across the country. The Council claimed that the alleged fraudsters have been bombarding its retired judicial officers with phone calls demanding for various sums of money to help...

Nigeria loses $3bn to solid minerals theft – miners

NewsDeskNgMar 18, 2024March 18, 20240

Miners in the country have expressed their support to the establishment of Solid Minerals Special Task Force (SMSTF) in order to control illegal mining activities in the country. They also said the Nigerian government loses above $3billion revenue to solid minerals theft and illegal mining activities. This was revealed by...

NDLEA arrests hair stylist, dispatch rider for allegedly selling drug-laced chin-chin to students

NewsDeskNgMar 18, 2024March 18, 20240

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 20-year-old hair stylist, Josephine Odunu and a 30-year-old dispatch rider, Edesemi Ikporo, for allegedly selling and distributing illicit drug-laced chin-chin to school students and at social parties in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. The NDLEA Spokesperson, Femi Bbafemi, in a...

PANDEF condemns killing of military personnel in Delta

NewsDeskNgMar 18, 2024March 18, 20240

Chief Edwin Clark led Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) has condemned the killings of senior military officers and soldiers at Okuama Community, Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta. Clark in a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday, March 17, expressed his pain and displeasure over the dastardly act. He...

Nigeria,15 other countries to benefit from ROGEAP renewable energy prog

NewsDeskNgMar 18, 2024March 18, 20240

No fewer than 16 countries, including Nigeria, Ghana, Niger Republic, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire and Mali, have been earmarked to benefit from the Economic Community of West African States/Regional Off-Grid Electricity Access Project, ECOWAS/ROGEAP grant initiative for Small and Medium Enterprises, SMEs for 2024. Other eligible countries are Burkina Faso, Benin...