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Immediate past Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has canvassed public and private participation in funding infrastructure in the country. Speaking at the launch of ‘Frontier Capital Markets and Investment Banking: Principles and Practice from Nigeria’, a book ...

Local government workers in Kogi State have issued a five-day ultimatum beginning from Monday, July 15 to Friday, July 19, 2019 to directors and treasurers of councils in the state to comply with their demands. They are seeking compliance with ...

Cross River State Governor Ben Ayade has declared July 30 every year as public holiday for planting trees in a ceremony tagged: The Green Carnival. Consequently, all schools, homes, ministries, government agencies and departments, banks, hospitals and all business premises ...

Military operation code named Operation Whirl Strike (OPWS) said it has repressed Benue State’s most wanted notorious militia, Terwase Akwaza (aka Gana) and dismantled all illegal checkpoints manned by his men. Force Commander of OPWS Major General Adeyemi Yekini disclosed ...

The House of Representatives has urged the Nigerian Mission in Tripoli, Libya to issue emergency travel documents to stranded Nigerians to enable them return home. This was sequel to the adoption of a motion by Rep. Chukwuma Umeoji (APGA-Anambra) at ...

Disturbed by the falling standards of education, the Senate has resolved to make computer literacy compulsory for teachers and pupils in private and public schools nationwide. The resolution, which followed a motion sponsored by Akon Etim Eyakenyi (Akwa Ibom South), ...

The inability of organised labour and the Federal Government to arrive at common consequential figures for the implementation of the N30,000 national minimum may result in a series of protests by workers. Government negotiation team’s ‘take it, or leave it’ ...

House of Representatives Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila has said that the Ninth National Assembly will give special budgetary attention to the three senatorial districts of Zamfara State to resolve the issue of insecurity. The Speaker, who stated this during his visit ...

The House of Representatives committee set up to reconcile aggrieved members of the Bauchi House of Assembly has begun meeting with critical stakeholders in the state. The 12-man panel, headed by Musa Sarkin Adar, disclosed that the lower legislative chamber ...

Imo State Governor Emeka Ihedioha has appealed to monarchs and other personalities in the state to ask his predecessor, Senator Rochas Okorocha (APC, Imo West), to stop insulting and demeaning the office of Imo governor. The appeal was prompted by ...