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He told a delegation of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers, which paid him a courtesy call last Friday: “By the time I am through with this project, we’ll have a befitting working environment and will be in a position to host anybody from anywhere in the world

Oladunjoye decried the dearth of maps and other instructional materials for the teaching and learning of civic education, history and geography, adding that the launch of the instructional material will go a long way in helping the students understand the subjects better

A statement by the state Publicity Secretary of APC, Taiwo Olatubosun, said deliberate starving of security agents of funds has resulted in security lapses that allow criminals to have a field day across the state

He said that suspected Boko Haram militants had seized young men, women and children from Bintiri village in Borno State

A former Head of State and APC presidential standard-bearer, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, and the Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, had also commissioned a number of projects in commemoration of the sixth anniversary of Oshiomhole’s government

But reacting the APC said: “We draw the‎ attention of Ekiti people to the antecedents of Governor Ayodele Fayose when he wants to cause trouble in the state

Jonathan and some ministers paid tribute to the late minister at a special valedictory session held in his honour at the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa, Abuja

While charging the two to rise up to the internal security challenges that are making life unbearable for Nigerians, particularly in the North-Eastern part of the country, Moro noted that recent incessant successful breaking of prisons where hundreds of prisoners escaped was worrisome and an affront on the authorities

He said that the state was proposing N5 billion for the completion of the five ongoing flyovers in Warri and Asaba

The Chief of Training and Operations of the Nigerian Navy, Rear Admiral Austin Oyagha, made the clarification while briefing newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday

He directed the Niger State Transport Authority to include the school in its route for the movement of students and teachers

Delivering judgment on Wednesday, Justice Ahmed Mohammed held that although the lawmakers had the power to summon the minister, they did not follow due process in doing so

The statement said: “On behalf of the government and people of Nigeria, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan extends heartfelt condolences to the government and people of Pakistan on the loss of over 140 lives in yesterday’s terrorist attack on Peshawar

The supervising Minister of Information, Dr. Nurudeen Muhammed, stated this when he briefed State House correspondents on the outcome of the weekly FEC meeting presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan

Stinney was accused of killing two white girls, Betty June Binnicker, 11, and Mary Emma Thames, seven, who were found dead in a ditch on the black side of the racially segregated town of Alcolu, South Carolina, in March 1944. In the Jim Crow era of the South, Stinney was tried, convicted and executed within 83 days in the small mill town

Ahmed, who assured Nigerians of petroleum products availability, warned that any marketer who violated this directive risked being sanctioned

Mohammed made the appeal at a meeting with officials of the unions to deliberate on ways to resolve issues surrounding the ongoing strike of the media

Security agencies had on November 20 allegedly shot teargas canisters at Tambuwal and other lawmakers within the National Assembly complex

The soldiers were accused of mutiny, assault, cowardice and refusing to fight Boko Haram in the North Eastern part of the country

In well publicised statements, Sanusi asked Kano State residents as well as vigilantes to arm and defend themselves against future terrorist attacks