Nigeria
1 Mar
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Oyo/Osun Command, has seized 53 sacks of fake pharmaceutical drugs worth N1.7 billion in Duty Paid Value.Area Controller, Ben Oramalugo, who disclosed this while briefing newsmen yesterday
1 Mar
Enugu State government has ordered a fresh election for the Igweship stool of Akama Oghe community in Ezeagu Local Council of the state. The stool is being contested by Ozo Christian Akpata and Onyeka Ofodile.
1 Mar
Police operatives in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have arrested three suspects in connection with car theft and recovered nine vehicles. The command also nabbed fake dollar note racketeers.
1 Mar
The wife of the President, Oluremi Tinubu, yesterday, flagged off the Renewed Hope Initiative for the South East, aiming to support 20 smallholder women farmers with N500,000 each.
1 Mar
Traders at the popular Computer Village Market, known for the sale of Information Communication Technology products, yesterday, decried the closure of the market during the inauguration of the first phase of the Red Line Mass Transit Rail project
1 Mar
The Senate, yesterday, recognised Kogi State as an oil producing state. The recognition followed a matter of personal explanation relating to the oil producing status of Kogi, through Order 42 of the Senate Standing ...
1 Mar
A Nigerian professor of Pharmacognosy from the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) and former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Maurice Iwu, has said that it is time for Nigerians to develop their natural medicines rather than importing them from abroad.
1 Mar
The police in Nasarawa State have arrested a corps member in Keffi over criminal trespass, impersonation, and forgery.The suspect: Ogeh Bethel Chibuife, was arrested during the three-week orientation exercise at the Magaji Dan Yamusa Orientation...
1 Mar
Worried by the rate youths nowadays indulge in drug abuse, the House of Representatives has asked the Ministry of Education to collaborate with the Ministry of Health to develop a mandatory drug test for secondary school students in Nigeria.
1 Mar
No fewer than 40 worshippers have been abducted by bandits in a mosque in Tsafe town, the headquarters of Tsafe Local Council of Zamfara State.A resident, Abubakar Tsafe, told newsmen that the bandits ...
1 Mar
Association of Community Pharmacists (ACP) has appealed to National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) to rescind the policy of collecting Expired Drug Destruction Fee
1 Mar
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s nominee for appointment into the Board of Directors of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Urum Kalu-Eke, has rejected the appointment. He is among the five persons nominated for appointment.
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President Bola Tinubu has called on African countries to conscientiously tackle poverty, inequality and social injustice as root causes of terrorism. He equally canvassed the establishment of a regional counter-terrorism centre...
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Nigeria Police Force (NPF) is grappling with a significant housing shortage for its members across all ranks, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, has disclosed.
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As the world marks International Mother Earth, instituted by United Nations, ECO2RUPPERS Africa has unfolded measures aimed at saving Nigeria and other African countries the sum of $70 billion from the impact of plastic pollution.
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Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori, yesterday, lamented the sorry state of Niger Delta, saying the region is currently considered the most polluted in the world due to the high amount of spills.
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The Bayelsa State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal has reserved judgment in a petition filed by the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Timipre Sylvia, against the declaration of Douye Diri as the governor of the state in the November 2023 election.
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Nigerian insurance companies may join banks soon to source for fresh funds to inject into the industry as a staunch advocate of the muted recapitalisation, Olusegun Omosehin, assumes office soon as the new Commissioner for Insurance and Chief Executive Officer of the National Insurance Commission
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All hopes of a speedy reorganisation of the security architecture of the country were dampened yesterday as the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, said Nigeria is not mature to operate state governments-controlled police despite...
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Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has asked the military to always go after killers of security operatives but spare the communities where the killings took place.
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Afenifere, yesterday, described the call for the exit of Yoruba from Nigeria as undesirable, self-serving and unnecessary.In a statement, the National Publicity Secretary, Jare Ajayi, maintained that the problems confronting Yorubaland and Nigeria
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The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has cracked down a fake cosmetics operation at the Balogun Trade Fair Gate in Lagos.
In a series of post via the agency’s official X account..