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The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, has ordered senior officers in the South-East and the South-South geopolitical zones to immediately disarm members of the Indigenous People of Biafra. The IG said this in a statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, Olabisi Kolawole, while reacting to the killing of policemen by some pro-Biafran activists on Monday. The statement read, …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has scheduled the Continous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise for Edo and Ondo States from Wednesday, June 22 to Sunday, June 26 this year. According to the Commission’s Decision Extract issued on May 26 ,this year, signed by the Director, Commission’s Secretariat, Ishaku A. Gali, and made available to newsmen in Abuja yesterday,the Commission has …

President Muhammadu Buhari will this week make his first visit as president to Nigeria’s oil-producing south, which has been riven by an upsurge in violence from militants, his office said on Tuesday. Attacks on pipelines and other infrastructure have cut Nigeria’s oil production to some 1.4 million barrels per day, exacerbating revenue shortfalls caused by the global slump in crude …

The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed into second reading a bill seeking to ensure the provision of loans for students for the pursuit of their education to higher levels. The House leader, Hon Femi Gbajabiamila, who sponsored the bill, disclosed that it intended to provide easy access to higher education for Nigerians by the provision of loans from the …

Daylen Head’s older sister found a sawn-off shotgun in a bedroom closet. While mimicking a video game, prosecutors say, she shot her nine-year-old brother dead. Frankie Navarrette, 11, discovered his father’s loaded shotgun and shot himself in the buttocks. He survived. Mariah Davis, five, discovered a handgun under a pillow in her grandparents’ room. She died. According to the Wayne …

By Eranga Isaac Expanded Special Project for Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases will strengthen national programmes and help secure sustainable financing to combat diseases of poverty GENEVA – The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Regional Office for Africa (AFRO) on May 23, 2016 launched a major new partnership to help African countries reduce the burden of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The Expanded Special …

The South-east and South-south regions of the country dissolved into a state of anarchy yesterday when thousands of protesters clashed with security forces in Anambra, Imo, Enugu, Abia, Delta, Cross River and Ebonyi States, leading to the deaths of dozens of people, including three policemen, several sustaining injuries, and the arrest of scores of protesters in all the states where …

A terracotta figurative sculpture that was repatriated after it was intercepted in France while in transit from Togo to the United States in 2008 has been officially returned by French Government “I will like to thank the French Ambassador specially for his country’s show of support in our fight against illicit trafficking of cultural goods and their untiring efforts at …

Among thousands of blue-collar bikers wearing patches that called Jane Fonda a traitor, Donald Trump was received rapturously. On the Sunday of the Memorial Day weekend, the Republican presidential nominee attended the Rolling Thunder rally, a huge gathering on the National Mall in Washington DC. Speaking to a crowd that spilled down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, he was …

The Senate is currently battling to resolve the sharp disagreement between the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mallam Abubakar Malami, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over the Money Laundering Prohibition (Amendment) Bill sent to the National Assembly in January by President Muhammadu Buhari. Tagged an ‘Act to Repeal the Money Laundering (Prevention …