The Federal High Court in Abuja has granted bail to the former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh (retd), to the tune of N2billion. Badeh is facing trial over allegation that he diverted about N3.9billion from accounts of the Nigerian Air Force within 2013. In a ruling this …
Read More »Police spends N600m on Dogs, says IG
The Inspector-General of Police (IG), Mr Solomon Arase, has said the Nigeria Police Force had spent over N600 million on the procurement and maintenance of foreign dogs in the last few years. Arase made the disclosure at the inauguration of the Police Dog Breeding Centre and Ultra Modern Mounted Troop …
Read More »Nigeria loses $1.5 bn annually to vitamin, mineral deficiencies, says World Bank
A World Bank Specialist on Welfare Economics, Prof. Foluso Okunmadewa says Nigeria loses 1.5 billion dollars in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) annually to vitamin and mineral deficiencies. Okunmadewa said this at the Stakeholders’ Dialogue on the reviewed Draft National Policy on Food and Nutrition (NPFN) by the Federal Ministry of …
Read More »Breaking News: NECO releases Nov/Dec 2015 results
The National Examinations Council (NECO), has released the results of the November/December 2015 Senior School Certificate Examinations. Prof. Abdulrashid Garba, NECO’s Registrar and Chief Executive, disclosed this on Wednesday in Minna while addressing newsmen. He said that a total of 50,060 candidates registered, out of which 47,507 sat for English …
Read More »South African gay singer dies of anal cancer
36-year-old gay South African singer, Koyo Bala, who is HIV positive has died at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, after battling with anal cancer for two years. Koyo Bala was part of a pop gay group known as 3-Sum made up of Bala‚ Amstel Maboa and the late Jeff …
Read More »Lekki Collapsed Building:Death toll reaches 30, as Police arrests contractor
The Police in Lagos have arrested the contractor who is handling the collapsed five storey building in Lekki area of the state. The Lagos State Police Spokesperson, SP Oladapo Badmus, who made the disclosure to the News agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Lagos, did not disclose where he …
Read More »We’ve not unbundled NNPC,says Kachikwu
Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu has said government has not unbundled the Nigeria National Petroleum Cooperation, NNPC yet. Explaining the development at the oil sector in an interview with State House correspondents after the meeting of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, the …
Read More »Blackout, fuel crisis loom as workers shut down NNPC
Nigeria is on the verge of another fuel crisis and a nationwide blackout of unimaginable proportion as workers of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Wednesday, shut down the activities of the corporation nationwide over the unbundling exercise. The workers, under the aegis of the Petroleum and Natural Gas …
Read More »Breaking: Reps take over Kogi Assembly
The House of Representatives on Wednesday, took over the functions of the Kogi State House of Assembly over the crisis that engulfed the assembly in the last one month. This is even as it called on the Inspector General of Police Solomon Arase to immediately seal off the assembly since …
Read More »Death toll in Lagos building collapse now 22
Twenty-two people have now died in the collapse of a five-storey building under construction in an upmarket area of Nigeria’s biggest city Lagos, a rescue official said Wednesday. “We recovered four more bodies today when we resumed operations, bringing the total death toll so far to 22,” Ibrahim Farinloye, from …
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