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The Police Force reported that gunmen have abducted two Chinese nationals from a construction site in southeast Nigeria. According to Loveth Odah, spokesperson of the Police in Ebonyi, the victims are Messrs Sun Zhi Xim and Wang Qinghu, employees of Tonyi Chinese Group of Companies. Odah said the armed men, who concealed their identities by wearing masks, abducted the Chinese ...

An Upper Area Court 1 sitting in Kaswan Nama, Jos, on Friday sentenced a 25-year-old labourer, Etop Sunday to five years in prison for stealing electric wires and ceiling fan belonging to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. The Judge, Lawal Suleiman, convicted Sunday after he pleaded to conspiracy, trespass, office breaking, mischief, and theft. READ ALSO: Bricklayer jailed ...

The African Development Bank, AfDB, says it has approved a 70 million dollar loan for a road project in Ebonyi. The bank said on its website on Friday that it would provide $40 million, while its co-financier, the Africa Growing Together Fund (AGTF), would contribute $30 million for the project. It also said that the bank group’s funding would cover ...

Waterworks across Kwara state have been shut down following a protest embarked upon by staff of the State Water Corporation. The workers, who took to the streets in Ilorin on Wednesday were protesting non-remittance of deductions from their salaries for cooperative unions and National Housing Fund under the supervision of the Federal Mortgage Bank. The protesters under the aegis of ...

A 68-year-old retired civil servant has alarmed policemen over alleged attempt on his life by suspected land scammers after he thwarted their plans to sell off his property using forged title documents. Abubakar Zira had written petitions to the Inspector General of Police, the FCT Minister, the Director-General DSS and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) chairman calling for ...

The Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria has warned the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) over its threat to demolish over 7,000 telecommunications mast in the country. The Chairman of ALTON, Gbenga Adebayo, gave the warning on Wednesday in Lagos on the sideline of the: “Vanguard Economy Forum on Telecoms.” Adebayo said any site brought down illegally and without ...

The World Bank, in collaboration with the Kaduna State Ministry of Agriculture, has organised a one-day sensitisation programme aimed at boosting agricultural production, especially at the grassroots. The meeting, tagged; Agro-processing, Productivity Enhancement and Livelihood Support Project (APPEALS) was held at New Choice Auditorium, Kafanchan, Jema’a Local Government Area (LGA). Mr. Yahaya Aminu, the Project Coordinator, said the objective of ...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday unveiled the newly reconstructed Institute of Maternal and Child Health popularly known as Ayinke House located within the premises of Lagos State University Teaching Hospital in Ikeja, describing it as a critical and timely intervention by the State Government in the health sector. Ayinke House, which is Nigeria’s biggest Maternity Hospital, was upgraded from an ...

The Federal Government has announced that it is decentralising the Nigeria Mining Cadastre Office for ease of operations, adding that this will cut down the time for processing licences from 45 to 15 days. The Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, Bwari Abubakar, disclosed this in Lagos on Tuesday, during the Nigeria Mining Business Investment Summit, jointly organised ...

Few hours to the visitation of President Muhammadu Buhari to Lagos, an early morning inferno on Wednesday consumed no fewer than 13 shops located at the Agbara Market, along the Lagos-Badagry Expressway in Lagos. The fire began at about 4.35 a.m. from one of the container shops opposite the expressway. Its cause is yet to be ascertained. The 13 shops ...