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The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) said the application portal for the 2024/2025 academic session will officially close on Tuesday.The Managing Director of NELFUND, Akintunde Sawyerr disclosed this at a news conference in Abuja on Monday.Sawyerr sa...

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, FCT Command has deployed 4,500 personnel to ensure a hitch-free 65th Independence Day celebration in Abuja and environs.A statement on Monday by the FCT command spokesperson, Monica Ojobi, said the FCT Commandant, Olusola Odumosu, ordered the deployment to ensure adequate surveillance of the FCT....

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has issued a 14-day ultimatum to the Federal Government of Nigeria.The union made the decision following a National Executive Council meeting held on Sunday at the University of Abuja.The national president of ASUU,...

The Federal Government has dismissed claims that terrorists in Nigeria are carrying out a systematic genocide against Christians, describing the allegations as “false, baseless, despicable, and divisive.”In a statement on Sunday, the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, said portraying Nigeria’s securi...

Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has issued an order restraining a professor of Political Economy, Pat Utomi, and his associates from proceeding with their plan to establish a shadow government or cabinet in the country.Justice Omotosho issued the order in a judgment on a suit filed by the Department of State Services (DSS)....

By Israel Adebiyi The Federal Gove...

The Coalition of Civil Society Organizations in Nigeria and the Nigerian Interfaith Forum has demanded that the Federal Government strengthen the Petroleum Industrial Act to give room for the growth of local refineries.The CSOs also declared support for Dangote refineries while condemning the demand for subsidies by oil marketers under the aegis of...

Stakeholders have raised concerns over Nigeria’s severe tractor shortage, warning that the country’s low mechanization levels pose a major threat to food security.At the State of Mechanization Ecosystem in Nigeria stakeholder forum event held in Abuja, the Chief Executive Officer of TracTrac Mechanization, Godwin Ohuruogu, stressed the ...

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The Edo State Government Taskforce on Public Lands and Property has pulled down illegal structures at Abuja Quarters, Second Ugbor, Benin City.The buildings, sited directly under high-tension power lines, had become a haven for drug peddling, crime, and other illicit activities despite repeated government warnings.Chairman of the Taskforce, Honorable Eugene Okoloise, said the government would not tolerate criminal hideouts on reserved lands. He disclosed that the site had been s...