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No reprisal attack on Okuama Community, says Army

NewsDeskNgMar 19, 2024March 19, 20240

In the wake of speculations of a possible reprisal attack on Okuama Community in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State over the gruesome killing of 16 soldiers, the Nigerian Army has assured that it has no intention of avenging the death of the troops. In a statement issued on...

Governor Sule woos Obi, opposition to join hands with Tinubu to build Nigeria

NewsDeskNgMar 18, 2024March 18, 20240

Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has called on the 2023 presidential candidate of the opposition Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi to join hands and support President Ahmed Bola Tinubu towards building a virile country. Governor Sule made the call when he hosted Mr Obi on a courtesy call at...

PAP:Gen. Ndiomu Bows Out, Hands Over Amnesty Baton To Otuaro

NewsDeskNgMar 18, 2024March 18, 20240

Major General Barry Ndiomu (retd) has handed over leadership of the Presidential Amnesty Programme PAP to Dr. Dennis Otuaro, after a largely productive 18-month stewardship. Ita Henshaw, Technical Assistant to the former Interim Administrator handed over the notes to Otuaro in a brief ceremony at the PAP Office in Abuja...

Electoral Reforms: Ugandan Mayor Arrives Nigeria For Haske Satumari Foundation Colloquium

NewsDeskNgMar 18, 2024March 18, 20240

Ahead of this year’s colloquium organized by Haske Satumari Foundation that opens conversation on electoral and Judicial Reforms, the Mayor of Entebbe in Uganda, Fabrice Rulinda has arrived in Nigeria. Rulinda, who is a special guest at the Haske Satumari Foundation annual colloquium with the theme: “Electoral And Judicial Reforms:...

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...