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Terrorists on Sunday swooped on a church in the Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State, abducting five worshippers. The terrorists also shot and injured the church pastor, who was not abducted along with the worshippers. The spokesman for the Katsina State Police Command,…

The Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) has condemned the planned return of the suspended ‘Park and Pay’ policy by the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), accusing the FCT Transport Secretariat of misleading the FCT minister, Muhammad Bello, on the policy. The AMAC leadership…

Veteran actor and former Music Instructor with the National Troupe Of Nigeria, Femi Ogunronmbi, is dead. The former music instructor, who once played the role of ‘Papa Ajasco’ in the Wale Adenuga Productions (WAP) comic series, was said to have died on Saturday…

Some staff of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund NSITF have demanded an immediate probe of the agency by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission ICPC as well as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC. They predicated their demand…

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has said it would prosecute a cartel said to be involved in illegal street-naming in the Territory. The FCTA also said that the legal battle between the FCTA and the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) over the…

The Nigerian Immigration Service ( NIS) on Tuesday said about 140,000 international passports are still uncollected nationwide. The service spokesman, Deputy Comptroller of Immigration Service ( DCI) Mr Tony Akuneme, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN)…

The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors has threatened to go on a nationwide strike if the Federal Government does not meet its demands. The association made this known in a letter signed by its president, Dr Emeka Orji, to the Minister of Health,…