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Deputy Governor of Cross River State, Professor Ivara Esu, has advocated an end to abuse and violence against women in the country. He stated this when members of the Spotlight Initiative Team to eliminate violence against women and the girl ...

THE Institute of the Black World 21st Century and a host of African American civil society organisations (CSOs), including Reverend Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, have written Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to stop any plans to privatise water in Lagos State. In ...

The eight permanent secretaries who were sacked by Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, but reinstated by the National Industrial Court (NIC) in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, have resumed work. The senior civil servants, who were sighted at the state secretariat, however, ...

Imo State Judicial Commission of Inquiry on Contracts has indicted former Governor Rochas Okorocha over alleged fraudulent award of contracts during his time as governor. It, therefore, ordered the state Auditor General and the Auditor General for Local Governments to ...

Special Adviser to Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel on Political and Legislative Affairs, Sunny Ibuot, has declared that the National Population Commission (NPC) has successfully carried out Enumeration Area Demarcation (EAD) in nine council areas of the state. He ...

The Federal Government has said it is considering the prosecution of power distribution companies (DisCos) and individuals, who violate regulations in a bid to address poor electrical installations and construction in the country. Speaking at the launch of a new ...

Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami has declared that terrorist organisations now use social media platforms to recruit followers. Pantami disclosed this in Abuja, while delivering a lecture on Leadership in Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Violent Extremism in Nigeria. ...

The Federal Government promised speedy harmonisation of all citizens’ identification data in possession of various ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) to birth a single database. President Muhammadu Buhari had inaugurated the Committee on Citizen Data Management and Harmonisation sometime ago. ...

The Senate Committee on Public Accounts has threatened to sack heads of ministries, departments and agencies (MDA) that had been spurning its summons seeking their clarifications on allegations of unathourised spending contained in the recent report from the office of ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has advised Nigerians abroad to mount pressure on the National Assembly to amend the relevant laws with a view to making diaspora voting a reality. Speaking at a meeting with the executive committee members of the Nigerian ...