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Poland and Nigeria are to brainstorm on water resource management, among other areas of social services, a move expected to further cement the relationship between both countries just as the trade volume between them has increased to $150 million. Speaking ...

Cross River State Governor Ben Ayade has allegedly refused to recognise workers employed by Deputy Governor, Professor Ivara Esu in March this year, a situation that has caused unease among civil servants in the state. It was alleged that Ayade ...

A coalition of Niger Delta agitators has described the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal judgement that upheld the election of President Muhammadu Buhari as rape and mockery of the country’s democracy. They wondered why the tribunal ruled that educational qualifications were ...

Stakeholders in the nation’s education sector have lampooned the Federal Government over what they described as ‘endless’ negotiations and reluctance to pay the N30, 000 new minimum wage it earlier approved. They insisted that setting up one panel after the ...

Ahead of the November 16, 2019, gubernatorial election in Bayelsa and Kogi states, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has commenced a two-day training for security agencies and election monitors in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. The training organised by The Electoral ...

Troops of Operation Lafiya Dole, under the special response, Halaka Dodo Operations, have neutralised three terrorists in Kirawa border community of Borno State. Kirawa borders Cameroon, 135 kilometres east of Maiduguri, the state capital. The terrorists have been hibernating in ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned and rejected Federal Government’s decision to increase Value Added Tax (VAT) from 5 per cent to 7.2 per cent, insisting that Nigerians could not bear the burden under the prevailing economic situation. This ...

Justice Kolawole Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt, Rivers State has declared that only a competent court that can direct the National Assembly to take over the functions of a state legislature. He also held that the National ...

The Northern States Governors Forum has adopted the National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP) is a system that would engender modernisation of pastoral activities. Rising from an emergency meeting in Kaduna, it clarified that the scheme was different from the Rural ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians that his administration would not compound their hardship, but instead create an enabling environment for everyone to thrive. He gave the assurance when he received the new executives of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) ...