Category: News
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Experts counsel youths to engage in waste recycling for wealth
Some waste management experts have renewed calls on Nigerians, particularly youths, to see plastic wastes as a means of wealth creation, as they can easily be sourced within their environment. The experts made the call on Wednesday, in separate interviews with our correspondent in Lagos. They added that sustainable plastic waste management of non-degradable wastes…
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Islamic Group empowers 300 Muslims
By Steve Oni, Ilorin No fewer than 300 people in Osun state have benefitted from the welfare support programme of a Muslim Dawah Organisation under the aegis of Daaru-r-Rahmat Society during this Ramadan season. Items distributed to support the needy include food items, financial support, payment of house rents and hospital bills, among others. Speaking…
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Edo govt. begins work on flood control project – Official
The Edo government says it has appointed a contractor for the flood control project at Ughoha community in Esan South Local Government Area of the state, signaling the commencement of the project. Dr Tom Obaseki, the Project Coordinator, Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP), made this known on Wednesday at Ugboha, while introducing the…
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German Federal Intelligence Agency watching anti-lockdown radicals
Anti-lockdown radicals within the so-called Querdenken (Lateral Thinking) movement are to be monitored by the Federal German Domestic intelligence Services, the Interior Ministry said in Berlin on Wednesday. The decision allows the Agency for the Protection of the Constitution, as the domestic intelligence agency is known to collect information on persons identified as posing a…
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Insecurity: Kwara Assembly Asks Govt To Check Influx Of Destitute Persons Into Ilorin
By Steve Oni, Ilorin Kwara State House of Assembly has urged the state government to liaise with heads of security agencies in the state to check the influx of destitute persons into Ilorin, the state capital. Their influx into the state, the House of Assembly opined, constitutes security threat to the people of the state.…
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Fresh Crises Rock NDDC over N111 Billion Unaccounted Accruals
*** Pitch Stakeholders Against Akpabio.By: Isa”ac Thlama- Abuja. Fresh crisis may be brewing at the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, over the failure of it’s new interim administrator to account for a whooping N111,621,716,618.4, which accrued to the commission in the last four months.This is even as stakeholders have expressed fears that, the NDDC may…
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Plastic pollution: Expert urges govt. to employ plastic collectors
The Nigerian government has been called upon by environmentalist, Ms Oritsema Gemide, to empower and employ Nigerians as plastic collectors in order to curb plastic pollution. Gemide, a consultant at Bonnie Bio, a biodegradable materials company, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Lagos. According to…
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NERC gives reasons electricity tariff may increase in July
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has announced that another tariff review for Nigeria’s 11 power distribution companies would hold in July. It disclosed this in its notice of Minor and Extraordinary Review of Tariffs for Electricity Transmission and Distribution Companies on Monday. NatureNews reports that this development might lead to a rise in the…
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Security situation in Yobe calls for quick response, reassessment – Gov. Buni
Yobe Governor, Mai Mala Buni, on Tuesday said the security situation in the state generally needed quick response and reassessment. Buni made his position known during an emergency security meeting in Damaturu. “We thanked God for the relative peace we now enjoy in most parts of the state. “However, the sad events in Geidam calls…
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Kwara will develop local contents on various trade, says Gov’s aide
By Steve Oni, Ilorin Kwara state government has reiterated its commitment to the development of local contents on various trade, including agricultural produce. Senior Special Assistant to Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Community Intervention, Mr. Kayode Oyin-Zubair, stated this during a meeting with women potters at Dada (Okekele) in Ilorin East local government area of the…