tion (NNPC) on Wednesday disclosed that it has signed a contract with China Machinery Engineering Company, CMEC, and General Electric, GE, to provide 50 Mega Watts of electricity to Maiduguri, Borno State.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, ahead of her 15th All-Africa Service project, has stated that partnering with the Lagos State Waste Management, LAWMA, non-governmental organisations, NGOs, and market associations, among others, to clean the state will help fight the spread of cholera and other sicknesses.

Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA and Saudi Arabia’s General Directorate of Narcotics Control (GDNC) have agreed to strengthen their partnership on the fight against trafficking of illicit drugs between the two countries.

The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, North East, under the leadership of the Zonal Coordinator, Lydia Madu Wagami in collaboration with the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development on Wednesday flagged off a One-Day Training for some members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) currently serving in Borno state.

Commuters had to trek long distances to their destinations, in the early hours yesterday, from around Iyana-Ipaja, Ikotun road and the environs, in Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State, following protest embarked on by commercial bus drivers, popularly called ‘Danfo’, over alleged extortion by men of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences Unit (Task Force).

*Warns political parties not to submit candidates for poll By Gabriel Olawale THE Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination, NINAS, Tuesday, said that all lawful means would be explored to ensure that the 2023 general elections do not hold, unless the Federal Government conducts a referendum for aggrieved indigenous nationalities. According to NINAS, “there must […]

On Wednesday, the President of the Nigerian Community in Turkey, NICOT, Prince Emre Magboh, said Nigerians have been united and now speak in one voice in Turkey.

By Paul Olayemi The Ovie of Idjerhe Kingdom, His Royal Majesty Monday Obukohwo Whiskey the Udurhe 1, has called for the strengthening of vigilante groups and other forms of community policing in the state so as to complement police effort in battling insecurity. The monarch who spoke at the palace on Wednesday afternoon while presenting […]

The Taliban has declared that it wished for peaceful relations with other countries.

By John Okiyi Kalu EARLY in 2014, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, who was then the Deputy General Manager of Abia State Environmental Protection Agency, ASEPA, was busy keeping Aba clean when a group of Aba landlords met with then-Governor Theodore A. Orji to consult with him on the choice of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP’s governorship […]