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    The Senate has queried the National Examination Council (NECO) over an alleged award of contracts worth N6.5 billion without due process. It also mandated its Committee on Public Accounts to probe the reported illegal contract awards. The contracts were for the printing of security and non-security documents by ...

  Residents at Tarfa Local Government of Niger state, are currently protesting after 15 young people were kidnapped by suspected unknown bandits. According to a source, the operation lasted for 1 hour and 30 minutes, despite the fact that police station and Army barracks are close to area.   According ...

  Bunmi Oladuntoye, fiancée To Late NAF Pilot, Lt Taiwo Olufemi Asaniyi, who died when a Beachcraft 350 aircraft crashed at the Kaduna International Airport on Friday, 21st May has penned down an emotional tribute to him. According to Bunmi, via the microblogging platform, Femi was the most kind and ...

    The House of Representatives has summoned the Minister of Justice and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami (SAN), Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed and the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, to appear before it on Monday to explain the status ...

  The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has stated that both Governor Hope Uzodinma and his predecessor, Rochas Okorocha, lack the financial capacity to sponsor the group. The group in a statement on Sunday signed by its Director of Media and Publicity, Emma Powerful, asked the duo to leave ...

  Two Nigerian men have drowned in Malta in a tragic incident that involved one of the men trying to rescue the other. Naija News learnt that the incident happened at Dawret il-G?ejjer in St Paul’s Bay around 12.15am on Saturday, May 22. Police said that investigations had so far ...

  Armed men in the early hours of Sunday attacked a police division in Ebonyi, killing one mobile police officer, an official has said. The gunmen were, however, repelled by the police officers who suceeded in killing one of the attackers, the Ebonyi police spokesperson, Loveth Odah, said in a ...

  The Police Command in Ekiti State has launched an investigation into alleged attack by five police personnel on the principal and teachers of Mary Immaculate Girls’ Grammar School in Ado-Ekiti. The police officer, Sgt. Agenoise Elijah, allegedly stormed the school with his colleagues on Friday to protest the audacity ...

  Immediate past Chief of Army Staff and Ambassador Designate, retired Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, says the late Chief of Army Staff was at the verge of making the nation proud before his tragic end. Buratai in his tribute to late Lt.-Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, said he was making tremendous progress in ...

  ‘I Won’t Pay Redundant Workers’- El Rufai Boasts again Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai has pledged to redress the damages done by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on the state’s economy during its five-day warning strike, insisting that Government was not in a position to pay redundant workers. ...