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Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Nyesom Wike on Monday said insufficiency of operational equipment and vehicles was hampering the ongoing war against banditry and kidnapping in the FCT. Wike, who said this during a chat with newsmen in Abuja, also...

Resident doctors at the Enugu State University Science and Technology Teaching Hospital, Enugu State, have announced plans to embark on an indefinite strike over shortage of doctors and insecurity in the state. The doctors said they were also embarking on...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Plateau State says the pledge by the sacked legislators to return to the Plateau State House of Assembly is a call for anarchy. The 16 members elected on the platform of the People's Democratic...

President Bola Tinubu has directed the management of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) to extend the interest-free loan initiative to Nigerian students interested in skill development programmes. The President issued this directive in the House of Representatives on Monday...

Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has called on UK authorities to intervene in his trial and detention at Nigerian State Security Service (SSS) facilities. Since his re-arrest in July 2021, Kanu, a British-Nigerian national, has...

The Northern Senators Forum (NSF) has condemned the relocation of some departments of the Central Bank of Nigeria and the headquarters of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) from Abuja to Lagos State. The senators called on the federal...

The Executive Secretary of the Student Loans Board, Akintunde Sawyerr, has said that the soon-to-be-launched student loan application will be free of human interference. Sawyerr spoke about the “imminent launch of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund” to state house correspondents...

As more sources, including students and parents, confirmed the news of alleged food poisoning at the campus of Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, both the state government and the management of the institution reacted. Over the weekend, news of a...

Ailing Nigerian professor Inih Ebong, who for more than two decades has been in a legal battle over the illegal termination of his appointment, has won at the Calabar Court of Appeal against the University of Uyo. Ebong was diagnosed...

Ondo State Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa on Monday tasked leaders of the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to ensure that the upcoming gubernatorial primaries were rancor-free and peaceful. He also urged all aspirants to be peaceful in their...