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Benue Needs N500m Monthly For Feeding Of Two Million IDPs – SEMA
The Benue State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, weekend disclosed that the state needs approximately N500million monthly to provide the basic needs of its close to two million Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs. The Executive Secretary of Benue SEMA, Dr. Emmanuel Shior who made the disclosure in Makurdi while flagging off the monthly distribution of food and non-food items to the official...
Fire Outbreak: Aba Tailors Urge Ikpeazu For Assistance
Fashion designers along Jubilee road in Aba, Abia State, have urged the state government led by Governor Okezie Ikpeazu to assist them resume business activities after they lost machines and fabrics worth millions of Naira in a fire incident which gutted their workshops. The inferno which occurred Wednesday night at the Asa House in the area destroyed 15 industrial sewing...
National Census Will Help In Fighting Insecurity — Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday said the national census scheduled for next year will help in the fight against insecurity. He made the comment at a national stakeholders’ summit on the 2023 Population and Housing Census held at the State House in Abuja, according to a statement signed by presidential spokesperson Femi Adesina. The President said the deployment of digital technology...
Malami Reveals How Nigeria Recovered N3.2bn Loot Within A Year
The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has said Nigeria has recovered over N3.2bn (£6,324,627.66) of stolen monies from various jurisdictions globally from March 2021 to May 2022. He said this Thursday while featuring at the 46th Session of the State House Briefing organised by the Presidential Communications Team at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He said the...
SON Inaugurates Committee To Promote Education Management Standard
The Standards Organisation of Nigeria has inaugurated the National Technical Committee for the adoption and certification of education management standards. This was made known to journalists in Abuja on Wednesday during the inauguration of the Committee. The Director General of SON, Farouk Salim, who was represented by the Director of training services in the organisation, Timothy Abner, stressed the need for...
Stop Killing Innocent Citizens Claiming You’ve Killed ESN, IPOB Warns Okowa
The Indigenous People of Biafra has threatened the vice-presidential ambition of the Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, over alleged killings in the state. This was as the group reiterated that it was not a terrorist organisation, adding that the recent United Nations’ pronouncement that it was a peaceful movement buttressed the need to treat its members as non-criminals. IPOB’s Director of...
Nnamdi Kanu Remains Our Leader, Can’t Be Changed — IPOB
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has said that Nnamdi Kanu remains its leader while Chika Edoziem is the head of the directorate of state of the group. IPOB stated this to debunk a report in some section of the media that Kanu has been replaced...
NYSC Warns Corps Members Against Being Involved In Local Politics
The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, Brigadier General Mohammed Fadah, has expressed zero tolerance for corps members’ involvement in local politics. Fadah made this disclosure in Gombe State on Tuesday during the batch B strea...
Nigeria Has No Justice — Gunmi
Renowned Muslim cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has criticised political leadership in Nigeria, saying the nation has a weak justice system. Gumi made the remark while speaking at a peace building symposium organised in Maiduguri as part of initiatives to ...
Roads, Streets Named After Colonialists Must Be Renamed – Chief Obono-Obla
Former presidential aide, Chief Okoi Obono-Obla has canvassed the re-christening of roads, streets and boulevards in State capitals and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, after Nigerians and Africans who have been outstanding. He said that no stre...
