The House of Representatives is set to investigate the N19.2 billion railway rehabilitation contract awarded to Eser Contracting Industry Company Incorporated in March 2011. The resolution followed the unanimous adoption of a motion filed by the Minority Leader, Rep. Ndudi Elumelu (PDP-Delta) at the plenary session on Monday. The...
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The Nigerian Air Force Officers’ Wives Association (NAFOWA) on Monday inaugurated the NAFOWA Little Angels school in Bauchi. NAFOWA National President, Hajiya Hafsat Abubakar, inaugurated the school at the Air Force Base, Bauchi, saying that Little Angels school was established to provide quality education for children. She said the...
The Nasarawa State House of Assembly has passed a Bill for a Law to Prohibit all Formsof Violence Against Persons and Provide Maximum Protection and Effective Remedies for Victims. The bill stipulates that perpetrators of rape are to get life imprisonment to serve as deterrent to others and for...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has rejected the results of Dec. 18 local government councils election in Abia, calling for its cancellation. This is contained in a statement by the state Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr Benedict Godson in Aba on Monday.Godson said that the ruling Peoples Democratic...
Mrs Queen Chigbo, the Executive Director of a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO), Phew Foundation International, says one out of every three Nigeria women is a victim of gender-based violence. Chigbo made the assertion on Monday during a sensitisation exercise against domestic violence at Ukpiovwin Community, Udu Local Government Area of...
UK Labour Party leader Keir Starmer has urged Prime Minister Boris Johnson to address the citizens on the “real emergency” facing the United Kingdom as a new strain of COVID-19 spreads rapidly.“We need strong, clear, and decisive leadership. The prime minister needs to be straight with people about precisely...
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has warned road users , especially the Very Important Personalities (VIPs), to abide by traffic rules and regulations during the Christmas and New Year period. Mr Uchechukwu Wihioka, Sector Commander, FRSC, Delta Command, who gave the warning on Monday while controlling traffic at...
China and the Philippines have signed contracts to build three more bridges in the capital, Metro Manila, to help improve traffic flow, the Chinese embassy in the Philippines said on Monday. The three bridges, which will cost around 240 million dollars, is a government-to-government cooperation project between the two...
By AUSTIN FAIR-NWAULU, Lagos – Frontline charity group, Handsoflove has promised to offer befitting gifts as well as celebrate with the needy this season. Founder/CEO, Gloria Omozele Ikhifa said that the gesture is to further extend a sense of belonging and encouragement and show practical and physical love to...
Prof. Sulyman Abdulkareem, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, has pledged to constantly share lawful security information with the Kwara command of the Department of State Services (DSS). Abdulkareem made the pledge on Monday, while receiving the new State Commandant of the DSS, Mr. Patrick Ikenweiwe, who visited...
As part of efforts to make people of Ekiti State to understand state laws, the Ministry of Justice has translated six laws into Yoruba language. Prominent among the laws is the Ekiti State Security Network Agency Law, 2019 establishing the Ekiti State Security Network Agency and “Amotekun’’ Corps to...
In the words of a British author and journalist George Orwell: “We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to...
The Niger Government on Monday warned that non adherence to the Coronavirus (COVID-19)protocols by residents of the state would attract sanctions, beginning from Wednesday, Dec. 23. The Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Alhaji Mohammed Idris, disclosed this in Minna at a news conference onmeasures taken by the state government...
About 16 million Afghans, including 5.5 million who were lacking food insecurity, have been in urgent need of aids in Afghanistan, a UN aid agency warned on Monday. The Kabul-based Office for Coordination of the Humanitarian Aids (OCHA) said in a statement that 16 million Afghans will be in...
The House of Representatives has increased the 2021 budget by over N500 billion. It will be recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari on October 8, 2020, present a budget size of N13.08 trillion before a joint session of the National Assembly. But having tinkered with the figures during the defence,...
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Edo Sector Command, has deployed 1,313 personnel for Operation Zero Tolerance aimed at ensuring road safety during Christmas and New Year celebrations. The state Sector Commander, Mr Henry Benamaisia, gave the figure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in...
The three unions of the University of Ilorin have commended the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Prof. Sulyman Abdulkareem, for extending to all staff members an end-of-year package. The unions include the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU), and...
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Niger has deployed 1,350 personnel on 24-hour patrol of the highways in the state to ensure free flow of traffic during Christmas and New Year festivities. The FRSC Sector Commander in the state, Mr Joel Dagwa, who made this known to the...
Beaches, pubs, cinemas and nightclubs in Ghana still remain closed until further notice due to the coronavirus pandemic, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said in an address to the nation on Sunday 20 December 2020. In his 20th address to the nation on the measures government has taken to curb...
By, Sadiq Abubakar, Maiduguri Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum on Monday visited Jakana, one of the major towns along Maiduguri-Damaturu highway, during which he expressed serious anger what has become routine attacks on travelers and villagers by Boko Haram, part of which was Friday’s abduction of over 30...