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The Nigerian Population Commission says it will conduct a three-month birth registration campaign in Cross River due to low birth registration in the state.

Chief Segun Osoba, a former Governor of Ogun, says fake news and blackmail by some bloggers are threats to the integrity of online medium.

Police said on Friday that he attempted to escape ahead of a court appearance.

DSP Terna Tyopev, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state police command gave the warning in a statement on Friday in Jos.

Dr Hamid Bobboyi, the Executive Secretary of the Commission, gave the commendation during a visit of the management of the commission to Lagos SUBEB in Maryland, Lagos.

The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority says it has deployed a special squad to tackle the unending gridlock that has locked down Apapa and other areas of Lagos.

Kanu went of out public view last year August during the Nigerian Army’s Operation Python Dance in Abia State

The Federal Government says it is engaging foreign media organisations, networks and think tanks to shape their opinions on the true position of things and correct the negative narratives about the country and President Muhammadu Buhari’s…

Nuhu Ogirima, National President, COEASU, made the appeal in a statement made available to newsmen on Friday in Abuja.

Flooding killed six people and sacked no fewer than 35 communities in the Esan South East Local Government Area of Edo this year.

Oba Ogunwusi, who is separated from Olori Wuraola, made the announcement on his Twitter handle late Thursday night, about 24 hours after his birthday celebration

A statement signed by Samaila Aruwan, Senior Assistant to Governor Nasir El-Rufai on Media and Publicity, said that the curfew was “with immediate effect”

The EFCC said this in a statement on Thursday by its spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren

Fayose, who reacted through his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, said he was baffled by the conversation and the plot to eliminate him because of his opposition to the misrule of the President Muhammadu Buhari

He described the move as “a project still ongoing within the institutions”, stressing that the vision behind the move was to “enhance our capacities to deal with economic and social challenges of the 21st century”

The Project consultant, Arc Jamiu Faworaja, who conducted the State Commissioner for Tertiary Education, Barrister Abdullah Alikinla round the edifice, Thursday in Ilorin, said that the project is 90 per cent completed. 

Ozekhome said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Thursday.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said on Thursday in London that the opposition lacked the moral right to blame President Muhammadu Buhari–led administration for unemployment in the country.

This followed the presentation of the report of the Committee on National Identity Card and National Population Commission by its Chairman, Senator Suleiman Hunkuyi.

The caretaker committee chairmen in the 18 local government areas of Ondo State have again been dissolved by the Ondo State House of Assembly.