Senate confirms Abdulrasheed Bawa as EFCC chairman
The Senate confirmation was done after a screening that lasted for over two hours.
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The Senate confirmation was done after a screening that lasted for over two hours.
If confirmed, Mr Bawa will be the youngest ever EFCC chairman and take over from Mohammed Umar who has been ...
This is the first time Nigeria will record less than 700 cases for five consecutive days since the country began ...
Nine of the dead were young boys hit by a bomb while playing football at Gwange ward.
The explosions started at about 5:45 p.m. and continued intermittently for about an hour.
This is the second attack against police stations in Abia State, in less than a month.
The Imo governor met with President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja.
The confirmation comes barely five days after they were screened by the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Legal experts and other commentators say the Nigerian authorities face a dilemma in checking the activities of people like Sunday ...
An official said the variant, which has spread to a few other countries, has not been classified as a variant ...
The report says the five worst hit states are Borno with 1,176 deaths, Kaduna, 628; Katsina, 501, Zamfara, 262; and ...
The rally held despite the COVID-19 health protection regulations by state and federal government.
On February 27, it will be exactly one year since Nigeria reported its first COVID-19 infection.
Private universities seem to be coping better in adhering to COVID-19 protocols.
Seven officials of the air force died in the plane crash.
A spokesperson for the Air Force told PREMIUM TIMES all on board the plane were military personnel.
Hadi Sirika, Nigeria's aviation minister, tweeted Sunday afternoon that the crash "appears to be fatal."
Many officials of the anti-corruption agency view Mr Bawa as the attorney-general Abubakar Malami’s man but say he is brilliant ...
Lawyers say the continued detention of Titilayo Benson without new charges is a gross violation of human rights.
Deaths from COVID-19 in Africa have surged by 40 per cent in the past month.
Nigerian soldiers reportedly repelled the gunmen after three hours of gunbattle.
Some of the students say they were notified of the attack before it happened.
Based on the agreement reached with the Lagos State government, the company will be entitled to seven per cent of ...
The learning and boarding facilities at the Government Science College, Kagara, are dilapidated and in dire need of renovation.
One of the petitioners' mother was killed by a police stray bullet
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