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African countries’ Drug Law Enforcement Agencies. The Head of Public Affairs, Mr Jonah Achema, who disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja, said that Abdallah’s emergence was a testimony to the performance-driven leadership of the agency. Achema added that NDLEA was also widely regarded as a leading light …

The Executive chairman, Udu Local Government Area Council, Jite Brown, has denied declaring a Dusk-to-Dawn curfew in some communities in the Local Government Area,saying that they only held a security meeting with stakeholders to draw up a road map to quell the rising level of insecurity in some communities in …

Accompanied by the Executive Director of Projects, Hon Daniel Mayuku, Executive Director of Finance and Administration, Hon John Nani, Executive Director Statistics, Shedrack Agedigha and Hon Leonard Anoka, amongst others, the managing Director of the Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission, DESOPADEC, Askia Ogieh, commissioned a 6-classroom block with …

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Charles Idahosa, on Tuesday warned that any attempt by the party’s National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, to circumvent the 2020 re-election bid of Governor Godwin Obaseki may spell doom for the APC in Edo State and the South- South region. Idahosa who was a …

The Federal Government has offered for subscription by auction N150 billion worth of bonds in its Sept. 25 auction, the Debt Management Office (DMO) said. The offer circular obtained from its website on Tuesday in Abuja, stated that it would sell N45 billion of a five year re-opening issue maturing …

American billionaire and philanthropist, Bill Gates, has said that many countries that were not as wealthy as Nigeria had better health care systems, adding that Nigeria has one of the lowest domestic revenues at just six per cent of GDP compared to 15 per cent in some other countries. This, …

Crisis is brewing in the family of the late king of Ogwashi-Uku, Prof. Chukwuka Okonjo, in Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta State, following the unauthorised announcement of the death of the town’s 91-year-old monarch, Obi Chukuka Okonjo, and subsequently naming of a successor allegedly by his daughter and …

The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit has said the officer who initiated the request to the banks for senators and Judicial memnbers bank details was unacquainted with the fact that the NFIU already had access to such information through its database, saying that the Senate President, the Speaker of the House …

Cross River State Governor Ben Ayade has allegedly refused to recognise workers employed by Deputy Governor, Professor Ivara Esu in March this year, a situation that has caused unease among civil servants in the state. It was alleged that Ayade claimed not to have authorised the employment of about 34 …

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday replaced the Economic Management Team (EMT) headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo with an Economic Advisory Council (EAC). The new EAC, which reports directly to the president, will be chaired by an economist, Prof. Doyin Salami. Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity Femi Adesina in …