The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) deported 64 irregular immigrants and repatriated 1,132 others in 2020, according to the 2020 Annual Report of the agency released on Tuesday. The Assistant Comptroller-General, Planning, Research and Statistics, Ms Bimbola Ojo presented the report at…
Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai has reiterated his administration’s stance not to negotiate with bandits, saying that his job as Governor is to enforce the law and help prosecute people who commit offences. El-Rufai restated his government’s position during an…
Vacates proposed suspension of DMBs rom USSD the outcome of the meeting between the CBN, NCC, deposit money banks and mobile network operators (MNOs) over a protracted dispute concerning appropriate pricing for the USSD pricing model for financial services which…
By Tobi Adetunji. An Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State, on Tuesday, ordered that aalleged notorious Fulani warlord in Ibarapaland, Abdullahi Wakili, 70, be remanded in a correctional facility. The police charged Wakili alongside his sons Abu,…
By Ayo Fadimu The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has temporarily closed the Murtala Mohammed International Airport E-Finger departure screening point to carry out some routine maintenance on the screening machine. General Manager, Corporate Affairs Mrs Henrietta Yakubu, of…
…As Nigeria ranks 19th globally …Imo records highest rate of unemployment By Kayode Tokede, Adetunji Tobi, Sola Olajide & Joshua Elekwachi, Abuja Stakeholders have blamed insecurity, infrastructure, among others to 33.3 per cent in fourth quarter of (Q4) 2020 unemployment…
The Federal Government has described the reported formation of Biafra Customary Government by Asari Dokubo as a “theatre of the absurd by a joker seeking attention.” Speaking with our Correspondent on the development in Lagos on Monday, the Minister of…
The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says it has collected water samples and flavour products for laboratory analysis, following the outbreak of strange infectious disease in Kano metropolis. The State Coordinator of the agency, Mr Shaba…
…Warns parents to show interest in children Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Monday, approved a 21-year jail term for convicted cultists in the state. Sanwo-Olu approved the jail term as he signed the bill for the Prohibition of Unlawful…
Bankole Taiwo, Abeokuta Gunmen suspected to be bandits on Sunday night kidnapped two female students of the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ayetoro Campus, Ayetoro, Yewa North Local Government Area of Ogun State. Our Correspondent reliably gathered that their abduction occurred at…
