Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina state has explained why kidnappers prefer carrying out their activities in Nigeria and not in Mali and other countries in the Sahelian region. In an interview on Channels Television, the Chairman of the North-West Governors’ Forum stressed that Nigeria is economically attractive to kidnappers …
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A Kano bride who faked her kidnap because she didn’t want her wedding to hold, has explained why she made the decision. It was reported earlier that Amina Gwani Danzarga was kidnapped 48 hours to her wedding, while on her way back from Dorayi quarters where she went to drop her exams card. …
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“If Nyako and people who think like him have any conscience left, let them raise a voice against the current politics of deceit, the mismanagement of our diversity and the scourge of insecurity now undermining the very basis of our national survival.” On 16th April 2014, the Northern Governors Forum …
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Ahmed Audi, the Commandant General of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, (NSCDC) has said that bandits in the country have international sponsors. Speaking at a training workshop for state commandants of the NSCDC in Abuja on Wednesday March 17, Audi stated that the asymmetric war witnessed in the country …
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Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo state has approved the appointment of Princess Catherine Oludunni Odu as the Secretary to the State Government. Before her appointment, Odu who holds degrees in Law, Sociology and Industrial Sociology from the University of Lagos, University of Benin and the University of Calabar respectively, was the …
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From Uche Usim, Abuja Nigeria’s total public debt has risen to N32.9 trillion as at December 31, 2020. The Debt Management Office, (DMO), which made the disclosure in a statement on Monday noted that the debt stock grew by N700 billion within three months from N32.2 trillion as at the end …
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC has dismissed the reported increase in Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, insisting that the ex-depot price of the commodity will not be increased in March. Relatedreading WHO Experts to Review AstraZeneca Vaccine as Germany, France, Italy, Spain Halt Rollout FG Sets Dates To Re-open Kano, …
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Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state has alleged that the Central Bank of Nigeria is playing politics with its agriculture development loans to states. Recounting how his state was denied of the loan by the apex bank while hosting the Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development Mustapha Shehuri on Monday March …
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President Muhammadu Buhari has applauded Mr. Amaju Pinnick, the President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), on his election into the FIFA Executive Council, the highest decision-making organ in world football. A congratulatory message signed by Femi Adesina, his Spokesman, said that the President believes that by dint of hardwork, …
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A 300-level student of the University of Nigeria Nsukka campus has allegedly committed suicide after his phone was seized by a lecturer and his exam script torn for cheating in an exam. The deceased student identified as Daniel Mba allegedly jumped to his death from the third floor of a storey …
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