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A group of persons with disabilities (PWDs) under the aegis of the Centre for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) has charged other states to emulate the 10 states that have adopted domesticated the Disability Act in the country. Executive Director of ...

The Federal Government has included France, Germany and Spain among high-risk countries with widespread community transmission of coronavirus on its watch list. Earlier, the Federal Government had list China, Japan, Iran, Italy and the Republic of Korea on its priority ...

The Lagos Legislators Forum, which is the official body of all former lawmakers of the State House of Assembly has expressed concern over the crisis rocking the legislative house. According to a statement by the Spokesman of the Forum, Hon. ...

  The Nigeria Customs Service Kwara state on Friday sensitize stakeholders including textiles, shoes, veils and market women associations on the importance of continuous border closure in the Country Comptroller Mohammed Uba Garba the Coordinator Joint Border Operations Drill sector ...

Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, has declared that oil-producing states deserved more than 13 per cent derivation from the Federation Account. Speaking when members of Post-Mortem Sub-Committee of the Federal Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC), led by Mr. Kabir Mashi, visited ...

The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has said the refusal by the Federal Government to address grievances of ethnic nationalities was encouraging violent agitation. The group’s factional leader, Fegalo Nsuke, stated that unresolved issues, such as ...

National President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Rev Dr. Felix Omobude, has urged Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki and his predecessor, Adams Oshiomhole to end their political differences in order to engender peace and development of the state. ...

Coordinator of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Kebbi State, Alhaji Mustapha Mohammed has said the scheme has been in constant touch with the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) and Federal Ministry of Health to protect corps members against ...

A human rights group, Extra Step Initiative (EIS) has charged President Muhammadu Buhari to institute a judicial inquest into the recent police murder of Nigerian citizens in Rivers and Ogun states. In a petition to the President, it insisted that ...

A Lagos-based lawyer and human rights activist, Inibehe Effiong, has sued President Buhari, Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami and the National Assembly over submission of the 2019 and 2020 budget estimates of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NNDC). ...