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  Hundreds of french immigrants workers working on the front-line for the coronavirus pandemic are being rewarded with citizenship reports the BBC. The report says that the government has invited residents who have been on the front-line efforts against Covid-19 to apply quick naturalisation to become french citizens. So far over 700 who applied are in the final stage of ...

The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Muhammad Adamu has told his men to work out modalities to work with Miyetti-Allah, the umbrella body for the dangerous herdsmen creating havoc in the country.  The IGP who is in Katsina to access security preparations on ground after the wholesale kidnap of aschool over 300 students in Kankara December 11, said he was in ...

  “The present arrangement is a fruition of a handshake across the old boundaries by the old Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, gripped by Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, which resulted in the rise to power of the APC.” A special investigation carried out by Pegasus Reporters nationwide indicates that political party aspirants in states where their parties were in the ...

  The Youths are Protesting the Appointment of a Sole Administrator for the NDDC Early morning travelers along the East-West Road were stranded for hours on Monday as Ijaw Youths protested over the appointment of Effiong Okon-Awka as Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Sole Administrator. Citing “a plethora of litigations” which would hinder the operation of the interim management committee, ...

  “Unfortunately, the results of the speaker and that of the clerk turned out positive,” The Speaker of the Niger House of Assembly, Bawa Wuse and the Clerk, Mohammed Kagara, are in islolation after testing positive for COVID-19. The state Commissioner of Information and Strategy, Mohammed Idris gave this indication while speaking reporters on Sunday in Minna. Mr. Idris also, ...

  The Top Bureaucrat Was 57. NEWS AGENCY OF NIGERIA  The Director General of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, near Jos, Habu Galadima is dead. Brig.-Gen. C.F.J. Udaya, the Secretary and Director of Administration of the Institute announced the death in a statement on Sunday in Jos. Mr. Galadima, 57, died Sunday morning after a ...

  The two judicial officers have also been recommended for immediate retirement. NEWS AGENCY OF NIGERIA The National Judicial Council (NJC) has recommended the compulsory retirement of two judges; Shu’aibu Talba, the Grand Kadi of Yobe, and Abdulkareem Abdulrasaq, a judge of the Osun High Court for alleged age falsification. Soji Oye, the spokesman for NJC in a statement released ...

Lagos State Safety Commission has sealed Cubana Nightclub in Ikeja and some other facilities in the state for violating its new safety orders put in place to prevent against second wave of the dreaded Covid-19 pandemic. The commission also sealed off “De Corner”, an entertainment joint along Admiralty way in Ikoyi for similar violation of regulations for preventing the spread ...

  The official asserts that Boko Haram had no reach to carry out such an operation. NEWS AGENCY OF NIGERIA  The Nigerian military on Saturday shed more light on its role in the release of 344 students kidnapped from their school in Kankara, Katsina State, on Dec. 11. The military said that while kinetic and non-kinetic approaches were used to ...

  Following an upsurge in the transmission of the deadly Covid-19 disease, the Lagos state governor who himself has gone into isolation has issued fresh guidelines and partial close-down of private business and public services. The order which were issued during the week and posted on the governor’s twitter handle runs thus: – All public servants from GL 14 and ...