Ad
Security operatives have eliminated scores of criminals linked to the outlawed Independent Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) and their Eastern Security Network (ESN) counterparts. The Defence Headquarters said in Abuja on Thursday that the criminals were eliminated in the Southeast and parts of the South-South. Acting Director, Defence Media Operation, Brig.-Gen. Bernard Onyeuko, told newsmen that…
June 17, 2021
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team on Thursday said that Nigeria’s economy was “gradually” recovering from the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. IMF disclosed this in its End-of-Mission statement from its headquarters in Washington, DC, on preliminary findings following virtual meetings by its staff teams with the Nigerian authorities from June 1 to 8.…
June 17, 2021
Dozens of female students have been reportedly abducted from the Federal Government Girls College Yawuri in Kebbi State. The bandits broke into the school premises on Thursday afternoon in police mufti. “They pointed a gun at the school guards and asked them for the girls’ hostels. “Before you know what was happening the bandits invaded…
June 17, 2021
The Defense Headquarters says the troops of Operation Hadin Kai have arrested one Mohammed Maki, who claims to be a Chadian, coordinating a kidnapping syndicate and terrorist groups in the north-eastern part of the country. The Acting Director, Defense Media Operation, Brig.-Gen. Bernard Onyeuko, disclosed this while briefing newsmen on the military operations across the…
June 17, 2021
Gunmen on Wednesday abducted four workers of a Chinese company handling the Lagos-Ibadan standard guage railway project and killed a policeman in Ogun. Mr Abimbola Oyeyemi, the State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), confirmed the incident in a statement on Thursday in Abeokuta. Oyeyemi said that the command had deployed tactical teams and are on…
June 17, 2021
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Sharada Ward, Municipal Local Government, Kano State, has suspended its representative at House of Representatives, Sha’aban Sharada, for alleged anti-party activities. Sharada is the Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on National Security and Intelligence. A statement signed by the party’s Ward Chairman, Alhaji Abdullahi Umar, in Kano on Wednesday,…
June 16, 2021
India’s information technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad hit out at Twitter on Wednesday, accusing it of not complying with new regulations for social media sites that came into effect last month. The new “intermediary guidelines” were aimed at regulating content on large social media platforms and messaging services like Facebook, WhatsApp, and Twitter that had…
June 16, 2021
Dangote Cement Plc has announced the successful issuance of N50 billion series 1 fixed rate senior unsecured bonds, under its new N300 billion multi-instrument issuance programme. Mr Michel Puchercos, Chief Executive Officer, Dangote Cement, disclosed this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos. Puchercos said the…
June 16, 2021
The Consulate General of Nigeria in New York, Amb. Lot Egopija, says no fewer than 1,328 passports produced at the mission are yet to be collected. Egopija told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in New York that the passports were among the backlogs cleared, but were yet to be collected by the applicants. The…
June 16, 2021
Advert
Ad
Security operatives have eliminated scores of criminals linked to the outlawed Independent Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) and their Eastern Security Network (ESN) counterparts. The Defence Headquarters said in Abuja on Thursday that the criminals were eliminated in the Southeast and parts of the South-South. Acting Director, Defence Media Operation, Brig.-Gen. Bernard Onyeuko, told newsmen that…
June 17, 2021
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team on Thursday said that Nigeria’s economy was “gradually” recovering from the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. IMF disclosed this in its End-of-Mission statement from its headquarters in Washington, DC, on preliminary findings following virtual meetings by its staff teams with the Nigerian authorities from June 1 to 8.…
June 17, 2021
Dozens of female students have been reportedly abducted from the Federal Government Girls College Yawuri in Kebbi State. The bandits broke into the school premises on Thursday afternoon in police mufti. “They pointed a gun at the school guards and asked them for the girls’ hostels. “Before you know what was happening the bandits invaded…
June 17, 2021
The Defense Headquarters says the troops of Operation Hadin Kai have arrested one Mohammed Maki, who claims to be a Chadian, coordinating a kidnapping syndicate and terrorist groups in the north-eastern part of the country. The Acting Director, Defense Media Operation, Brig.-Gen. Bernard Onyeuko, disclosed this while briefing newsmen on the military operations across the…
June 17, 2021
Gunmen on Wednesday abducted four workers of a Chinese company handling the Lagos-Ibadan standard guage railway project and killed a policeman in Ogun. Mr Abimbola Oyeyemi, the State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), confirmed the incident in a statement on Thursday in Abeokuta. Oyeyemi said that the command had deployed tactical teams and are on…
June 17, 2021
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Sharada Ward, Municipal Local Government, Kano State, has suspended its representative at House of Representatives, Sha’aban Sharada, for alleged anti-party activities. Sharada is the Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on National Security and Intelligence. A statement signed by the party’s Ward Chairman, Alhaji Abdullahi Umar, in Kano on Wednesday,…
June 16, 2021
India’s information technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad hit out at Twitter on Wednesday, accusing it of not complying with new regulations for social media sites that came into effect last month. The new “intermediary guidelines” were aimed at regulating content on large social media platforms and messaging services like Facebook, WhatsApp, and Twitter that had…
June 16, 2021
Dangote Cement Plc has announced the successful issuance of N50 billion series 1 fixed rate senior unsecured bonds, under its new N300 billion multi-instrument issuance programme. Mr Michel Puchercos, Chief Executive Officer, Dangote Cement, disclosed this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos. Puchercos said the…
June 16, 2021
The Consulate General of Nigeria in New York, Amb. Lot Egopija, says no fewer than 1,328 passports produced at the mission are yet to be collected. Egopija told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in New York that the passports were among the backlogs cleared, but were yet to be collected by the applicants. The…
June 16, 2021
