The Acting Director of Defense Information, Col Rabe Abubakar has said that military chiefs from the Lake Chad Basin Commission have concluded plans for the imminent deployment of the 8700 troops of the Multi-National Joint Task Force.
He said in a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday that a meeting of military chiefs in N'djamena, Chad concluded the plans for the deployment. Present at the meeting were defense chiefs from Nigeria, Chad, Niger, Cameroun and Republic of Benin as well as the Commander of the Multi-National JTF and other high military...
Tuesday, 25 August 2015
The police in Kubwa, in Bwari Local Council of Abuja have arrested a 38 years old security guard for being in a sexual relationship with a girl of 9 years. The security guard works and lives at a church in Phase 2 Site 2, Kubwa.
During interrogation, the suspect confessed to the police that he had been in a sexual relationship with the primary 4 pupil for over a year. He said that he usually picked up the little girl at an agreed point after school hours. From there, they would proceed to his house.
However, trouble started for the randy guard...
Health corpers doing their NYSC program in Bwari Area Council, Abuja are protesting the failure of the council authorities to pay their monthly allowances since March this year. The corpers from Batch C of the National Youth Service Corps began their service in December 2014.
The authorities had requested the services of health care youth corpers whom they posted to the various health facilities in the area council. They placed the medical doctors on monthly allowances of N100,000 (one hundred thousand naira) and the pharmacists, nurses, laboratory...
Sunday, 23 August 2015
President Muhammadu Buhari is scheduled to host UN Sec-Gen, Ban Ki Moon at the Presidential Villa, Abuja today, Monday 24 August 2015 at midday.
The information is contained in a media advisory signed by Mr Oche Egwa for the Office of the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity. The statement said Buhari and the UN boss will address a joint press conference after a closed-door session.
Thereafter, Ban Ki Moon will return to the Presidential Villa for a dinner to be hosted in his honor by President Buhari....
President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to Nigerian lawyers to support his government's war on corruption and help return the country to the path of uprightness. He urged lawyers who often defend human rights to also see corruption as a violation of human rights.
Buhari identified corruption as the major reason why Nigerians suffer all manner of derivations
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“For the masses of our people, the millions still wallowing in want and diseases, corruption is a major reason why they cannot go to school; why they cannot be gainfully employed; and why...
Feelers from government circles indicate that the case of former Nigeria Immigration Service boss, David Shikfu Parradang is like that of the proverbial hunter's dog that wouldn't hear his master's whistle.
A subsequent statement to the one that announced Parradang's dismissal issued on 21 August 2015 and signed by a director/secretary in the ministry in charge of Civil Defence, Fire Service, Immigration and Prisons Services Board, Mr A. A. Ibrahim gave more insight into Parradang's suspension.
His number one sin according to the statement was...
Faljari village, 45kms east of Borno State capital Maiduguri was the scene of a fierce gun battle on Saturday between troops in the convoy of Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai and suspected Boko Haram terrorists.
The Army Chief was in Borno State to motivate the front line troops in the war against the insurgents, said Army spokesman, Col Sani Usman.
At the end of the firefight, 10 insurgents and a soldier were killed. Five militants were captured while four others managed to escape.
"The terrorists encountered an overwhelming firepower...
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