Six killed, 11 Injured In Uganda lightning strike
Six people were killed and 11 others critically injured when lightning struck Thursday the northern Ugandan district of Pader. Police Commander Tom Bainomugisha told a news medium by telephone that…
CCB Probes 200 Asset Declaration Cases Involving N40bn
The Code of Conduct Bureau has investigated 200 cases and filed 75 of them at the Code of Conduct Tribunal with about 100 cases still pending in the CCT. The…
Falana To DSS: I will Take You To Court For Refusing To Release Sowore
By Bimbo Ogunnaike A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana, has said that he will take a legal action against the Department of State Services (DSS), for refusing to…
Alleged Fraud: SIP Dismisses Four Facilitators In Jigawa State
By Bimbo Ogunnaike Social Investment programme (SIP) in Jigawa State has dismissed four facilitators of conditional cash transfer over allegation of fraud. State cash transfer coordinator; Ibrahim Abubakar Raba-Kaya made…
Share Information With NAFDAC To Arrest Fake Medicine Paddlers –Obiano
National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has urged medicine dealers, stakeholders in pharmaceutical business and Nigerians to share information with it in order to arrest fake…
Kano Traders Cry Out Over High Solar Energy Charges
By Olamilekan Alani Traders in Sabon-Gari Market, Kano, have rejected the compulsory use of a commercial solar energy power supply over what they called high charges by the providers. The…
ICPC Boss Decries Under-Utilisation Of N100bn Annual FG Constituency Projects
The Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, has expressed dismay that the N100 billion annual allocation to constituency projects has yet to achieve the…
Non-Oil Revenue Now Accounts For 54 Percent Of Nigeria’s Earnings – Fowler
The chairman of Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Tunde Fowler, on Thursday said Nigeria’s economy was gradually moving away from oil to non-oil. Fowler stated this at the flag-off ceremony…
African Virus Allegedly Kills Over 4,000 pigs In Indonesia
Over 4,600 pigs Allegedly Die Of African Virus In Indonesia By Bimbo Ogunnaike with agency report North Sumatra’s Head of Food Security and Livestock Agency in Indonesia, Azhar Harahap, has…
Senate Urges FG To Install Firefighting Equipment In Major Markets
The Senate on Thursday asked the Federal Government to install firefighting gear in major markets across the country. The Senate arrived at this resolution after deliberating extensively on the fire…
