About 500 illegal migrants mainly from Nigeria, Mali, Togo, Senegal, Niger Republic, Guinea Conakry and other African countries have been repatriated from Gabon to Nigeria for not having valid travelling documents. Receiving the deportees at the Inland Waterways Jetty in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, the State Comptroller of the Nigerian Immigration Service, Funke…
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A crack team of operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday arrested one Kato Ifrahimu Nyam and Godwin Odali, both staff of a new generation bank for conspiring to defraud the bank to the tune of N3.6bn (Three billion, six million Naira) with an e-payment mandate purportedly from Federal Ministry of…
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Domkat Bali An ex Minister of Defence, Domkat Bali, has denied being indebted to any bank, saying he never took any loan from Fidelity Bank Plc as claimed by the bank. The retired army general was listed alongside a pastor and pro-Chancellor/Chairman of the Governing Council of the Redeemer’s University, Tokunbo Adesanya, in a…
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Diageo, parent company of Guinness Nigeria Plc and the world’s leading premium drinks business has kicked off its 2015 Master Bar Academy Programme in Nigeria. Through the Master Bar Academy Programme (also known as MBA), Diageo aims to help Nigerian bartenders learn world-class bartending techniques they need to build successful careers. The programme also highlights…
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President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered all Federal Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies to open a Treasury Single Account (TSA) and start paying in all government revenues, incomes and other receipts. According to the directive, this measure is specifically to promote transparency and facilitate compliance with sections 80 and 162 of the 1999 Constitution. A Sunday…
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The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said on Friday that more than 3,000 Nigerian refugees, mostly from Borno State, arrived the border from Cameroon and are currently undergoing registration formalities before being moved to Mubi for onward journey back home. Most of the refugees had fled their homes to seek refuge in Cameroon because of…
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In a fresh ambush on the Maiduguri-Damboa-Biu highway, rampaging Boko Haram gunmen killed four persons, injured three, and abducted two other persons. A local vigilante member, Abba Yusuf, who disclosed this in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, said the insurgents wreaked the havoc when they ambushed commercial motorists at Nwajurko village near SabonGari in Damboa…
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Apparently tired of killing innocent souls, eight members of the dreaded Boko Haram sect, renounced membership of the notorious sect in Mussa town, Askira/Uba local government area of Borno state. Six out of the arrested persons were from Gwoza, the headquarters of Gwoza local government area. Chairman of the youth vigilance group in the town,…
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Retired Brig-Gen. Paul Boroh The Presidential Amnesty Office in Abuja has commenced the payment of outstanding stipends to ex-agitators in the Niger Delta region and beneficiaries of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP). This followed the approval by President Muhammadu Buhari for the commencement of payment of the stipends and allowances to the beneficiaries. Retired…
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President Muhammadu Buhari said that the time has come for Nigerians to do more than pay mere lip service to agriculture, as crude oil and gas exports will no longer be sufficient as the country’s major revenue earner. President Buhari made the declaration at an audience with Dr. Kanayo Nwanze, the Nigerian born President of…
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