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Assembly tasks Sanwo-Olu on prevention of spread The Lagos State government has declared that the first index case of coronavirus recorded in Nigeria has tested negative. Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi said the Italian who had been receiving treatment ...

Vice Chancellor of the Igbinedion University Okada (IUO), Professor Lawrence Ezemonye has canvassed collaboration and offering of courses on counter-insurgency operations to check insecurity in the country saying, “Security affair is not a one-man affair.” He made the call at ...

Workers have issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Rivers State government to resolve the issues concerning the implementation of the new national minimum wage or risk industrial action. A source in the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) told journalists that the ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the military to clinically finish the remnants of Boko Haram insurgents in the North East to restore peace in the region. Inaugurating the National Humanitarian Coordination Committee (NHCC) at the State House, Abuja, the President ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that the diversification of Nigeria’s economy had become urgent in the face of the falling oil prices at the international market. He observed that digital technologies had become useful tools in this regard, adding that ...

The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari, state governors and other leaders nationwide to be open to criticisms. Receiving members of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) led by its chairman, Ademola Babalola, ...

The Abuja chapter of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) has embarked on an indefinite strike over alleged irregularities in salary payment and shortfalls since the introduction of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) by the Federal Capital ...

The Federal Government has earmarked about N20 billion for the completion of sections one to four of the East-West Road awarded to contractors 14 years ago. Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, who disclosed this in Abuja during a ...

The House of Representatives has set up an ad hoc committee to probe abandoned power projects by the Federal Ministry of Power since 2018. The panel is to revert in four weeks for further legislative action. The resolution followed the ...

The House of Representatives has raised a 10-member ad hoc committee chaired by Unyime Idem to interface with Multichoice Digital Satellite Television (DSTV) and other service providers to introduce the Pay-as-You-Go (PAYG) tariff plan. The decision followed the adoption of ...