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Justice Sururat Soladoye of Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court has sentenced a 30-year-old bricklayer, Idowu Gbolahan, to life for defiling his seven-year-old niece. The trial judge sentenced him following his guilty plea to the charge of defilement brought ...

The Federal Government and the Islamic Development Bank (ISDB) Group have signed a $523,823 (N185, 957, 165) million agreement on technical assistance to build capacity for improved cotton and textile industries in Nigeria. The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Zainab Shamsuna ...

The promise by the Senate to finish work on the N8.83 trillion 2019 budget before it proceeds on Easter break may eventually not see the light of day. The fresh concerns followed the failure by its various sub-panels to meet ...

The federal government is introducing a funding mechanism to carter for patients with confirmed cases of Lassa fever in the country, the director-general, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, has said. Ihekweazu told the News Agency of ...

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) is beginning mass metering of electricity consumers nationwide on May 1. Its General Manager, Public Affairs, Dr. Usman Arabi, in a statement, said the exercise would be executed under the Federal Government’s Meter Asset ...

The Organising Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Adamawa State, Alhaji Ahmed Lawal, yesterday insisted that power must shift to the south in 2023. He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Yola that the call was ...

The actual status of air travel, its traffic and the attendant total ticket sales nationwide are yet a subject of controversy among aviation stakeholders. While the body of travel agencies, the downstream sector of the industry, has declared N525 billion ...

The Secretary, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Education Secretariat, Dr. Bala Mohammed Liman, has warned principals and workers of the territory’s secondary against indiscipline. He stressed that they must work within the stipulated rules and regulations to avoid creating a bad ...

The Federal Government has rebuilt over 4000 primary healthcare centres (PHCs) across the federation in line with the 10,000 rehabilitation target of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, who spoke while opening the six-day ...

A former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to account for the N360 billion allegedly withdrawn from the account for security. In a statement, he claimed that there ...