In the continued bid to ensure safety of lives and property, security around hotels, churches and other strategic areas remained beefed up in Abuja on Sunday. A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), who went round the city, observed that policemen, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps and FRSC officers were in strategic [...]
Some Nigerians have expressed concern over the increasing number of beggars in Lagos and would want the state government to move them away from the streets. Mr Edwin Lebeolisa, a member of Africa in Democracy and Good Governance (ADG), told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Lagos that a state like Lagos [...]
Some Lagos lawyers on Friday called for enhanced security at the nation’s prisons, to stem the increasing spate of jail breaks. The lawyers made the call in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), while reacting to the recent escape of 119 inmates from the Koton-Karfe Prisons in Kogi on Feb. 16. A [...]
Property worth millions of naira were destroyed in Ohafia local government area of Abia following a downpour on Tuesday night, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Reliable sources told NAN that the rain came at about 7 p.m. with a strong wind and lasted for about 45 minutes. NAN learnt that many residential buildings [...]
Activities resumed fully on Saturday at the general hospitals and the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital in Lagos, as doctors called off a three-day warning strike. A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria, who visited some hospitals such as the Surulere General Hospital, Igando General Hospital and LASUTH, reports that doctors have been attending [...]
Residents of Olokuta community in Idi Aba area of Abeokuta in Ogun have criticised the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) for allegedly throwing them into darkness for two years. In a protest letter to the PHCN management, the Community Development Association (CDA) expressed concern that the people were paying electricity bills but did not [...]
The Oyo Sector Commander of the FRSC, Godwin Ogagaoghene, says the commission will enforce the use of the seat belt. Ogagaoghene told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Ibadan that many motorists in the state still refuse to use the seatbelt inspite of massive sensitisation by the FRSC. He said the use [...]
Nigeria is to host the Africa Junior Achievement (JA) Business Award later this year, Mrs Franca Thomas, the National Programme Coordinator, Junior Achievement Nigeria, said on Thursday in Abuja. Thomas disclosed this when she led a delegation of the NGO on a courtesy visit to the Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria [...]
The CPC’s Presidential Candidate in the 2011 general elections, retired Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, has declared his intention to re-contest the seat in the 2015 general elections. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Buhari made his intention known while addressing CPC supporters in Kaduna who visited him. He told the crowd that he [...]
Two days into resumption of work after the Easter holidays, students of the University of Abuja are yet to resume as the institution’s hostels have remained closed. A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria, who visited the institution in Gwagwalada, reports that few students were seen on the campus checking admission lists. Staff members [...]
Mark President of the Senate Senator David Mark yesterday commiserated with the Acting Inspector-General of Police Mohammed Abubakar on the death of his mother, Hajia Aisha Saidu, on Wednesday in a Cairo, Egypt hospital after a brief illness. He prayed God to give the family the fortitude to bear the loss. Governor Babatunde Fashola of [...]
Kano (NAN) The Kano State Government has earmarked N2 million for the payment of dowry for the first batch of 100 divorcees and widows to be given out in a planned group marriage. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the government plans to marry off 1, 000 widows and divorcees through the state [...]
The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Badagry Unit Command, said it impounded 80 vehicles for alleged traffic offences during the Easter celebration. The Unit Commander, Mr Mato Zubairu, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos that the offenders’ vehicles were impounded for over-speeding, dangerous driving and bad lighting system. “We started [...]
A former Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Senator Olurunnimbe Mamora has said that the uniting force of sports could be used to manage the Boko Haram crisis in Nigeria. Mamora said in Lagos that over the years, sports had united Nigerians and could be used to curb the menace of Boko Haram. [...]
Auchi — Banks in Auchi, Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State, Wednesday vowed to remain closed until the incessant bank robberies in the area are curtailed. Chairman of the Auchi Branch of the Bankers Forum, Mr Bash Sanusi, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN. He said [...]
Ado-Ekiti – (NAN) Ijero-Ekiti in Ijero Local Government Area of Ekiti State has been thrown into mourning following the death of Chief Akin Omoboriowo, a former deputy governor of old Ondo State. Family sources told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ijero Ekiti that Omoboriowo died on Tuesday night in Lagos. He was aged [...]
Robbers give Auchi banks the fright Published on April 11, 2012 by pmnews · 4 Comments Banks in Auchi area in Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo state, west of Nigeria, have vowed to remain closed until the incessant bank robberies in the area are curtailed. The Chairman of the Auchi Branch of the [...]
Some capital market operators on Wednesday called on commercial banks to provide financial assistance to the newly appointed market makers in the capital market. The operators said that collaboration and financial support by banks to the 10 market markers would create the needed depth and liquidity in the market. A market maker is a brokerage [...]
Nigeria‘s Vice President, Namadi Sambo on Monday night arrived in the U. S. for the annual conference of Export-Import Bank. The North America Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Vice president who came in aboard a presidential aircraft arrived at the Andrew Airforce Base at about 8 p.m. He was [...]
Fire gutted a section of the Zenith Bank branch located at Area 7 in Abuja on Monday evening, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. An eyewitness at the scene, told NAN that the fire started at about 7.35 p. m. due to an electrical fault in the bank. A NAN correspondent who visited the scene, [...]
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