Lagos State Police Command Press Release. Attention of the Lagos State Police Command has been drawn to a newspaper publication with the above caption which appeared on page 21 of the Friday, August 13, 2021 edition of the New Telegraph. Read more…
Month: August 2021
A federal high court in Abuja on Thursday refused to grant an ex-parte application seeking to restrain the Nigeria Police and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) from arresting and extraditing suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP Abba Kyari. Read more…
The Anambra State Government has distributed about 500,000 cocoa seedlings to different categories of farmers to boost cocoa production in the state. The government also provided plantain suckers to farmers who have an interest in plantain farming. Governor Willie Obiano, Read more…
By Johnbosco Agbakwuru ABUJA -MINISTER of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, yesterday briefed President Muhammadu Buhari on why the government invoked the “no work, no pay” policy against the striking resident doctors. The resident doctors on the aegis of Read more…
The All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, yesterday, commended the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for publishing the name of Prof. Chukwuma Charles Soludo and Dr. Onyekachikwu Gilbert Ibezim as the governorship and deputy governorship candidates of the party respectively for Read more…
Abduct eight Islamic school pupils, teacherGunmen, suspected to be bandits, yesterday ambushed and killed two Niger Republic military officers in Jibia Local Government Area of Katsina State. The incident allegedly occurred late Tuesday night, when the gunmen crossed over from Read more…
No fewer than six persons were on Tuesday night, killed by gunmen suspected to be Fulani militia. The gunmen reportedly stormed the communities at the wee hours of the night and started shooting sporadically. Secretary General of the Irigwe Association Read more…
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed says Nigeria is not a failed state and cannot go the way of Afghanistan where the terrorist group has taken the rein of power. The minister stated this in Washington DC Read more…
As the Afghan government collapsed this week in Kabul and the United States scrambled to speed up its evacuation effort, hundreds of Russian armored vehicles and artillery pieces were clearly visible hundreds of miles away, on the border with Tajikistan. Read more…
19 Aug, 2021 10:57 Taliban fighter (C) is seen surrounded by locals at Pul-e-Khumri on August 11, 2021 after Taliban captured Pul-e-Khumri, the capital of Baghlan province about 200 kms north of Kabul. Russia has said it has no intention Read more…
Ahmad Massoud, whose father was a leading figure in the US-backed anti-Soviet insurgency in Afghanistan, wants from Washington what his dad had – weapons for a war against the Taliban. The pitch was published by Massoud in The Washington Post, where a Read more…
President Muhammadu Buhari has commenced implementation of the newly signed Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) by approving a steering committee to oversee the process. The steering committee is headed by the Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva. Other members are Read more…