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“The Iranian regime has a choice. Instead of being the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, it can put the Iranian people first.”Statement from the White House press secretary Forty years ago today, a crowd of college students broke into the housing complex at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, and took 66 Americans hostage, including 26 service members. Some …

Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice ANEEJ is set to engage internationally acclaimed asset Recovery expert, Aaron Bernstein, formerly Executive Director of the BOTA Foundation of Kazakhstan, to examine Civil Society role in recalibrating returned assets to alleviate poverty. Mr. Bernstein, an anti-corruption consultant for the World Bank’s Stolen Asset Recovery (StAR) Initiative and other organizations has worked with …

Special Adviser to the Edo State Governor on Political Matters, Edo-South, Hon. Osaigbovo Iyoha has cautioned the National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole on making false and defamatory allegations against him. The Governor’s aide said, in a statement on Monday, that he just returned from Police interrogations in Abuja as a result of the false …

Nigeria’s Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, has said the Ninth National Assembly will insist on accountability and transparency in the power sector, particularly in the application of funds proposed for it in the 2020 budget. Lawan stated this on Monday when the Managing Director of the Niger Delta Power Holding Company, Joseph Chiedu Ugbo, led a delegation on a visit to …

Oyo State Police Command has uncovered an illegal rehabilitation center at Olore Central Mosque in Ojo area of Ibadan and rescued over 200 inmates. The State Commissioner of Police, Mr Shina Olukolu, said while addressing journalists on Monday in Ibadan, that the illegal center was discovered following a tip off by an informant. According to the Vanguard, Olukolu said that …

The federal government has given fresh conditions to ECOWAS countries before reopening the borders. The Minister of Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Onyeama stated this on Monday at the end of a committee meeting held at the ministry. The minister maintained that goods imported into Nigerian market must be escorted directly from the ports of member states to the borders. He insisted …

President Muhammadu Buhari Monday in London signed the amended Deep Offshore bill into law. A statement by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, said the president after signing the bill, described today “as an important day for all Nigerians – but particularly the young generation.” Also in a series of tweets on his …

Plateau government has released N400 million to the state Water Board to lay pipes to connect new development areas in Jos-Bukuru metropolis to public water supply, the General Manager, Mr Lambert Gomzuk, has said. According to the Vanguard, Gomzuk told Newsmen in Jos on Sunday that the exercise had started in some parts of Utan, Zaramagnda. According to him, all …

Governor Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State has condemned critics of the ongoing efforts of President Muhammadu Buhari to attract more foreign investments into the country, saying he should be commended for his untiring efforts to boost the nation’s economy through massive influx of foreign capital. The governor made his position known when he fielded questions from the News Agency of …

About 22 million barrels of crude oil, amounting to 1.35bn was lost due to theft in the Niger Delta during the first quarter of 2019, according to Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki. Obaseki who bemoaned the incessant cases of oil theft in the region made the disclosure at the weekend when he received a delegation of National Executive Committee …