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Onanuga said this at the opening of a two-day training workshop for staff of the agency on Tuesday in Abuja

Those who spoke with NAN in separate interviews on Saturday described late Nzekwu, author of “Eze goes to School”, as an icon whose book will always speak for him

The prolific writer died on Friday

Prosecutors said he robbed four banks between February 27 and April 17

Prince Ogun, Station Driver, Bayelsa State Fire Service Command, urged the people to promptly call the fire service when they have an emergency

The governor in a statement by his Special Adviser (Media Relations), Francis Agbo, regretted that the misinterpretation of the reporter from NAN has elicited the reaction of Prince Dayo Adeyeye

The workshop, which was organised by Google and Code for Africa in collaboration with the News Agency of Nigeria, held at the NAN Media Centre in Iganmu on Thursday

Ogunwusi, who hosted some management staff of the News Agency of Nigeria in Ile Ife, urged the affected states to think out of the box and pay their workers the outstanding salaries

Baru gave the commitment when the Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria, Bayo Onanuga, visited him at the NNPC Towers in Abuja on Thursday

Onanuga made the call when he received Senator Ali Wakili, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Poverty Alleviation, at NAN headquarters on Monday in Abuja

A female member of our entourage who had gone to the restaurant alone, later returned – visibly shaken and alarmed and what was her problem: one of the male ushers in the hotel had asked her if she would need a man to keep her company so she could have a real taste of Gambian hospitality

The Managing Director of NAN, Bayo Onanuga, announced this during a familiarisation visit to the Edo State office of the agency in Benin on Monday

Onanuga gave the advice in Abuja on Thursday when he received members of the Local Organising Committee of the 2016 National Family Planning Conference

He said that the committee’s visit to the state had enabled it to have first- hand knowledge of the condition of federal road projects in the state as part of its oversight function

Two Nigerian journalists from the News Agency of Nigeria and Channels Television are among the 24 participants at the programme

‘Much more important also in our 2017 budget, we want to upgrade seven more centres for the treatment of cancer. As we are talking today, there is no public hospital in Nigeria that has cancer treatment machine that is working’

Writing on his Facebook wall on Tuesday evening, Onanuga said facts he gathered through his daughter on a flight to London and his own experiences in Bauchi, Bauchi State and Jos, Plateau State showed that the situation in Nigeria is not as bad as being painted

The minister said this on Friday when he appeared at a News Agency of Nigeria Forum

Onanuga made the call on Friday in Abuja at a send-off party organised for the former Director of Administration and Human Resources Management, Mohammed Momoh, who retired on July 13

“NAN was founded because our government and the entire Africa found out that reports were being written from the jaundiced views of those we called imperialists at that time and their news organs