Nigeria Police Service Commission Chairman (PSC), Dr Solomon Arase and Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr. Usman Baba, have expressed commitment to promote harmonious working relationship between the commission and police force. This commitment was made when the IGP paid a courtesy call on the PSC chairman on Monday in Abuja, according to the News Agency of Nigeria. Arase, while …
Read More »The Federal Government says it has concluded plans to launch the Digital Postcode system in Nigeria in June 2023. It said the digitised Postcode would enhance the seamless issuance of driver’s licenses, National Identity Management number, international passport, banking services and other address verification services. The Postmaster General of the Federation/CEO, NIPOST, Adeyemi Sunday Adepoju disclosed this at the end …
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President Muhammadu Buhari has assented to 16 bills that have altered some provisions of the 1999 Constitution, which has become further amended. This is the fifth in a series of piecemeal efforts at curing the varied ills of this supreme body of national legislation since the Fourth Republic began over two decades ago. Calls for it to be completely jettisoned …
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) recently issued arrest warrants against Russian President, Vladimir Putin and a member of Putin’s government, Children’s Rights commissioner, Maria Lvova-Belova, who is the official at the centre of the alleged unlawful deportation of thousands of Ukrainian children to Russia. This is the first warrant issued by ICC for crimes committed in Russia-Ukraine war and a rare case issued …
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Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Faruk Yahaya, has warned that neither IPOB, ESN nor any other group, groups or individuals should threaten the integrity of the nation as enshrined in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He noted that “the peaceful conduct of the 2023 general elections across the country, including in the South-East, despite the sense …
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On Saturday, a telephone conversation between Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, and David Oyedepo, the founder of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, was leaked to the public by People’s Gazette. In the audio clip, Mr Obi asked Mr Oyedepo to help spread his message to Christians in the South-west and parts of North-central. Addressing him as “daddy”, …
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Heavily-armed policemen on Monday blocked the entrance of the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, following a protest by the Peoples Democratic Party members. Over 1000 members of the party and their supporters had stormed the INEC office along Aba Road in Port Harcourt, demanding the commission to allow a joint inspection of election …
Read More »We asked Ryle about the impact of ICIJ’s reporting over the past 10 years, and how it has changed his life and the lives of others around the globe. April 3 marks a double anniversary in ICIJ’s calendar: while some may know it as the date the Panama Papers exploded on front pages and TV screens around the world in 2016, it’s …
Read More »Director of Research at the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR), Prof. Oliver Ezechi, has said 28 women die daily of cervical cancer in the country. Addressing an event to check the scourge among girls and women yesterday in Lagos, Ezechi identified vaccination gaps, poor awareness, cultural issues and screening as some of the challenges militating against successful containment of …
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The Benue State Government has secured an N84 billion debt cancellation deal from the Federal Government to drastically reduce the overall debt burden of the state. The Benue State Commissioner of Finance, Mr. David Olofu who made this known Monday at the end of State Executive Council, SEC, meeting presided over by Governor Samuel Ortom in Makurdi said the feat …
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