The Three-Day Diaspora Technical Exchange Programme sponsored by the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), has started in London, United Kingdom. The Programme has experts drawn from the African Foundation For Development (AFFORD), UK based consulting Organisation with firm bias on Diaspora-related issues.Meanwhile, Delegates from the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission
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The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Railway Corporation, Engr. Fidet Edetanlaen Okhiria has said the corporation is working to install anti-theft to safeguard railway equipment and check vandalism. Okhira commended security agencies, particularly the police for living up to expectations by arresting suspected vandals tampering with the cooperation’s installation
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The Minister of State for Transportation, Sen. Gbemisola Saraki has described Nigerian ports as the most expensive in the West African sub region occasioned by duplicity of functions by operators in the ports.The Minister of State, who was speaking when she received Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) in
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Senator Shehu Sani has been arraigned before a Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.The presiding judge, Justice E.I Ekwo, stood down the case till 12:00pm following a protest by Sani's lawyer that they had not been served with the charges.Sani was
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FCT High Court on Monday sentenced Maryam Sanda, the woman who stabbed her husband to death, Bilyaminu, son of a former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Haliru Bello, to death by hanging.Delivering judgment, Justice Yusuf Halilu, convicted her on circumstantial evidence.The killing was premeditated, the police said.The police
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The U. S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Catholic Relief Services (CRS) have launched “Water for Agriculture” project in conflict-affected North Eastern states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe. This is in a bid to reach no fewer than 60,000 herders and farmers with better access to water, healthier
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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has disclosed that 29 deaths and 195 confirmed cases of Lassa fever had been reported in 11 states of the federation.Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, Director General, NCDC, who disclosed this in a statement he signed on Saturday in Abuja, explained that the current figures were as at Friday,
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Leah Sheribu, a Christian girl kidnapped and held in Boko Haram captivity for over one year, has given birth to a baby boy, Sahara Reporters reports.Leah was delivered of the baby a few weeks ago following her forceful marriage to a top Boko Haram commander, according to a reliable source close to the
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The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Sabo Nanono has inaugurated an 18-member committee for implementation of Federal Government’s Agriculture mechanisation programme called The Green Imperative Programme (GIP).Nanono said the programme was timely in view of the need to feed the Nigerian population estimated at 200 million as well other African countries which rely on
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There is crisis in Edo state following an attack by hoodlums on Friday night at the venue of the Auchi rally of the All Progressive Congress' faction of the National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomole, setting ablaze the podium constructed for speakers, hundreds of chairs and two vehicles stationed at the venue of the rally
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