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The United Nations (UN) has petitioned Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu over the precarious water situation in the state, stressing that safe potable water remains an inalienable human right. Its Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, ...

Edo State Government has spent over N4.3 billion to settle outstanding pension arrears owed about 3,128 pensioners and N25 billion for payment of monthly pension for 13,081 retirees between November 2016 and May 2020. Mid-Year Report of the Edo State ...

Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) Muhammad Babandede has said that the decentralisation of passport operations and opening of news offices nationwide have yielded positive results. He explained that on the assumption of office, he adopted decentralisation of specific, ...

Lagos State Commissioner of Police (CP), Hakeem O. Odumosu, has disclosed that the command recorded several successes in the last one month, saying that with government’s partial easing of the lockdown last month, the usual hustle and bustle associated with ...

Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Muhammad Babandede has commissioned an approved Paint Colour for the Technology Building in a ceremony at its headquarters. He accompanied by the Management team and Building Engineers from Julius Berger the contractors ...

Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), Zone 2, Onikan, Lagos, Ahmed Iliyasu, has inaugurated three Community Policing Committees across the Area Commands, local government areas (LGAs), local community development committees (LCDCs) and divisions in the 14 area commands of the ...

Lagos State Police Command has arrested 179 persons for violating interstates non-essential travel restrictions. The violators were arrested on June 28, 2020, and June 29, 2020, in various interstate checkpoints and motor parks in the state. Police Public Relations Officer ...

Workers in Cross River State began a total strike as declared by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) despite a pull-out by the Trade Union Congress (TUC) and directives by the state government and few others. The NLC, led by Benedict ...

Local and international CSOs / NGOs from Ghana, Togo, Senegal, Brazil, Philippines, Algeria, Kenya and Nigeria, joined Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) in a two-day virtual dialogue/School of Ecology on Climate and Power Alternatives on June 22 and 23, ...

Over the past six years, HOMEF and the University of Port Harcourt have hosted the Right Livelihood College Lectures at the University of Port Harcourt – one of the nine campuses of the Right Livelihood College (RLC) in globally. The ...