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The Police have sealed another ‘torture centre’ where hundreds of youths were sodomised, flogged, chained, and subjected to various forms of inhuman treatment has been uncovered in Daura, Katsina State. This is coming barely a month after a similar centre ...

After four years of site cleaning and dredging, the Cross River State Government has announced the payment of N200m as compensation to Bakassi indigenes. The money was paid for the donation of 35,000 hectares of land towards the development of ...

The House of Representatives has decried the slow pace of justice delivery in the country, saying the backlog of pending cases in various courts remains a source of concern in the judiciary. Chairman, House Committee on Judiciary, Onofiok Luke, who ...

The Federal Nigeria Society for the Blind (FNSB) has advocated a White Cane Law to assist the blind in the country access to mobility without fear of molestation and harassment by motorists and other road users. Lamenting lack of basic ...

Despite the delay in the negotiation of consequential adjustment, the take-off date for the implementation of the new minimum wage is April 18, 2019, when President Muhammadu Buhari signed the bill into law, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris ...

The Lagos State government has declared a state of emergency on various dilapidated highways and carriage roads within the State; as the state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has directed that massive rehabilitation works on critical roads and highways across the State ...

Accountant General (AG) of Nasarawa State, Yakubu Zakka, has sought a reduction in the cost of governance to enable the state to pay salaries, gratuities, pensions and other workers’ benefits. He made the call in an interview with newsmen in ...

The Aggah Community in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Council Area of Rivers State has signed an agreement with ENI, parent company of the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) to end perennial flooding in the area. Aggah, a host community to NAOC has been ...

Imo State Governor Emeka Ihedioha has directed Accountant General of the state, Head of Service (HOS) and the Commissioner for Finance to begin payment of the retirees from Thursday, October 17, 2019. He gave the directive at a one-day Pensions ...

A member of the House of Representatives Committee on Health Institutions, Henry Nwawuba, has advocated an upward review of the N46 billion budgeted for health in the 2020 Appropriation Bill by at least 15 per cent, as required by international ...