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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s caucus in the House of Representatives has called on Nigerians to urge their representatives in the National Assembly to begin the impeachment process against President Muhammadu Buhari for failing to secure the lives and properties of Nigerians. The lawmakers caucus stated this in a statement by its leader, Kingsley Chinda, on Sunday evening. Mr Chinda was reacting …

The Niger Delta Development Commission was established in 2000 by the Act 2000 No. 6 of the Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, which repealed the Oil Mineral Producing Areas Commission Decree 1998. The Act was amended in the year 2017 with no significant addition or effect. The NDDC was set up as an interventionist agency with a clear mandate …

Leaders the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) will be meeting the federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) towards ending the eight-month-old strike by university lecturers. NANS said the aim of the meeting is finding a “centre point for amicable resolution” to ensure that students in public universities return to school. The newly elected NANS’ President, Sunday Asefon, …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has conducted recruitment examination for about 191,000 candidates that applied for jobs in the Nigeria Immigration Service and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC. Speaking with newsmen during the exercise on Monday in Abuja, the Secretary of the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board, Yakmut Alhassan Saleh, expressed delight …

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), will on Thursday address a joint session of the National Assembly on efforts being made by his regime to address the security challenges being witnessed across the country. The President’s Personal Assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie, disclosed this in a message she posted on her Twitter handle, @Laurestar, on Monday. The message …

The Managing Director of Tracology, Mr. Emmanuel Okena, has said that his firm partnered the Edo State Government on the installation of QR-code enabled payment tracking tools in houses in Edo State to improve accountability and plug leakages in the state’s revenue administration value chain. Okena, in a chat with journalists, said that the Tracology tracking device is patented in …

Nigerian Government has launched the transport support track under its MSME Survival Fund schemes for artisans and transporters. This initiative, the government said is in addition to the implementation of its Economic Sustainability Plan, (ESP) and in furtherance of its commitment to support small businesses to cushion the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The launch of the transport track …

In what seemed to be a swift response to tackling worsening insecurity in Edo State, Nigeria, the Police at  the weekend swooped on criminals and caught four Point Of Sale (POS) payment outlets armed robbers and thirty other suspected hardened bandits. A summary of suspects arrested by the Police reveals that twenty of them were nabbed for armed robbery, four …

Some APC governors recently held a private meeting with the ex-president in Abuja Former President Goodluck Jonathan has declined to rule out the possibility of him seeking election in 2023, as the 2023 general election draws nearer, There have been speculations that the All Progressives Congress (APC) was considering fielding Mr Jonathan in the next general election to serve a …

..Six dead bodies recovered, say police Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has condoled with the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Adamu, over the loss of some of the personnel that drowned while escorting voting materials for last Saturday’s senatorial bye-election in the state. The boat conveying the policemen was said to have capsized on its way to Oporoma, …