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The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) and Tax Justice Network Africa (TJNA) have asked the Federal Government and states to enact strong and effective laws to check excessive tobacco intake in the country. They said that an effective tax ...

Human rights activist, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, has lamented that the proliferation of unlicensed firearms was fuelling the killings nationwide. Okei-Odumakin spoke alongside fellow guest lecturer, Professor Dele Adetoye, in Ado-Ekiti, during the inaugural Comrade Bunmi Ojo Memorial Lecture. Assailants had ...

The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has disbursed N2 million to 200 youths in Taraba State under its Micro Enterprises Enhancement Scheme (MEES). The directorate had also early this year given out N3 million to 300 beneficiaries under the scheme. ...

Leader of House of Representatives, Alhassan Ado Doguwa, has sought an end incessant security threats and economic challenges bedeviling the nation. Doguwa, who stated this while speaking with journalists at Arafah in Saudi Arabia at a special prayer to celebrate ...

The Alliance for Africa (AfA), a non-governmental organisation (NGO) has advocated stringent measures to tackle the increasing violence against women, girls and children in Imo State. Rising from a two-day capacity training organised in Owerri with support from the African ...

The Ebonyi Government has insisted that the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) remained proscribed in the South East, warning its members against holding processions in the state. The warning was subsequent upon a protest in Abakaliki by the outlawed group against ...

Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi has solicited more support for the Nigerian Army to enable it effectively tackle the nation’s myriad of security challenges. He commended the efforts of the military in the ongoing anti-insurgency war in the North East. ...

Civil society organisations have urged the Ninth National Assembly to amend the Universal Basic Education Act (2004) to extend its coverage from Junior to Senior Secondary Education from nine to 12 years. The COSs said the amendment will help guaranty ...

The Kalaekuleama Community in Degema Council of Rivers State has pleaded with President Muhammadu Buhari and Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai to probe Army’s invasion of the community. They accused operatives of the Operation Delta Safe of razing their ...

The Akwa Ibom State Government has decried the slow pace of work on the demarcation of its boundary with Cross River State, saying the situation has continued to fuel inter-state carnage and avoidable loss of lives. Addressing a joint meeting ...