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A section of the Ogun State Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON) has appealed to Governor Dapo Abiodun and the House of Assembly to reverse the suspension of 20 councils and 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) chairmen. The ...

Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has sought approval of the state House of Assembly to stop illegal markets, motor parks and street trading in the state. He made the request in a document titled: Rivers State Street Trading, Illegal Markets ...

A faith-based group, Mothers of the Nations Oranisation for Peace and Development, led by its President, Bishop Priscilla Otuya, has charged the Federal Government to rise up to the nation’s insecurity challenges before the situation leads to anarchy. Speaking at ...

The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) has enjoined Nigerians to advocate urgent restructuring of Nigeria to end farmers and herders clashes in country. PFN expressed concern at the 30-day ultimatum given to the Federal Government by a Northern group, whose ...

Igala indigenes in Kogi East Senatorial District have rejected Federal Government’s suspended grazing reserves, otherwise known as Rural Grazing Areas (RUGA) settlements earlier proposed for Fulani herdsmen across the country. The Igala leaders took the decision in Kaduna during the ...

A Non-Governmental Organisation, RARDUJA International, has organised a workshop for nurses in Imo State on the dangers of illegal migration. Founder of the NGO, Dr. Endy Duru, represented by the National Coordinator, Andy Duru, told newsmen at the weekend in ...

The Tamaidukka Group (also known as TMDK Industries) with bias for estate development, oil and gas is to develop a $25 million agro-based industrial park in Kaduna State. The facility is to make use of soya beans and cottonseeds for ...

Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has pleaded with the Federal Government to urgently review the revenue formula to enable states and local governments to pay the new N30, 000 minimum wage. He said Ondo State was not against the new ...

Former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, and his successor, Adams Oshiomhole, have expressed different views on the crisis in the Edo State House of Assembly. Reacting to the moves by the House of Representatives ...

The Nigerian Navy has said 10 crewmembers of the Turkish-flagged general cargo vessel, MV PAKSOY 1, attacked by pirates at the weekend in the Niger Delta was still missing. Waylaid South West of Brass, the naval high command said the ...