President Muhammadu Buhari Monday directed the military, police and intelligence agencies to ensure safe and early release of all kidnapped victims, expressing concern over attacks on Kaduna and Niger States, largely targeted at students. While noting ongoing deployment of additional security personnel to all troubled areas, the President urged security outfits to “act swiftly” to ...

Kano State Task Force committee on Fake, Counterfeit Drugs and unwholesome foods says it has seized and destroyed fake and counterfeit drugs worth N6 billion in the past nine years. The Chairman of the committee, Gali Sule, disclosed this during an interactive session on Saturday with the Kano state chapter of the Nigeria Union of ...

Operatives of intelligence service in a collaboration with men of anti-corruption agency in Nigeria on Monday evening, arrested on=the-run Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina, in a town Niger Republic, PRNigeria has learnt. A top intelligence officer told PRNigeria that the arrest was made possible due to an existing mutual relationship and security agreement between the two neighbouring ...

Gov. Babagana Zulum of Borno, has visited Niger Republic to discuss modalities for safe and dignified repatriation of 120, 000 refugees. Isa Gusau, the Special Adviser to the governor on Public Relations and Strategy, made the disclosure in a statement on Sunday in Maiduguri. Gusau said that the governor had on Saturday, visited Diffa District ...

President Muhammadu Buhari says Nigeria will not rest until Boko Haram terrorists are completely decimated. Buhari in a statement by his spokesman, Garba Shehu, said the nation’s armed forces are winning the war against insurgency. He made this assertion on Saturday during the graduation ceremony of Senior Course 41 at the Armed Forces Command and ...

President Buhari In continuation of its efforts to invest in the country’s human capital development, the Buhari administration has continued to make significant strides through its National Social Investment Programmes (N-SIP). President Muhammadu Buhari administration’s NSIP, is aimed at empowering Nigerians and improving their livelihood through several initiatives. Millions of Nigerians nationwide are currently benefitting ...

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday, said that girl child education is beyond getting girls into schools. Dr Zakari Adam, Chief of Field Office, UNICEF Kaduna stated this at a two-day meeting of High-Level Women Advocates (HILWA) in Northern Nigeria, holding in Kaduna. HILWA is UNICEF’s Nigeria intervention project, currently in 14 states, funded ...

The police said the recently launched Operation Puff Adder is yielding results with the killing of nine gangsters operating on the Kaduna-Abuja highway and the seizure of arms. Two of the gangsters were injured, while some others escaped. However, one policeman sustained gunshot injury. According to Frank Mba, a deputy commissioner of police and spokesman ...

Abubakar Bwari, Minister of Mines and Steel Development The Miners Association of Nigeria, MAN, has urged the Ministry of Mines and Steel Development to operationalise the Mining Surveillance Task Force Team which was launched few years ago. Alhaji Kabir Kankara, the National President of the association made this known in a statement issued on Tuesday ...

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has inaugurated a new scheme, ‘Feed the Future Nigeria Agribusiness Investment Activity’ under a new contract with Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture (CNFA). CNFA is an international agricultural development organisation. The U.S Embassy made this known in a statement on Friday in Abuja. It explained that the scheme aimed ...