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    Zulum Orders Immediate Investigation Into MURIC’s Claims of Hijab Harassment in Maiduguri Hospitals

    October 9, 2025 (updated October 9, 2025) Published by Standard Focus

    Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, received with great concern a statement by the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) alleging the harassment of muslim women for wearing hijab in some hospitals in Maiduguri. He noted that while the government is not aware of any official report or complaint regarding such incidents, his administration has taken the allegations with utmost seriousness. In... Read more

    Category: News, Uncategorized

    2009 Agreement: SSANU, NASU to Begin Indefinite Strike October 6

    October 1, 2025 (updated October 1, 2025) Published by Standard Focus

    ...Express disappointment over FG's lukewarm attitude to their demands The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, has threatened to commence indefinite strike on October 6, after the end of its two-week extension of ultimatum to the government over the abandonment of renegotiation of the 2009 Agreement. SSANU expressed deep concern over what it described as the Federal Government’s persistent... Read more

    Category: Education, Uncategorized

    Nigeria @65: A Nation Betrayed by Leadership Failures- Peter Obi

    October 1, 2025 (updated October 1, 2025) Published by Standard Focus

    The 2023 Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi has accused successive leadership failures for frustrating the vision of the nation’s founding fathers. Obi said this in a broadcast to Nigerians on Wednesday to mark the nation's 65th Independence Day anniversary, The former Amambra State governor noted that the prediction at independence in 1960, that Nigeria would become... Read more

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    DICON Ordinance Explosion: Matawalle visits Factory, Says Situation under control

    September 22, 2025 (updated September 22, 2025) Published by Standard Focus

    DICON Ordinance Explosion: Matawalle visits Factory, Says Situation under control Following the accidental explosion that occurred at the Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria (DICON) Ordnance Disposal Pit on Saturday, 20 September 2025, the Minister of State for Defence, Dr. Bello Muhammad Matawalle on Sunday, 21 September 2025, visited the DICON Ordnance Factory site in Kaduna. A statement by the Ministry... Read more

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    Projects Execution: Reps demand payment details from Account-General

    September 22, 2025 (updated September 22, 2025) Published by Standard Focus

    Projects Execution: Reps demand payment details from Account-General …. Task contractors on works authenticity - Deputy Speaker, Kalu The House of Representatives has mandated the Accountant General of the Federation, Shamseldeen Ogunjimi to provide the spreadsheet detailing the payments made to contractors as a part of the N2.4 trillion approval for payment by the government for project implementation. The demand... Read more

    Category: Uncategorized

    FCTA to deploy drones, begins clearance of Kpaduma Forest after kidnap attempt

    September 22, 2025 (updated September 22, 2025) Published by Standard Focus

    FCTA to deploy drones, begins clearance of Kpaduma Forest after kidnap attempt ABUJA: The Federal Capital Territory Administration FCTA on Monday begun a clearance operation at the Cashew Plantation/Forest in Kpaduma-Kobi village along the highbrow Asokoro-Guzape corridor, following the attempted kidnap of a couple in the area on September 15. According to the administration, it will deploy drones to surveil... Read more

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    Alleged $6bn Fraud: EFCC Re-Arraigns Ex-Minister of Power, Agunloye

    September 19, 2025 (updated September 19, 2025) Published by Standard Focus

    ABUJA--The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, re-arraigned a former Minister of Power and Steel, Mr. Olu Agunloye, before a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory sitting at Apo, following his alleged complicity in a $6billion contract fraud. The anti-graft agency had alleged that Agunloye, who served as a Minister between 1999 and 2003, under the administration... Read more

    Category: Crime Alert, Uncategorized

    Rivers Assembly seeks Review of Financial Dealings During Emergency Rule

    September 18, 2025 (updated September 18, 2025) Published by Standard Focus

    Rivers Assembly seeks Review of Financial Dealings During Emergency Rule …Asks Fubara to Submit, New Budget, List of Commissioners Nominees The Rivers State House of Assembly, today, resumed plenary after the expiration of the Emergency Rule declared in the state by President Bola Tinubu. Tinubu had declared state of emergency in the state on March 18th following the political crisis... Read more

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    Deputy Speaker, Kalu Joins Okonjo-Iweala at WTO Conference in Geneva

    September 18, 2025 (updated September 18, 2025) Published by Standard Focus

    Deputy Speaker, Kalu Joins Okonjo-Iweala at WTO Conference in Geneva ….Reinforces Multilateralism, African Trade The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Benjamin Kalu, has joined the 55th Session of the Steering Committee of the Parliamentary Conference on the World Trade Organization (WTO) at the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. This followed Kalu's membership of the WTO... Read more

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    As NASS Resumes: Conference report on the electoral amendment will be discussed, Senate to EU

    September 18, 2025 (updated September 18, 2025) Published by Standard Focus

    As NASS Resumes: Conference report on the electoral amendment will be discussed, Senate to EU The Nigeria Senate has assured that Conference report on the electoral amendment will be discussed as the National Assembly prepares to resume legislative duties next week after its long recess. Speaking in Abuja during a meeting with the European Union Elections Follow-up Mission to Nigeria,... Read more

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