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The Nigerian Policing Programme (NPP), a British Council Funded Programme, is aimed at improving community policing, it was learnt on Tuesday. At an event held at the Area G Police Command in Ogba yesterday, Lagos State Intervention Officer of NPP, Ivy Basil-Ofili, said the programme is focused on improving community policing. She said: “One of the programmes is stakeholders’ police accountability...

Some of us have been following the health policy of Akeredolu administration . And we are beginning to see a very coherent and workable health policy . This government is taking a step away from the conventional free loader health expenditure policy to an economically participatory version. The government of Rotimi Akeredolu in Ondo State is doing one...

It is no longer news that Nigeria has been declared as the poverty capital of the world. The indices across lengths and breadths of Nigeria clearly invalidate any argument against this declaration in parliament of rationality. The Trading Economics Report indicates that Youth Unemployment Rate in Nigeria averaged 23.63 percent from 2014...

By Martins Odeh The Channels Television video of INEC’s Chairman, Prof. Yakubu Mahmud admitted by the presidential tribunal on Tuesday appeared to discredit allegation that results of the Feb. 23 general election were transmitted to the commission’s central server. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate in the 2019 presidential election alleged in their petition challenging the victory of...

The classmates of Mrs. Funke Olakunri, who was shot dead Friday by yet to be identified assailants, have called on the government to fish out the killers of the daughter of the leader of Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, Chief Reuben Fasoranti. Reacting to the news of the death of their classmate, members of the 1973/77 Set of Olivet Baptist High...

By Ismaila Chafe President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, affirmed that security remained at the apex of his priorities. He assured Nigerians that successes recorded in degrading terrorists in the North-East would be extended to parts of the country experiencing security challenges. Buhari gave the assurance when he received members of executive committee Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) led by their President, Dr Francis...

Governor of Zamfara State, Bello Muhammad Matawalle says he has completed arrangements to establish three Ruga settlements in the state’s three senatorial zones as part of efforts to end banditry. Matawalle broke the news on Monday during a joint security meeting with heads of security agencies, leaders of Miyyeti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF)...

By Martins Odeh The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday described the 48 Compact Discs evidence tendered by the People Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atitku Abubakar as lacking in probative value. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that four of the video clips played at the Presidential Election Tribunal court hall includes “Count down of Osun Decides’’,...

The Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, and his party have tendered 48 video clips at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal. The videos were produced by the media adviser to the petitioner, Mr Segun Sowunmi, to prove their case at the Tribunal as they challenge President Muhammadu Buhari’s victory in the February 23 election. Four of the...

Ondo State Police Command said its men were still in the forest to smoke out the killers of Mrs Funke Olakunri who was killed last Friday gunmen along Ore-Sagamu road. Police spokesman, Femi Joseph, a Superintendent of Police(SP) hinted that some arrests had already been made, but kept their identities under wrap. Read also: Ondo ALGON Sympathises With Pa Fasoranti, Tasks...