Category : Local
Over 2500 senior citizens to receive N20,000 each under one-off cash grant
DG NSCC, Dr Emem Omakaro The National Senior Citizens Centre (NSCC) has commended the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya...
Insurgency: Burkina Faso seeks collaboration with Nigeria
The Armed Forces of Burkina Faso is seeking stronger collaboration with its Nigerian counterpart to enhance its capacity to address insurgency and other related crime...
FG launches digital payment for Conditional Cash Transfer in Gombe
Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Umar-Farouq at the launch of the digitized payment for Conditional Cash Transfer, Cash Grant...
15,000 litres of adulterated diesel intercepted in Imo
(L-R) The suspected adulterated diesel packaged in polythene bags, and the suspects arrested by the NSCDC. Photo: Chinazo Ilechukwu A truck with about 15,000 litres...
Navy intercepts over 300 bags of foreign rice
The Nigerian Navy has seized more than 300 bags of foreign parboiled rice and 40 wraps of cannabis sativa weighing 21 kilograms. Reports say the goods were intercepted on the Badagr- Portonovo waterway. The Commanding Officer, Forward Operation Base, Badagry, Navy Captain James Otache, said the perpetrators fled when they saw the Naval patrol team, who subsequently handed over the seized consignments to the appropriate prosecutory authorities. Navy-Captain Otache vowed that the patrol team would not relent in its security operations, particularly in the border town of Badagry. Applauding the Chief of Naval Staff Vice-Admiral Awwal Gambo, for providing the...