Aircraft engineers and technicians of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) have reactivated a Dornier DO-228 aircraft that had been grounded for 23 years. A statement by the NAF spokesman, Air Vice Marshal Olusola Akinboyewa, announcing the achievement underscores NAF’s growing capacity for indigenous maintenance to bolster its operational readiness whilst contributing
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Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State has appointed Abubakar Bununu, Prof. Simon Yalams, and Usman Danturaki as special advisers barely 24 hours after they were sacked as commissioners.Bununu, Yalams, and Danturaki were among the five commissioners the governor sacked yesterday. They were former commissioners of security and internal affairs, agriculture,
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The Kogi State government has compensated victims of the GSM village fire that occurred in the Paparanda Kpata area of Lokoja, the state capital.The deputy governor, Joel Salifu Oyibo, presented the cheques to the affected victims and said that the compensation payment was a testament to the Governor Ododo administration’s commitment to
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Okoro I., EnuguThe founder and leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Barr. Ralph Uwazuruike, has described the Igbo political leadership as selfish and parochial. The MASSOB leader stressed that the Igbo stakeholders are only interested in their selfish interests and personal pockets. Barr. Uwazuruike revealed
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Anietie Udobit, AbujaNo fewer than 5,200 women spread across the 44 local government areas of Kano State were given N50,000 each by Governor Abba Yusuf.At an event in the Government House yesterday, Governor Yusuf said the women selected from the 484 wards of the local governments were empowered to be
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Anietie Udobit,AbujaThe Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), through its commission, distributed assorted relief materials to the victims of the 2024 flood disasters across affected communities in Bauchi State yesterday. About 16 local government areas in Bauchi have recorded one or more incidents of flood disasters in 2024, leading to
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Anietie Udobit, AbujaThe Federal Government has approved a tariff hike for telecommunications services in Nigeria, assuring that the increment will not reach the 100% requested by operators.Dr. Bosun Tijani, Minister of Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy, disclosed this during a stakeholders’ meeting with Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) in Abuja.Dr.
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Okoro S, LagosThe Lagos State Special Offences Court, on Wednesday, dismissed an application filed by former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, challenging the court’s jurisdiction to entertain the $4.5bn and N2.8bn fraud charges brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.Justice Rahman Oshodi, in
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Uchechukwu Okoroafor, AbujaPresident Bola Ahmed Tinubu's commitment to developing the Anambra Basin and completing the Eastern Rail Line connecting Port Harcourt to Maiduguri is a beacon of hope for the South East region and indeed Nigeria at large.These promises, if fulfilled, have the potential to transform the economic fortunes of
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Anietie Udobit, AbujaThe Chairman/chief executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brig Gen Mohamed Marwa (rtd) has said the agency arrested 18,500 suspects in 2024.According to him, “So far, the results have been justifying. In 2024, we seized over 2.6 million kilograms of illicit drugs. Across the country,
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