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Gunfire breaks out at funeral for assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moise forcing US and UN delegations to flee as his grieving widow with her arm still in a sling from the attack chokes back tears over his coffin – President Jovenel Moise’s body was laid to rest in his hometown …

How best do you think the Federal Government should handle the case of Yoruba nation, agitator, Sunday Igboho who was arrested on Monday in Benin Republic? Everything should be by due process. We don’t want a situation where we are becoming a police state where every measure of opposition is …

Two years after the suspension of the controversial Rural Grazing Area scheme in July 2019, the Federal Government has introduced a replacement scheme called the Livestock Intervention Programme to address the lingering farmer-herder crisis across the country. This comes amid the Federal Government’s intensified efforts to revive colonial-era grazing routes …

  The Central Bank of Nigeria has said it will launch its digital currency following an advice by the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo that cryptocurrency should be regulated not banned. The decision to launch its digital currency was reached during a private webinar on Thursday in which the CBN said …

The Federal Government will be constructing three new custodial centres with 3,000 capacity to ease congestion in correctional homes in the country. The Minister of Interior, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, made this known on Friday at the inauguration of the Nigerian Correctional Service, Osun State Command Headquarters Complex, in Osogbo. Aregbesola …

More   #Governor Ifeanyi #Ugwuanyi’s administration has delivered to standard the access road to the VOR/DME Navigational Aid Site and meteorological facilities of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (#NAMA), for safe landing of aircrafts at the Akanu Ibiam International #Airport, #Enugu, located behind NNPC depot, Emene. It would be recalled …

Port Harcourt Monorail was designed to transform the transportation sector in the city. The project has remained like this since the last administration that initiated it left office. Hopefully the present administration in Rivers state will complete it before leaving office and put it to use. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya5s-MdcdLE

The official website of the National Broadcasting Commission NBC) is now running following a lengthy period of inactivity as reported by FIJ last week. As of July 18, when an internet user clicked on the official web address of NBC, https://nbc.gov.ng, a 500 error message welcomed such user, making it impossible …

The sorry sight of Government Primary School, Ikot Ntuk in Oruk Anam is both pathetic and unbelievable yet, real with pupils scampering on uncemented floors and broken ceilings to learn. The desk-less dilapidated Primary School located in front of a forest, is without Perimeter fencing, windows, doors, library, convenience and …

The ruling All Progres­sives Congress (APC) is currently in a di­lemma as President Muhammadu Buhari, who is the leader of the party, has not given a clear direction on his choice of successor or the region where the party should zone the presidency to. Daily Independent gath­ered that the president’s …