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The UK Government has launched the Developing Countries Trading Scheme (DCTS) in Nigeria. DCTS offers one of the most generous sets of trading preferences in the world and demonstrates the UK’s commitment to building long term, mutually beneficial relationships with countries like Nigeria. The…

The  crisis rocking workers and president of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Ayuba Wabba, has taken a a new twist with the stakeholders threatening that Ayuba Wabba should be held responsible if anything happens  to their chairman, Chief Emeka Anuna and his…

The Federal Capital Territory’s (FCT) executive committee has directed the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC) to restrict the activities of the Point of Sales (POS) operators in the FCT to commercial areas only because of security concerns. The FCT’s executive committee, which was…

The federal government yesterday said plans were afoot to create a database that would comprehensively capture the details of missing persons within the country as a result of insecurity, armed conflict, among other factors. The Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission…

Governor Nasir El-rufai of Kaduna has said the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has not remitted a dime to the Federation Account since the last quarter of 2021. He made this known during the 12th Kaduna State Council of Health meeting held…

Head of the Department of Pharmacology, University of Calabar, Dr Sylvester Ohadoma has been removed by the institution’s management over alleged extortion of students. He was also suspended for one academic session and barred from interacting with students within the period. His immediate removal…

The Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, has said that excessive fast can lead to kidney problems. Adeyeye who said this on Monday while fielding questions from journalists in Abuja noted that using substandard,…

The abducted Sole Administrator of the Ideato North Local Government Area of Imo State, Chris Ohizu, has been beheaded. The council boss was butchered on Sunday after his abductors allegedly received N6 million as ransom. Video of his beheading surfaced online on Sunday, where…

A SUSPECT linked to the Abuja-Kaduna train attack, Bello Yellow, has been arrested by vigilantes in Abuja. The suspect was reportedly arrested by vigilantes in the Zuba area of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). It was gathered that he was apprehended in the…