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Bayelsa State Governor and Chairman of the South-South Governors Forum, Seriake Dickson has asked all governors to maintain the principle of rotation in the election of a new chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF). He stated this in a ...

The Lagos State government has lamented the devastating impact of urbanisation and associated factors to the state’s biodiversity. Speaking in commemoration of World Biodiversity Day, the permanent secretary, Ministry of the Environment, Abiodun Bamgboye, urged stakeholders to act quickly and ...

Not less than 3,515 inmates at Mbawa Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Guma Council of Benue State are crying of hunger, diseases and lack of accommodation amid heavy downpour. Our correspondent, who visited the Mbawa camp, disclosed that one ...

The Kano State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal has urged reporters covering its proceedings to report them accurately. The panel chairman, Justice Halima Mohammad, made the appeal during their inaugural sitting, threatening action in the event of any misrepresentation. She said: ...

Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele has said the country’s failure to tackle its high rate of unemployment, may lead to another recession sooner than later. Emefiele stated this while delivering the third eminent lecture series ...

The Debt Management Office (DMO) yesterday said its longest debt paper so far-the 30-year May 2019 FGN Bond auction – again attracted over-subscription like it did the previous month. The agency submitted that it was oversubscribed byN100 billion far from ...

President Muhammadu Buhari is visiting Ogun State on Saturday, May 25, to commission a number of projects embarked upon by the Governor Ibikunle Amosun administration. The governor made the disclosure while inspecting some of the projects billed for inauguration, adding ...

The Federal Operations Unit (FOU) of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has seized two containers of animal skins worth N15 billion and meant for export. Comptroller of FOU Zone A, Ikeja, Aliyu Mohammed, said the hides were being dried when ...

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has backed former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s submission that the Boko Haram insurgency was no longer about lack of jobs for the youths, but a full-blown ‘Fulanisation’ of West Africa, Islamisation of Africa and globally organised ...

Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, said the country’s airports lacked requisite security infrastructure to check activities of drug cartels, especially those that incriminate unsuspecting travelers. Addressing an ad hoc committee on the plight of ...