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The Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria is to collaborate with the Federal Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development to provide affordable houses for Nigerians. Head, corporate affairs of the …
FMBN partners ministry to provide affordable houses Read MoreAn Ilorin High Court Judge has sentenced two persons to 22-year jail term for criminal conspiracy to commit kidnap, extortion and armed robbery. Ajadi Oba AbdulRasheed and Ayeni Abayomi were …
Court jails kidnappers of Baraje’s son for 22 years Read MorePatriotic Citizens Initiatives for Community Development and Better Nigeria (PCICDBN) has scored the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan high since assumption of office. A statement signed by its chairman, Engr. …
Group scores Jonathan high in service delivery Read MoreA former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Orubebe, has attributed the non-completion of the East-West road to epileptic release of funds as well as the peculiar nature of …
East-West road can’t be completed this year – Orubebe Read MoreA Nigerian woman scientist, Dr Taiwo Olayemi Elufioye, has emerged the 2014 Early Career Women Scientists Award in Developing Countries. Elufioye, of the Department of Pharmacognosy in University of Ibadan, …
Nigerian woman, Elufioye, wins 2014 scientists award Read MoreSharia Area and Customary Courts Judges Association of Nigeria (SACCJAN) has declared to join the three-day warning strike to be embarked upon by the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) …
Sharia courts begin strike Wednesday Read MoreWhile the military was announcing its killing of 200 Boko Haram insurgents in Sambisa forest in Borno state on Saturday night, fleeing members of the sect attacked three churches, a …
Boko Haram kills scores, razes Adamawa churches, others Read MorePeople Democratic Party (PDP) Governors Forum at the weekend condemned the killing of innocent children in the North East by the Boko Haram sect and called on security chiefs in …
Change your strategy on Boko Haram, PDP govs tell military Read MoreElder statesman Chief Edwin Clark yesterday said that former President Olusegun Obasanjo was worth only N20,000 before he was elected in 1999. He also questioned Obasanjo’s moral right to oppose …
OBJ had only N20,000 in 1999 – Clark Read MoreConstruction and Civil Engineering Senior Staff Association (CCESSA) has urged the National Assembly to fast-process deliberations on the local contents bill to ensure that the Act was established in the …
Construction experts task NASS on local content bill Read MoreTwo Fulani herdsmen and 40 of their cattle were confirmed killed in Danmangu locality of Barikin Ladi local government area, about 30 kilometres away from Jos, the Plateau state capital, …
2 herdsmen, over 40 cattle killed in Plateau Read MoreDirector-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig, Gen. Johnson Olawumi, has called for the expansion of the collaboration between the scheme and the Nigeria Institute of Management (NIM). …
NYSC seeks enhanced collaboration with NIM Read MoreThe new Executive Secretary of the National Commission for Nomadic Education (NCNE), Prof. Rashid Adewunmi Aderinoye, has assumed office, and charged the staff to show their commitment to duty by …
New nomadic education commission’s boss assumes office Read MoreThe All Progressives Congress (APC) has said the Peoples Democratic Party’s reference to APC’s Road Map as a product of ‘Janjaweed ideology’ was a thinly-veiled religious blackmail. He said this …
APC to PDP: Stop pigeon-holing APC as Islamic party Read MoreThe Rotary Club of Abuja has urged Nigerians to intensify the fight against polio virus by taking preventive measures through immunisation. Its president, Mr James Ugbeda, made the call at …
Rotary seeks eradication of polio in Nigeria Read MoreThe governor of Gombe state, Alhaji Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo, has sworn in 16 special advisers who were among the 117 political appointees with a view to strategising its administration’s policies …
Dankwambo swears in 16 special advisers, others Read MoreComptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Mr. David Shikfu Paradang, has assured foreign embassies complaining against restrictions on free entry into Nigeria that the service has not targeted the …
No deliberate witch-hunt against any country – NIS boss Read MoreThe Executive Secretary, State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Jigawa state, Alhaji Sani Abdullahi, has said that there would be more transformation in both primary and secondary schools in the …
We’ll renovate schools, build more – SUBEB boss Read MoreA South-west group, Peace Unity and Love for National Development (PULNAD), has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to declare for 2015. Addressing journalists at the weekend, the Chairman, caretaker committee …
2015: South-west group wants Jonathan to declare Read MoreAs fuel scarcity persists across the country, motorists in Kebbi state have accused the NNPC Mega stations in Birnin kebbi of diverting the commodity for sale to independent major marketers. …
Scarcity: Motorists accuse NNPC mega station of diversion Read MoreNo fewer than 800 artisans and market women have benefited from the one week constituency outreach programme organised by Hon. Yusuf Ahmed Tijani representing Okene/Ogori-Magongo federal constituency in Kogi state. …
Over 800 artisans, women benefit from constituency outreach Read MoreBy Moh Bello Habib Zaria Emir of Zauzzau and chairman, Kaduna state Council of Emirs and Chiefs, Alhaji Shehu Idris, has advocated for a review of the retirement age for …
Emir advocates review of judges’ retirement age Read MoreChairman, Vitafoam Nigeria Plc, BamideleMakanjuola has identified high cost of fund as the major problem hindering the growth of businesses in the country. Addressing shareholders at the 52nd yearly general …
Expert decries high cost of funds Read MoreNational Chairman of Izalatu Bidiah wa’ikamatul sunnah (JIBWIS), Sheikh Abdullahii Bala Lau, has advised Muslim and Christian followers to observe three days fasting and embark on constant prayer to end …
‘Only prayers can solve insecurity problem in Nigeria’ Read MoreThe banking system credit to the private sector rose by 1.4% to N16.509 trillion at the end of fourth quarter of 2013. This is against 3.7 and 2.7% increase recorded …
Banks’ private sector credit increases to N16.509trin in Q4 Read More