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Charges on entrenching professionalism, community-oriented policing Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba has ordered the immediate deployment of Commissioners of police to various commands across the country.   IGP Baba’s action followed the approval of his recommendation for the posting of Commissioners of Police to various State Commands by the Police Service Commission (PSC). The IGP tasked …

Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), on Wednesday, lashed out at the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), saying his alleged ‘sins’ against Nigerians would never be forgiven. The separatist group, in a statement by its Director of Media and Publicity, Emma Powerful, was reacting to Buhari’s recent appeal that “all those that I have hurt, I ask that they pardon …

Nigeria’s Federal Government said $1.2 million was spent to deploy 40 buses to evacuate at least 2,400 stranded Nigerians out of Sudan. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, disclosed this to State House correspondents shortly after the Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by the President Muhammadu Buhari at the Council Chambers of Aso Rock Villa, Abuja on Wednesday, …

Helena, Mont. (AP) — Montana Republican leaders will vote Wednesday on censuring or expelling lawmaker Zooey Zephyr, a transgender state representative who has been silenced in the House since last week after telling colleagues that if they voted for a bill to ban gender-affirming medical care for transgender children they would “have blood on their hands.” On Tuesday night, Zephyr …

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, on Wednesday, received a team of the Nigeria Air Force War College who were in Edo to understudy the state’s mining sector security management system, said to have repositioned its mining sector as the third most active in the country. The Commandant, Air Force War College Nigeria, Air Vice Marshall Abraham Adole, led the …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, on Wednesday, commissioned the Imose tablet Production Center at the Benin Technical College, where students will be equipped with the skills to produce and repair tablet computers. Obaseki was accompanied on the commissioning by the Secretary to State Government, Osarodion Ogie Esq.; Chief of Staff, Hon Osaigbovo Iyoha; Commissioner for Education, Dr. Joan Osa …

—Says some evacuations already done via sea—Diplomats to remain on ground to oversee exercise–Gives priority to childre, women—Spends $1.2m to hire buses The Federal Government on Wednesday, said that no Nigerian life has been lost in the war-torn Sudan, since the outbreak of the conflict on April 15 as a result of a power struggle between the leaders of Sudan’s …

Barring any unprecedented legal decisions, Bola Tinubu will be sworn in as Nigeria’s next president on 29 May 2023. This follows the 1st March declaration by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of his victory in the keenly contested February 25th election. The runners-up of the contest have already submitted petitions to the courts protesting this declaration and, in this election of many …

The Federal Executive Council (FEC), meeting, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, has approved Action Plan 2022 to 2026 for the promotion and protection of human rights in Nigeria, formulated by the stakeholders in ministries, departments and agencies.The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who briefed State House Correspondents, at the end of the meeting …

Ahead of the formal zoning of Presiding and Principal offices in both the Senate and the House of Representatives, the President-elect, Senator Bola Tinubu and his Vice, Senator Kashim Shettima will be holding a marathon meeting with leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC, outgoing Governors and Governors- elect of the party to brainstorm on the matter. The National Chairman …