In a tweet on its Twitter handle, the Niger Delta Avengers also disputed the claim that its members had killed Nigerian soldiers
Author: NAN
Al-Mustapha, who addressed journalists in Lagos on Sunday on a number of issues relating to his 15-year travails in detention, said Abiola and Abacha were very good friends before some fifth columnists caused disaffection between them
“President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a high-powered commission to work on the issues around the ease of doing business in the country,” the Vice President announced while presiding over the first Quarterly Consultation between the Presidency and the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria on Friday afternoon
Buhari, who spoke on Monday with State House Correspondents over lunch, said: “Things were even more difficult during the budget, which you all know about
The gunmen, who stormed the hotel on Friday at about 11pm, after tying the guards on duty, shot Ogunlusi to death.
They were said to be four in number, spotting black jeans, T-shirts and with face caps
The President said the call had become imperative in order to ensure accurate and factual reportage of such issues
The Militant group in statement issued by its spokesman, Brigadier General Mudoch Agbinibo, offered the olive branch to a former militant and member of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, Government Ekpemuolo, popularly known as Tompolo, to join them in the fight against the Nigerian Government
Isah explained that the Minister, who heads the Committee, in his speech recounted that AMCON was established by the Act of the National Assembly to prevent the collapse of the Nigerian banking sector following the banking crisis as a result of the Bank Consolidation Reforms in 2008
This was contained in a statement issued by DSP Ahmed Usman, the command’s spokesman, in Gombe on Monday.
The statement stated that the incident occurred at about 11:45pm on Sunday
According to him, it has become necessary for the government to re-enlist the institute as part of the beneficiaries of Tertiary Education Trust Fund intervention policy
It stated that the Minister of the Environment, Amina Mohammed, confirmed the date when she visited Bodo in Gokana Local Government Area of the state to inspect an oil spill clean-up demonstration
“We want to champion the idea of Nigerians looking inward and thinking Nigeria promoting made in Nigeria products to encourage our own local manufacturers
The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, disclosed this in an interview on the News Agency of Nigeria Forum in Abuja
The MASSOB members began the march at Waterside Primary School, Owerri, from where they moved to Rotibi Street to Oguamana Street before linking Douglas Road
The Enugu State Police spokesman, Ebere Amaraizu, told the News Agency of Nigeria that the suspects were arrested on Obiagu Road in the Coal City, while commemorating “Biafran fallen heroes and heroines of the 1967 -1970 civil war”
It specifically commended the governor for appointing an indigene of the community, Chief Chijioke Nwakodo, into his cabinet as the Chief of Staff
The marathoner, who ended his solo marathon at the Gani Fawehinmi Freedom Park in Ojota, a suburb of Lagos, told newsmen that his efforts were bound to yield dividends to combat the SJS
Gilbert told his audience that the company, in appreciation of the support it has received from travel agents in its 15 years of doing business in Nigeria, was poised to make the conduct of business as easy as possible for all Amadeus clients and that this was part of the reasons why the company moved its office to Ikoyi
The IYC maintained instead that once issue of resource ownership and control is addressed, communities and the people would naturally protect oil pipeline situated in their communities as critical stakeholders
National junior tennis head coach, Mohammed Ubale, disclosed that the players, who have been in close camping in Abuja for some weeks, justified their selection by dominating the junior Central Bank of Nigeria Tennis Championship concluded last weekend in Kaduna