Monthly Archives: January, 2018
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A CALL TO SALVAGE THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, NIA. OPEN LETTER TO HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES COMMITTEE ON SECURITY AND NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
29th January, 2018
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PREAMBLE: This letter is in demonstration of our collective patriotism emanating from our undiluted loyalty to the Nigerian nation. It emanate from our love for fairness, justice, equity and fairness in the pursuit of national goals....
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Establish Peace Commission, CITAD Tells FG
By Sule Aliyu, Bauchi
The Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) has stressed the need for the review of the national peace architecture to provide for the establishment of a National Peace Commission with the mandate to promote peace...
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ATM: Bauchi Police Uncovers New Trick By Criminals
By Sule Aliyu, Bauchi
IN its effort to checkmate cases of fraud at ATM points in the state, Bauchi State Police Command through its operatives from the State Intelligence Bureau (SUB) has arrested one Abdullahi Buhari, 27yrs of Zoo Road,...
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Dogara queries delayed Execution of National Electricity Gas Improvement Project
By Aaron Ossai
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara has restated the commitment of the Legislature to tackling challenges bedeviling the power sector.
This, he said, at an investigative hearing by the House Committee on Power...
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PDP Will Not Participate In Edo State Local Government Council Election
By Ikhili Monday EBALU, Benin City
The Edo State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said the party will not participate in the Edo State Local Government Council Election following a case instituted by the party to...
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Political parties that fail to embrace internal democracy doomed- Dogara
By Aaron Ossai, Abuja
The Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara has said that any political party that fails to embrace and implement reforms to institute internal democracy risk extinction.
He said in an attempt to either capture or...
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Striking Rubber Research Institute workers Protest Government’s Silence
By Ikhili Monday EBALU, Benin City
Workers of Rubber Research Institute of Nigeria, Iyanomo, Edo State, under the aegis of Non Academic Staff Union (NASU) and Academic Staff Union of Research Institutes (ASURI) have held a peaceful demonstration to press...
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Bauchi records only 206 leprosy cases in 2017
By Sule Aliyui, Bauchi
The Bauchi State Agency for the Control of HIV /AIDS, tuberculosis, leprosy and Malaria (BACATMA) has disclosed that only 206 leprosy cases were recorded in 2017 in the state which represents 0.3 per 10, 000...
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2019: Ekweremadu Tasks Buhari on Free, Fair, and Credible Elections
By Aaron Ossai
The Deputy president of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari, to ensure his administration not only conducts a credible, free and fair election next year, but also be prepared to accept...
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Dictatorial Tendencies, Nepotism Endangering African Democracies – Ekweremadu
By Aaron Ossai
The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has warned that democracy will be highly imperiled and transmute to civilian dictatorship without respect for key institutions of democracy by African leaders.
He decried the widespread...
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Ekiti records 20,000 increase in pry school enrolment in 2 years, says Gov. Fayemi
Gov. Kayode Fayemi has restated the readiness of his administration to collaborate with the Federal Government and...
Health
COVID-19: NCDC registers 1,301 new Infections
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 1,301 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total...
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ASUU, Ebonyi Government’s meeting ends in deadlock
The meeting to resolve the impasse between the delegation of the Academic Staff Union of Nigeria Universities...
Sport
Tiger Woods has another back surgery
Golf star Tiger Woods has had another back operation and will skip at least two events.
But...
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Zamfara is not supporting bandits — Commissioner
The Zamfara Government has denied an online media report that it gave Hilux trucks to “repentant bandits’’ in the state.