Barely one week after the Nigeria Customs Service opened the Illela land border between Nigeria and Niger Republic, the government of the neighbouring country opened its border in Konni for operations on Friday.A source, Nuhu Samaila, from Konni, in Niger Republic, who briefed newsmen, said the border was declared open
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The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, has cautioned electricity consumers against self- procurement of transformers, cables, and accessories without formal agreement with distribution companies.NERC Commissioner of Customers Affairs, Aisha Mahmud, gave the warning at the commission’s three-day Customers Complaints Resolution Meeting with Eko Electricity Distribution Company’s customers on Friday
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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has busted cocaine syndicates operating in Kano State and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, said in a statement that in Kano State, a syndicate dealing in cocaine and heroin was successfully dismantled with the arrest of 42-year-old Onyeka Uba
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The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social welfare, Prof Muhammad Ali Pate, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) for the procurement of cancer equipment worth N38 billion for six federal tertiary hospitals.The selected hospitals for the project in the six geo-political zones
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In two years, a total of 149 persons have died of tuberculosis and 7,000 others infected with the virus in Cross River State.The state commissioner for health, Dr Henry Ayuk, gave the statistics yesterday in Calabar during the flag-off of the campaign to mark this year’s World Tuberculosis Day at
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National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), has alerted Nigerians on new tricks by some suspected human traffickers who are exploiting coordinated global brand trademarks and offering unrealistic oil and gas job offers to traffic unsuspecting youths and other classes of people to neighbouring West African countries
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The Federal Government on Friday, arraigned the detained President of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Mr Bello Bodejo, before a Federal High Court in Abuja.Bodejo was arraigned on a three-count criminal charge bordering on alleged establishment of an ethnic militia in Tudun Wada, Kau Local Government Area of Nasarawa State.He pleaded
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Former spokesman for the Atiku-Okowa Presidential Campaign Council during the 2023 presidential election, Daniel Bwala, has claimed that presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, and former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, have concluded moves to join the Social Democratic Party (SDP), in readiness for the 2027 general
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The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ola Olukoyede, has called on the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation, NDIC, to keep closer watch on banks across the country to avoid failure and its attendant unsavory effects on the economy.A statement by EFCC spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, said Olukoyede made
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The Police Command in Lagos State says it has arrested two students for allegedly faking their own kidnap.The Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the arrest to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday, in Lagos.Hundeyin further told NAN that the suspects also demanded $100,000 (about N150
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