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The ‘Contract Verification Committee’ of the Office of National Security Adviser (ONSA) has released a newspaper advertorial with a list of 241 companies which were awarded contracts from the office between 2011 and 2015. The ONSA committee has requested the companies to appear before it on stipulated dates (details below) or risk being embarrassed. 12 JANUARY 2016 2020 Nigeria Limited, 313 BDC Limited, A & Hatman Limited, A A Master Nigeria Limited, A and B Associate, Abbatare Inc., Abraham Telecommunication Limited, Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, Abusarhard Nigeria Limited, Acacia Holdings Limited, Ace of Wood Working Nigeria Limited and Africair Inc. Also on the list of those expected on January 12 are: Afro-Arab Investment Limited, Agabea Securities Limited, Agbede A. Adesina and Co, AGI Nigeria Limited, Ahjuwa Nigeria Enterprises, Air USA, AI Noor Travels and Tours, Albani Associates, Allaje Motors Limited, Almond Project Limited, AMAC Aerospace, APC Axial, A...

Nearly six months after his escape from a maximum-security prison in Mexico, the drug kingpin Joaquín Guzmán Loera, also known as El Chapo, has been arrested by the Mexican authorities, according to the Twitter feed of the country’s president, Enrique Peña Nieto. An investigator inspected the exit of the tunnel that the authorities said had been used by the drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera to escape from a Mexican prison.U.S. Sought ‘El Chapo’ Extradition Before Escape. The tunnel had a motorcycle on rails to transport displaced to transport displaced earth. The arrest came after an intense gun battle this morning in the city of Los Mochis, a seaside area in Mr. Guzman’s home state of Sinaloa. “Mission Accomplished: We have him,” read the announcement from Mr. Peña Nieto. “I would like to inform the Mexican people that Joaquín Guzmán Loera has been detained.” The mission began shortly before 5 a.m. Friday, after an anonymous tip came in from a citizen concerned about armed men i...

Not fewer than 4 persons including the former Speaker of Bayelsa State, Boyelayefa Debekeme, the Special Assistant to the governor of Bayelsa State, Tam Alari and chairman Ekeremor LGA Hon, Billy Tobiyei, sustained matchete wounds during a fight that broke out between APC and PDP supporters at the governor’s lodge in Ekeremor LGA of the state. How many more must loose thier lives for Beyelsa?

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday raided the residence of the former Comptroller-General of Customs, Mr Abdullahi Dikko, in Abuja. The anti-graft personnel were said to have arrived at the house located at 6, Ahmed Musa Crescent, Jabi, at about 7 a.m. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) learnt that Dikko was not at home when the officers arrived and that their mission was not disclosed to any member of the family who were in the house. When NAN arrived at the residence, armed officials of EFCC were seen around the house. One of the four armed policemen, who accompanied the operatives on the operation, told NAN on condition of anonymity that their presence around the house was to ensure that there was no breakdown of law and order. Mr Mohammed Usman, a relative to the former Customs boss, said that the EFCC operatives arrived at the residence at about 7 a.m. According to him, the information I gathered showed that the operatives numbering about s...

Ever wondered ? We heard Alamieyeseigha is dead where and when was he buried? We heard sugarbelly's alleged rape and those that said they will get to the root of the whole issue...where are they today? Bring back our girls demostrators use to organise and demand for the rescue of the chibok girls why have they suddenly gone cold?

3032 Nigerian soldiers who were pardoned last August for various offences during campaigns against the Islamic terrorist group, Boko Haram, have rejected postings to the North-East. According to VANGUARD, the soldiers explained that they were never really pardoned and re-integrated into the Army, but rather, re-sentenced to the war front. The soldiers are claiming that they have not been fully re-instated into the Nigerian Army, because attempts by them to report to their units were rejected at their bases since they have no re-instatement letters. They also said that since they have been kicked out of the barracks they have not been paid for seven months making their families who live off-barracks begging for food. One of the soldiers who spoke to some newsmen anonymously said: “Look at me; I have put in about 28 years of my life serving this country. I have seen action in Liberia; I have been to Rwanda, Sudan and even served overseas and we the Nigerian troops did very well ...

Lassa fever is one of the lethal viral haemorrhagic fevers, apart from Ebola, Dengue and some others. It's predominantly a disease of West Africa that was first discovered in 1969 in a Nigerian town called Lassa where two missionary nurses died from the disease. Since then, there have been periodic epidemic outbreaks of the disease in different parts of Nigeria and the West African subcontinent. Furthermore, it is instructive to note that there is even an ongoing outbreak of this viral illness that has affected no less than 150 people in seven states of Nigeria namely Taraba, Kano, Rivers, Bauchi, Oyo, Niger and Nasarawa. This is according to Dr Abdulsalami Nasidi, Director of the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control in a recent interview with BBC Hausa. Sadder still, 7 people have since died from the disease in Taraba, Kano and Rivers states. Arguably, a low level of awareness on the part of the public is a major contributor to the rapid spread of this scourge. In this light, ...

Barely 48 hours to the supplementary elections in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday engaged themselves in an all-out bloody battle that saw the house of the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Hon. Konbowei Benson, in Korkosei community of Southern Ijaw council area attacked with explosives suspected to be dynamite by unknown masked attackers. The speaker, who confirmed the incident yesterday, accused the APC of hiring thugs who attacked his house. THISDAY gathered that the masked men invaded the riverside home of the speaker at about 4 a.m. yesterday. It was learnt that the house was empty when the invaders arrived in as the speaker’s family had all been relocated to Yenagoa before the December election. Following the kidnapping of his aged mother few months ago, and the fear of election violence, Benson had relocated every member of his family from Korokoros...