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Jean Gough, Country Director, United Nations International Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said that no fewer than 10.5 million Nigerian children are out of school. Gough stated this on Tuesday in Bauchi while exchanging views with Gov. Mohammed Abubakar of Bauchi State at the Government House. She said that UNICEF was collaborating with some stakeholders to strengthen the newly-introduced Quranic School …

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday expressed his desire to revisit the recent liquidation of the Nigerian Telecommunications Limited and its subsidiary, Mobile Telecommunications Limited. The President made his position known when officials of the Ministry of Communication Technology took their turn to brief him of their ministry’s activities at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Dr. Tunji Olaopa, …

The Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, has explained that the state government opted for the $75m World Bank facility as an inevitable option, having been allegedly denied its statutory allocations by the Peoples Democratic Party which he accused of bleeding the nation’s “treasury dry.” Oshiomhole, who spoke to journalists on Sunday on the recent approval of the loan by the …

TWO years after the last recruitment by the Nigeria Police Force, President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday unveiled Federal Government’s plans to recruit fresh 10,000 policemen. Buhari, who spoke at the National Security Summit on Community Partnership Approach to Internal Security and Crime Management, organised by the police in Abuja, said the government would also establish a well-trained and equipped anti-terrorism …

President Muhammadu Buhari has accepted the resignation of the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Alhaji Dikko Abdullahi. With the acceptance, Abdullahi is expected to proceed on voluntary retirement from Tuesday (today). He had earlier written a letter dated August 3 to the President in which he notified Buhari of his desire to proceed on voluntary retirement from Tuesday. Buhari’s …

ABUJA — The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, yesterday, defied the directive by the Senate to abolish the Fixed Charges, FC, introduced by the commission, noting that there is nothing illegal about the charges. Chairman of NERC, Dr. Sam Amadi, who spoke against the background of the motion by members of the red chamber, maintained that the electricity fixed charges …

Indication have emerged that the United States’ government is sending arms to the Nigerian military in its efforts to crush Boko Haram. Facts that the US is sending arms to Nigeria came on the heels of the US Ambassador to Nigeria, James Entwistle’s revelation in an interview with one of our correspondents that the US government never placed arms embargo …

MINNA— TWENTY-TWO years after annulling the June 12, 1993 presidential elections, former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd), yesterday, said he still misses the winner of the historic polls, late Chief Moshood Abiola, who died in government detention in 1998. To show how he sorely miss his erstwhile friend, Babangida, who turned 74 today, said last week he searched for …

The Committee of the Nigerian Army entrusted with the responsibility of reviewing the disciplinary cases of over 2,000 soldiers will begin sitting at the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, on Monday (today). The committee is expected to sit for about three weeks to review all disciplinary cases emanating from the ongoing counter -insurgency operation in the North-East. It was learnt that …

The National Security Adviser, Maj. Gen. Babagana Monguno(retd.), four Service Chiefs and the Inspector General of Police on Friday in Maiduguri promised to intensify efforts at ending the Boko Haram menace in the North-East. Monguno, who led other service chiefs – Gen. Abayomi Olonishakin (Defence), Lt.-Gen Tukur Buratai (Army), Air Marshal Sadiq Abubakar (Air Force) and Inspector General of Police, …