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The controversial staff retirement package for senior staff of the Security and Exchange Commission, SEC, was conceived and implemented with approval of the commission’s board, documents seen by PREMIUM TIMES show. The special package, tagged “Golden Handshake” that gulped N1.7 billion was...

This is very sad. A man simply identified as Zubaida Nuhu, has been found dead at Tamburawa river in a suspected case of suicide in Kano state. The postgraduate student of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, who was running a Masters programme at the Department of Water Resources …...

The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has called on the people of the state to defend themselves if attacked. The governor, who spoke on a radio programme titled, ‘Issue of the moment’ monitored by our correspondent on Tuesday, said it was necessary … Read more via Punch Newspapers –...

President Muhammadu Buhari has reinstated the suspended Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, Usman Yusuf. Mr. Yusuf was suspended by the Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, in June 2017, following allegations of gross misconduct. A panel commissioned by the minister after...

By Joseph Erunke ABUJA-THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has extended registration for 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. The board which announced the extension in a statement, Tuesday evening, said the registration will go on till February 11, 2018...

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has described the comment made on Channels Television Sunrise Daily today, by the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO); Mr. Jimoh Moshood, describing the Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State as a “drowning man” as an insult on all the governors in...

The Governor of Edo State, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has called for intercontinental partnership to eliminate female genital mutilation where it is still practiced. Governor of Edo State, Mr Godwin Obaseki Obaseki made the call in Benin City on the occasion of the commemoration of the International Day...

Former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, has explained why the President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government appears to have lowered its drive on the anti-graft war and also stopped the announcement of monies recovered from looters. Kalu, who is a chieftain of the ruling All...

An associate of Senator Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, Architect Aminu Abubakar Dabo, has refuted the rumored exit of the former Kano governor from from the All Progressives Congress (APC). Dabo reacted while speaking to newsmen in Kano on Monday. He insisted that Kwankwaso was still a member of …...