The Borno State Police Command has averted the theft of some train coaches at the Maiduguri Railway Terminus.UNITY TIMES reports that the police acted on a tip-off from persons said to be good Samaritans.The police said they apprehended six suspects in the process.Police spokesperson Sami Kamilu confirmed the incident, saying
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President Bola Tinubu has pulled the Federal Capital Territory Administration FCTA out of the Treasury Single Account TSA, effectively paving the way for the Nyesom Wike-led FCTA to utilize the territory’s internally generated revenue (IGR for the development of the nation’s capital.At a news conference in Abuja on Friday, Wike
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The Nigeria Immigration High Command has launched an investigation into alleged unprofessional conduct and racketeering in passport offices across the country.Spokesman of the Immigration Service, Deputy Comptroller of Immigration, DCI Dotun Aridegbe who made the disclosure, noted the Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service, Caroline Wura-Ola Adepoju has received, with
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Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu, on Friday, October 13, met with the national leadership of the Igbo Apex socio-cultural group, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo.The group, led by its President General, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, was in the National Assembly, Abuja, to pay a courtesy
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Eight years after completing his second tenure as governor of Kano State, the presidential candidate of New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, yesterday, step his foot again into the Kano Government House.Kwankwaso, who was equally prevented from visiting Kano for about three years while serving as Senator
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The Lagos State Government, on Friday, directed the immediate closure of Mile 12 International and Owode Onirin markets over filth and other environmental infractions.A statement signed by the Director of Public Affairs, Ministry of Environment and Water Resources, Kunle Adeshina, said the markets were closed during a joint operation carried
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Israel’s military on Friday directed the evacuation of northern Gaza, a region that is home to 1.1 people, within 24 hours, a U.N. spokesman said.The order, delivered to the U.N., comes as Israel presses an offensive against Hamas militants. U.N. spokesman Stéphane Dujarric called the order “impossible” without “devastating humanitarian
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President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of new Chief Executive Officers, CEOs, of several agencies and parastatals under the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment.A statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale on Saturday said the appointments were in line
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Multichoice's Africa Magic channel has celebrated two decades of significant expansion as a major platform for African content and an engine for multiplying Africa’s creative talent.Launched as a single channel showing mainly Nollywood movies in 2003, Africa Magic has since grown to include seven channels for movies, sitcoms, soap operas,
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Dr. Alex Otti, Abia State Governor, on Thursday flagged off the reconstruction of the long-abandoned Port Harcourt Road, a major artery that holds immense promise in the economic and social revival of Aba, the commercial nerve of Abia.The currently disused road, which was constructed during the administration of the late
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