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The FCT chapter of the Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria (REDAN) says drug barons and money launderers only use the real estate sector as a cover-up. The chapter’s chairman, Osilama Emmanuel Osilama, during the inauguration, said this in Abuja at the weekend during the inauguration of the 10-member disciplinary committee set up to sanitize the sector. The chairman of the...

The Police Command in Enugu State has confirmed five persons dead after a police cop attached to a company went berserk and attacked a compound within a neighbourhood in Enugu metropolis. The police also said four persons sustained serious injury as a result of the attack that happened SDunday at about 9:30am in Golf Estate, GRA of Enugu. The Commissioner of...

The South-East Chairman of Miyetti-Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), Gidado Siddiki, has said the group does not oppose the ban on open grazing, rather they seek an alternative. According to him, “you cannot stop someone from doing business without providing an alternative on what to do.” He noted that the ban on open grazing by the Governors of Southern...

Nigeria’s Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajia Sadiya Farouq, says the Federal Government has spent $5 billion to fight poverty in the country since 2016. Farouk who spoke on Sunday, during the presentation of letters of engagement and electronic tablets to 248 monitors of the NSIP programme in Yola, Adamawa, said President Muhammadu Buhari has, since 2016, backed...

The spread of COVID-19 in Nigeria continues to record significant decrease as the latest statistics by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) reveal Nigeria now has 167,206 confirmed cases. The NCDC, said on its verified website on Monday, that the case count has continued to creep down in the country. It revealed that no new additional case count was recorded...

A law to repeal provisions in the 1999 constitution for by-elections into vacant seats at the Senate and House of Representatives is underway in the Green Chamber. The piece of legislation exclusively obtained by Vanguard, entitled “An Act to amend section 68(1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999”, is sponsored by Kwewum Shawulu, PDP-Taraba. The sponsor of the bill...

The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) has denied claims of alleged N6.542 billion fraud and other allegations by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC). A statement by the Director, Public Affairs, Duke Ukaga, traced the reported allegations to ‘figment of imagination’ of the Amalgamated Union of Public Corporation, Civil Service Technical and Recreational Services Employees (AUPCTRE) which it said would not accept...

Qatar wants to allow only vaccinated fans to attend the 2022 FIFA World Cup, which it is set to host.   Prime Minister Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdul Aziz al-Thani said this in a state broadcast on Sunday. “By the time of the World Cup, most countries in the world would have vaccinated their citizens.” “Due to the possibility that some countries...

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has delisted 25 Computer-Based Exam Centres (CBT) across the country for poor performance at the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) held nationwide on Saturday, June 19. A statement issued on Sunday, in Abuja, by Dr Fabian Benjamin, spokesperson for JAMB, said the delisted centres failed during the conduct of the 2021 UTME...

The South-East governors and other stakeholders in the region on Saturday disowned the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and other separatist groups in the region. In a communiqué issued at the end of their meeting in Enugu and signed by the Chairman of the South-East Governors Forum, Dave Umahi, the leaders said the groups do not speak for the people...