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The Imo State Government has inaugurated five committees to audit projects for 32 housing estates, resources that accrued to the state’s Housing Corporation and how they were spent during former Governor Rochas Okorocha’s administration. Also to be considered by the ...

Chief Executive Officer of Financial Derivatives Company Limited, Bismarck Rewane, has said Nigerians were wasting their time if they depended on government to manage the economy and liberate them from poverty. He said any country’s economy solely run and dominated ...

Nigeria’s consistent reliance on loans with interests, especially from the international market has been identified as a major reason for the poor state of the nation’s economy. Director of International Institute of Islamic Banking and Finance, Bayero University, Kano State, ...

A Coalition of Northern Groups (CNGs) has hinted that it had concluded arrangements to reclaim job opportunities in the North occupied by southerners in the northern part of the country. CNG’s Spokesperson, Abdul-Azeez Sulaiman, said a portal had been unveiled ...

Experts have attributed the failure of the agricultural promotion policy (APP) to achieve the desired impact four years after its launch to inadequate infrastructural facilities. According to them, when policies are not backed up by infrastructure such as good roads, ...

Lagos State Government and a non-governmental organisation, Benjamin Olowojebutu Foundation (BOF), will be carrying out free surgery on 100 residents with lipomas, breast lumps, hernia and fibroid. This is to mark Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s 100 days in office. The Commissioner ...

Minister of Women Affairs, Pauline Tallen, has promised to defend the course of the gender for national development. Describing her appointment as divine, the former deputy governor of Plateau state maintained that she never lobbied for the post. Tallen, who ...

The National Social Investment Office (NSIO) has pledged a level-playing field for all Nigerians in the execution of the Social Intervention Programmes (SIPs) of the Federal Government. The Special Adviser to the President on Social Investment, Mrs. Maryam Uwais, gave ...

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has led the Nigerian delegation to the 50th Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) Africa Region Conference in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Also in the team were Deputy Senate President Ovie Omo-Agege and members from the two ...

The Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) has faulted the four-count terrorism and treason charge filed against Agba Jalingo, publisher of an online medium, Cross RiverWatch, at the Federal High Court, Calabar. Calling for his unconditional release, the group’s national ...