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The Estate Pacesetters (TEP) says it has planted 60 trees in Low-Cost Housing Estate Jakande Estate, Lagos, between 2018 and 2019 to make the estate green. TEP’s Acting President, Mr Abiodun Iyiola, made the disclosure in Lagos. Iyiola said, “visitors ...

Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki has inaugurated a five-man panel to investigate financial misappropriation, among other allegations, in the state’s four colleges in the last 10 years. Speaking at the inauguration of the commission headed by former Head of Service ...

The Lagos State Service Commission has assured workers that the Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu administration would continue to improve their welfare but frown on absenteeism and tardiness. The Commissioner representing Ikeja Division in the commission, Oladipo Ajomale, during a job evaluation ...

Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Alhaji Mustapha Maihaja, has sought synergy among humanitarian actors for intervention in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states, mostly affected by insurgency. Maihaja made the call yesterday in his opening remark at ...

Special Presidential Investigative Panel for the Recovery of Public Property (SPIPR) has sought a bench warrant to arrest coordinators of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) for former Niger Delta militants from 2012 to date. Chairman of the Panel, Okoi Obono-Obla ...

Justice Ibrahim Tanko Mohammed has promised to lead a corruption-free judiciary, demanding a list of genuinely indicted persons for appropriate action. He made the pledge yesterday after being sworn in as the nation’s 18th substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) by ...

The Senate was erupted in uproar when former Transportation Minister, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, entered the red chamber for his screening. The exercise to confirm the 43 ministerial nominees of President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja had begun peacefully at 11:00am and ...

The National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA) has invented Anaerobic Digestion Technology (ADT) digesters, capable of converting organic wastes to biogas. Its Environmental Biotechnology and Bio-conservation Department (EBD) spearheaded the invention. Speaking at the unveiling of the prototype bio-digesters and bio-methane ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has concluded arrangements to commence harvesting its cotton plants in October this year. Assistant Director, Department of Foreign Direct Investment (DFDI) at CBN, Bademosi Tinuola, disclosed this yesterday in Port Harcourt, Rivers State at ...

Benue and Nasarawa states have made a pledge to keep the peace and unity between both states in the face of obvious threats to their security, unity and brotherliness. This was the consensus yesterday when Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa ...