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The Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC) has said corruption was limiting participation of women in politics in the country, stressing that it had decided to intervene in the fight against corruption to enhance political participation of women. Executive ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has commended Nigerian women for their achievements in different fields of endeavour, urging them to remain steadfast in their chosen professions and be role models to the younger generation. He gave the commendation during a visit of ...

Commissioner of Police (CP), Delta State Command, Hafiz Mohammed Inuwa, has cautioned armed herdsmen and kidnappers unleashing mayhem in the state to leave or face superior firepower of its operatives. Inuwa, who identified Isele-Azagba and Onicha-Olona in Aniocha North Council ...

House of Representatives Committee on Navy has promised that the National Assembly will explore all legal means to raise funds for the upgrade and renovation of dated facilities in the Nigerian Navy, Eastern Naval Command. Its Chairman, Yusuf Gagdi, made ...

In spite of demands in certain quarters that the Benue State anti-open grazing law be repealed, Governor Samuel Ortom has hinted that the state government will strengthen the law to include stiffer punishment for its violators. Ortom, who stated this ...

The sharp fall in the oil benchmark used for the N10.594 trillion 2020 budget has forced the Senate to begin move to review the document. Accordingly, it constituted four committees to liaise with relevant ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) to ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has disclosed that law enforcement agencies had recovered over N3.7 billion from some contractors and former directors of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Speaking during the inauguration of the agency’s Advisory Committee, comprising the nine governors ...

Professor Ifuero Osamwonyi of the Department of Banking and Finance, University of Benin, has said gender inequality was militating against women development in the country. The don spoke at an event organised by the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, ...

President Muhammadu Buhari met with the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, Minister of State Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, and the Minister of State, Budget and National Planning, Clement Agba. The meeting, which held at the State ...

Groups, including the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), Niger Delta Movement for Peace and Justice, Niger Delta Progressive Front, and the Vanguard for Transparent Leadership and Democracy (VATLAD) have faulted the move by President Muhammadu Buhari to inaugurate today the advisory committee of ...