FG targets 90% broadband penetration by 2023
The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, has said the Federal Government hopes to achieve 90 per cent broadband penetration in the country by 2023. Pantami said this on Thursday...
View ArticlePresidency berates ex-US envoy, magazine over ‘Nigeria is failing’ report
THE Presidency on Thursday knocked an American magazine of international relations and US foreign policy, Foreign Affairs, for publishing what it called a facts-shifting article on Nigeria. It said...
View ArticleEbonyi activist writes IG, says life under threat
A human rights activist based in Ebonyi State, Anyigor Methuselah, has petitioned the acting Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, over an alleged threat to his life by some political associates of...
View ArticlePolice ambush invading bandits in Katsina, kill five
FIVE bandits were confirmed killed on Wednesday evening during an encounter between their gang and the police in Kurfi Local Government Area of Katsina state. Sources revealed that the bandits...
View ArticleFG paying lip service to judiciary autonomy, alleges Wike
The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has accused the Federal Government of playing politics with judicial autonomy in total disregard to the provisions of the constitution. The governor made the...
View ArticleCommand arrests man over burning of Imo station
The Imo State Police Command on Thursday said it arrested one of the persons who allegedly attacked the Orji Divisional Police Headquarters. A spokesperson for the police in the state, Bala Elkana,...
View ArticleReps demand end to Imo extrajudicial killings
Some members of the House of Representatives from Imo State have decried the alleged extrajudicial killings, rights violation and destruction of property by security operatives following the murder of...
View ArticleTravellers lament attacks as pirates kill two in Rivers waterways
Two persons have been reportedly killed after suspected pirates attacked a passenger boat travelling in Ke community, in the Degema Local Government Area of Rivers State. This is coming on the heels of...
View ArticleExceptional Nigerians can’t perform in current system – Obasanjo
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Thursday said some prominent Nigerians leading international organisations would have been shackled by the country’s system if they were working in the country....
View ArticleFG set to implement Buhari’s promise on teachers’ salaries
THE Federal Government has set up different committees with the mandate to come up with the modalities for the implementation of a new salary scale the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari...
View ArticleAkpabio visits Tompolo over ex-warlord’s threat against oil facilities
Scores of Urhobo youths, under the aegis of the Urhobo Progress Union Youth Wing, on Thursday, shut down the Delta State office of the Niger Delta Development Commission located in the Warri South...
View ArticleCAN advocates removal of immunity for President, deputy, govs
The Christian Association of Nigeria on Thursday called on the National Assembly to amend Section 308 of the 1999 Constitution, which provides immunity for the President, vice-president, governors and...
View ArticleJoining APC generating concern because it’s unexpected – Ayade
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Thursday received the Governor of Cross River State, Ben Ayade, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting was held about two weeks after...
View ArticleOhanaeze fumes as ex-Buhari aide expresses anti-Igbo sentiment
THE apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has dismissed as childish a statement credited to a former Special Assistant to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), on...
View ArticleImo PDP demands Uzodimma’s resignation over rising insecurity
Chidiebube Okeoma, Owerri THE Imo state Chapter of the People Democratic Party, on Thursday, demanded the resignation of the state Governor, Hope Uzodinma, over the rising insecurity in the state....
View ArticleOsun bank robbers missed bullion van conveying cash –Source
The armed robbers who attacked branches of First Bank and Access Bank in Apomu and Ikire areas of Osun State on Wednesday targeted a bullion van bringing cash to the banks, PUNCH Metro has learnt. It...
View ArticleForeign stock investors withdraw N99.94bn in four months
A total of N99.94bn was pulled out by foreign investors from the Nigerian stock market in the first four months of this year as foreign involvement plunged to a four-year low in April. The foreign...
View ArticleIT projects saved Nigeria over N22.4bn – Pantami
The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, has said that the Information Technology sector has saved the country over N22.4bn through measures created to curtail corruption. He...
View ArticleOrtom in Oyo, inaugurates road, rebukes APC for poor governance
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, said on Thursday that the All Progressives Congress government led by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), had failed Nigerians. Ortom, who was the...
View ArticleLaws shouldn’t be made to hinder technology, elections – INEC
The Independent National Electoral Commission on Thursday said voter enrolment software would be introduced to recapture as much fingerprints as possible in the 2023 general elections. While...
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