The Country Director of the United Nations Information Centre in Nigeria, Ronald Kayanja, made the call while delivering the second anniversary lecture of Penpushing Media, with the theme: “The Media and the Quests for Peace, Justice and Strong Institution in Nigeria.”
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President Muhammadu Buhari has indicated interest in disbursing the funds through his administration’s Conditional Cash Transfer programme to poor households.
The corporation Group Managing Director, Muminu Badmus, said on Sunday that the repair work which started on Saturday on its major water pipes on Carter Bridge-Iddo axis would end on July 25.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday sympathised with the victims of Jos Terminus Market where more than 200 shops were destroyed by fire.
Ibrahim, who disclosed this in an interview with newsmen in Abuja, said the Lokoja port was 75 per cent completed while Oguta port, in Imo, was 70 per cent completed.
Ibrahim, who made this known in an interview with newsmen in Abuja, said the bill which had passed first reading in Senate may not get two third majority to allow for a third reading and passage.
Alhaji Usman Gurama, Executive Secretary of the board, made the disclosure at the closing of induction course for the intending pilgrims in Gombe on Sunday.
The Northern Youth Council of Nigeria has frowned at a statement credited to the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, to the effect that the Federal Government was not ready to release Colonel Sambo Dasuki, former National Security Adviser, after perfecting the sixth bail granted him by the Federal High Court.
The Chairman of the Apapa Local Government Area chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos State, Hon. Borishade Adeniyi, has been shot dead.
The group said this in a statement reacting to the response from the Presidency to comments credited to Northern and Southern Elders, signed by its President, Alhaji Yerima Shettima, made available to newsmen in Kaduna on Saturday
Gowon spoke on Saturday at the Benue People’s House, Makurdi when he visited Governor Samuel Ortom to commiserate with the government and the people of the state over the wanton killings and destruction of properties in the state
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The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has admonished Nigerians in Diaspora to stop depending on Social Media for news about the country.
SP Abdu Jinjiri, the Police Spokesman in the state, who confirmed the incident, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Dutse that four other persons sustained various degrees of injuries.
Ekweremadu made the call in Enugu at the inauguration of the District Governor of Rotary International, District 91422 Nigeria, Dr Dan Ajawara.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the airline deployed its Boeing 747-600 with registration number 5NDBK with 562 passengers seat capacity for the hajj operations.
Buhari, represented by the FCT Minister, Malam Musa Bello, gave the assurance while inaugurating first flight for the 2018 Hajj with pilgrims from Kogi State, at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja.
Sunday Jika, the Officer-in-Charge of Gombe State Marshal, a local security outfit, who was amongst the minister’s motorcade, confirmed this to newsmen on Saturday in Gombe.
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) says it will reposition the Mobility Command for tactical and strategic airlift.
Alhaji Abdulrahman Yusuf, the chairman of Traders Association in Plateau, told newsmen in Jos that over 270 shops with properties worth millions of Naira were destroyed.