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The Kaduna State Police Command has hinted that it was negotiating with abductors of the six female students, a teacher and a matron, who were kidnapped from their school on Thursday, October 3, 2019. Commissioner of Police (CP) in the ...

UNILAG, UI move to tackle the menace, Kano Poly disowns teacher The Senate has revisited the sexual harassment bill sponsored by Senator Ovie Omo-Agege (APC, Delta Central) and passed by the Eighth Senate. It specifies a five-year jail term for ...

The Senate has begun debate on the general principles of the 2020 Appropriation Bill of N10.33tr. Of the total amount, N556.7b is for statutory transfer, while debt servicing gets N2.7tr. Contributing, Gabriel Suswam (PDP: Benue) noted that the budget was ...

The parley between the Federal Government and organised labour in Abuja has raised a fresh hope for the implementation of the consequential adjustment component of the N30, 000 national minimum wages. Approved on April 18, 2019, by President Muhammadu Buhari, ...

The Global Maritime Security Conference (GMSC) is seeking the criminalisation of insecurity and proceeds of illegal maritime activities. Rising from a three-day engagement at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, the forum wanted the acts to be treated like the case ...

*Staff members walk against cancer* Ecobank Nigeria has pledged its commitment and financial support for the fight against non-communicable diseases. Managing Director, Ecobank Nigeria, Patrick Akinwuntan, said this at the weekend during the bank’s cancer awareness walk in Lagos as ...

The Federal Government has disclosed that plans were underway for the reclamation of 1,260 abandoned mining sites nationwide. Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Olamilekan Adegbite, dropped the hint at a media briefing in Abuja to herald the 2019 Mining ...

An employee of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), Ukwunna Anthony, has been arraigned at a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Abuja by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) for allegedly defrauding job seekers of ...

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has backed the commitment of both the executive and legislative arms of government to ensure the national budget is returned to the January-December cycle. Expressing the hope of the early passage of the 2020 ...

The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has charged the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to take the issue of migration seriously with a view to avoiding a rise in extremism. The immediate past governor of Osun State, who ...