The Nigerian Army has urged the public to disregard the claims by Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) that it had captured military personnel and equipment in Lake Chad region. In a statement yesterday in Maiduguri, Borno State, spokesman of ...
Read More »President Buhari commends Ecobank’s financial inclusion drive, support for SMEs
President Muhammadu Buhari has commended Ecobank for its various initiatives targeted at promoting financial inclusion in the country, noting that it is key to the government’s diversification agenda. Buhari spoke when the Board of Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI) visited him ...
Read More »Architects get leave to file contempt proceedings against Minister of Housing, others
Justice Rilwan Aikawa of the Federal High Court, Lagos has granted leave to two architects to file contempt proceedings against the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, and two others for allegedly disobeying court order. Fashola, Architects Registration ...
Read More »Under-five deaths reduce by 47 per cent in Nigeria, others, says report
Nigeria has recorded a major feat in its infant mortality rate profile by almost halving her under-five deaths. The feat was contained in a new report released yesterday by Save the Children, an international organisation working to deliver change for ...
Read More »Lawmaker seeks protection of helpless teenagers, others
Representative of Obokun Constituency in the Osun State House of Assembly, Oyintiloye John Olatunbosun, has said Nigerians should use this year’s Children Day celebration to scale up activities aimed at restoring the dignity of the child. Olatunbosun, who highlighted the ...
Read More »Over 100 kids get etiquette mentorship to mark day
Media personality and former Big Brother Nigeria (BBN) finalist, Alex Asogwa popularly known as Alex Unusual, has mentored over 100 kids between the ages five and 13 years to mark the Children’s Day celebration. The event, which held in Lagos ...
Read More »Stakeholders caution Nigerians against hiring minors as labourers, urge better investments in education sector
Private sector stakeholders have urged Nigerians who engage children for one form of labour or the other to desist from doing so, saying every child should have access to quality education regardless of religion or social status. Speaking at separate ...
Read More »Court sacks APC lawmaker-elect in Imo State, awards plaintiff N13.5 million
A Federal High Court sitting in Owerri, Imo State has sacked All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Ugonna Ozuruigbo as House of Representatives member-elect for Nkwerre/Njaba/Isu/Nwangele Federal Constituency of the state. In suit marked FHC/OW/CS/25/2019 between Harrison Nwadike (plaintiff) and APC, ...
Read More »Vandals hurt host communities more than government, says Buhari as N’Delta ministry scores self-high on performance
President Muhammadu Buhari says the destruction of oil facilities by vandals operating in the Niger Delta hurts the host communities and the environment more than it hurts government. Receiving South-South Monarchs Forum (SSMF) led by King Edmund Daukoru, Mingi XII, ...
Read More »Abuja Internally Displaced Persons lament government’s failure, seek land for farming
ICPC boss tasks youths on anti-corruption fight, nation’s future Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Abuja have lamented Federal Government failure to provide good welfare packages for its, especially the internally displaced populace. Public Relation Officer (PRO) of Abuja IDPs camp, ...
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