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Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba has ordered the immediate distribution of Police Uniforms, Kits and accoutrements which the Force recently procured, to various Zones, Commands and Formations in the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) for onward issuance to personnel of the Force. The resuscitation of the quarterly issuance of uniforms and other accoutrements to members of the Inspectorate, …

BENIN — Edo technology community has showcased their latest inventions, including an automatic fingerprint machine and a locally-made modular refinery, among others at the maiden edition of the Edo Technology and Innovation Expo. The expo was organised by the state government to showcase some of the cutting-edge inventions by the state’s tech community. It was also designed to select some …

President Muhammadu Buhari has advised that his party, APC, should pick its next national chairman by consensus rather than the aspirants challenging themselves in a primary election. Mr Buhari was quoted as saying this by the chairman of the APC governors’ forum, Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State, at the State House, Abuja. Mr Bagudu spoke Tuesday after he and other APC …

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, was founded in 1978 principally to demand the rights of academic staff in Federal and state universities in the country. In the exercise of this mandate, the Union had never shied away from embarking on warning and indefinite strike actions or even acting as a watchdog against corruption by its members who hold …

Barely 24-hours after a federal judge declined to grant bail to the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, another judge has compounded his woes by approving a request by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to detain Mr Kyari and six others for two weeks. The NDLEA is investigating Mr Kyari, a suspended deputy commissioner of police; and some other …

The Federal Ministry of Finance Headquarters located in the Central Area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, is currently on fire. The details of the inferno as of the time of filing this report are sketchy. However, our correspondent learnt that firefighters had arrived at the scene to extinguish the fire. The Spokesperson of the Federal Fire Service, Abraham Paul, …

But the governor said the disagreement was “not borne out of any agenda or selfishness.” “It is just a realistic proposition to avoid us violating any laws or putting our party structures of elected candidates in danger. “So yes, there was (were) differences in opinion about timing. Some of us are saying the Constitution allows us to have convention even …

• Commission promises intervention, commends NIN-SIM exercise efforts Telecommunications operators have beckoned on the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to find lasting solutions to challenges plaguing the sector.  According to them, these challenges have slowed both the combined and individual expansion drive in the country.The service providers listed the challenges to include, willful and inadvertent fibre cuts; theft of telecoms equipment, non-availability …

When last week I wrote in this space that Nigeria is in trouble, it was not so much an indictment of the Muhammadu Buhari-led government as some might think as it was a call for the government of the day and the rest of us Nigerians to own and acknowledge the crisis we are in as one that cannot be …

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Moscow was ready to look for “diplomatic solutions” amid raging tensions with the West over Ukraine but stressed that the country’s interests were non-negotiable. “Our country is always open for direct and honest dialogue, for the search for diplomatic solutions to the most complex problems,” Putin said in a video address to mark …