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The Federal Government is to reduce capital vote from the current 32 per cent to 17 per cent in the 2020 appropriation bill. Conversely, it plans to raise recurrent expenditure to 79 per cent from 68 per cent in the ...

The protest in Gongoshi village of Mayo-Belwa council area of Adamawa notwithstanding, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo yesterday inaugurated the National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP) in the state. Commending their peaceful conduct, Osinbajo, however, informed the protesters that the policy was ...

The Lagos State Police Police Public Relations Officer DSP Bala Elkana In a press release said On  6th of September, 2019  at about 9:000, Imota Police Station received a piece of information from a reliable source that some cultists on ...

Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigerian (PFN) has called on Nigerians not to engage in reprisals against South Africans in respect of the xenophobic attack on Nigerians in South Africa. It advised that Nigerians in and outside the country should rather exercise ...

The Federal Government and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have stepped up efforts to eradicate tropical diseases in 10 local councils of Cross River and over 490 other areas across the federation. Speaking during a meeting at ...

 Chairperson of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Soyata Maiga has agreed to ‘take appropriate actions’ on request by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) to sue South Africa over xenophobic attacks on other Africans. The development, analysts ...

A driver has been confirmed dead and six students of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) injured in a head-on-collision involving a Vectra car and a Sharon bus along the Bauchi-Jos highway in Miri village, few kilometers away from the Bauchi State capital. Public ...

The Defence Headquarters has denied the claim by the Human Rights Watch (HRW) that the Nigerian armed forces were arbitrarily detaining children in detention facilities across the North East. In a statement, yesterday by Acting Director, Defence Information, Colonel Onyema ...

The 1 Division of the Nigerian Army has recovered and handed over 14 sheep and 120 cows believed to have been rustled along Kaduna-Abuja highway to the Kaduna State Government. The division’s Garrison Commander of the Division, Brigadier General Jimmy ...

The West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP) Nigeria has lamented the increasingly violent conflicts in the country, which has resulted in wanton destruction of lives and property. This follows its establishment of a weekly live radio programme in seven states ...