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The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) says the Air Task Force of Operation “LAFIYA DOLE” has commenced an intensive bombardment of insurgents’ hideouts in northern Borno State and the Sambisa general area. The Director of Public Relations and Information, NAF Headquarters, Air Vice Marshal Olatokunbo Adesanya disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Abuja. Adesanya said that, on the first day of...

The  Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) has shifted its November meeting from yesterday to today (Saturday) following the unavailability of  a document on revenue generated by  the   Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). It was gathered that stakeholder could not receive the component statement (a very important FAAC document) from the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to the Central Bank...

Ahead of the 2019 general elections, 21 new political parties have been registered by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) bringing the number to 67. The approval, according to a statement signed by Mrs May Agbmuche-Mbu, INEC National Commissioner and Member, Information and Voter Education Committee, was given at the commission’s weekly meeting on Thursday in Abuja. She said that the...

National President, Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Prof. Mike Ogirima has revealed that Three hundred Nigerian doctors left the country in 2016. He said more doctors have already joined the migration train this year. He did not give any statistics, although NAN learnt that 500 doctors sat for qualifying foreign medical examinations to move out. Ogirima made this revelation at the association’s...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti state has accused the Ekiti state independent electoral commission of working in tandem with the state government to rig the December 23 local government election in the state.  The accusation was made on Thursday by the Ekiti state Director of Publicity for the APC, Taiwo Olatunbosun during an interview with newsmen in Ado Ekiti. Olatunbosun said actions of the...

-presents N190bn 2018 budget Imo State Governor Owelle Rochas Okorocha has doled out one billion naira to each of the twenty (27) Local Government areas in the state. The amount which totals twenty billion naira is according to the governor meant for rural roads and other Infrastructural developments in the council area. Governor Okorocha who announced this on Wednesday during the presentation...

Oyo governor, Ajimobi  The All Progressives Congress (APC) has stated its preparedness to bury activities of opposition parties in the current political dispensation. This was as it concluded arrangements to welcome former governor of the state, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala; former Senate leader, Senator Teslim Folarin and former Secretary to the State Government, Chief Ayodele Adigun, to its fold on Saturday. Others expected...

Osun State House of Assembly, under the leadership of Rt Hon Najeem Salaam on Wednesday, issued a warrant of arrest against late Chief Bola Ige’s son who was also a former commissioner for land, Physical planning and urban development in the state, Hon. Muyiwa Ige. Ige was alleged to have ignored the assembly’s call for questions over a land issue...

Fuel queues, which resurfaced in Abuja on Dec. 4, are gradually reducing. A NAN correspondent (with inspection team of NNPC and PPMC officials at some filling stations in the federal capital) on Wednesday observed that while the queues were short in some stations, motorists drive through in other stations to buy the product. At Total filling station in Zone 1, Wuse,...

•Shot AIT journalist Patience Owei The Bayelsa State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) on Tuesday urged the Bayelsa Government and Police to check the proliferation of arms and resultant upsurge in crime rate. Mr John Angese, Chairman of Bayelsa Council of NUJ regretted that the culprits in the murder of a Journalist in April 2017 were yet to...