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The Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) has been repositioned to tackle unrest and unemployment in the Niger Delta by empowering youths in the area with requisite skills. Interim Administrator of the Programme, Major General Barry Ndiomu (rtd), disclosed this during a courtesy call to the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) in Lagos...

Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, on Friday, urged the Justices of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) to be guided by integrity, truth and fear of God in the discharge of their crucial national assignment. Frank in a statement in Abuja...

The Bishop Emeritus of the Archdiocese of Abuja, Cardinal John Onaiyekan, has spoken about the connection between religion and governance in a country. Speaking in an interview on Channels Television’s ‘Sunrise Daily’ on Thursday, Onaiyekan said that those involved in rigging the outcome of the last elections know themselves, urging...

By Augustine Aminu Minister of works and housing, Babatunde Fashola says an ad hoc committee of the senate investigating a N6 trillion unpaid ground rent should direct its enquiries to the office or the secretary to the government of the federation (OSGF). The upper legislative chamber had set up the...

By Augustine Aminu Minister of state for labour and employment, Festus Keyamo says Bola Tinubu, president-elect, will be sworn into office to avoid a vacuum in the government. Keyamo spoke in reaction to comments credited to John Onaiyekan, former Catholic archbishop of Abuja, who said “it doesn’t make much sense”...

*Says rate of unqualified teachers nationwide alarming  *teachers use out-dated equipments for illustration By Augustine Aminu The Registrar, Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria,TRCN, Prof. Josiah Ajiboye has declared that unqualified persons in the teaching profession are not teachers, but cheaters, adding that they don’t only cheat the pupils/students but the...

A Division of the High Court of Justice of Kogi State sitting in Lokoja, the state capital, has today warned parties involved in the motion on notice filed by the Attorney-General of the state against the Attorney-General of the Federation and five others on the concession of Ajaokuta Steel Company...

The Nigerian Army on Thursday said it had rescued two additional girls from the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, nine years after their abduction by Boko Haram in 2014. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the Theatre Commander, North-East Joint Operation Hadin Kai, Maj.-Gen. Ibrahim Ali, made this known...

The first batch of Nigerians who were evacuated from war-torn Sudan arrived in the country late Wednesday. The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission made this known in a terse statement on its Twitter page early Thursday. Sharing photos of the evacuees, the commission tweeted, “The first batch of Nigerians who fled...

The Senate on Wednesday passed a bill to regulate the manufacturing, use importation, sales and possession of explosives in the country. The passage followed the consideration and adoption of a report by the Senate Committee on Solid Minerals, Mines, Steel Development and Metallurgy, chaired by Senator Tanko Al-Makura. Section 11...