By OLA MUDOPE, Ibadan – Some passengers on Thursday night escaped death as two cars got burnt in Ibadan, when a fully loaded petrol tanker, went up in flames. According to an eye witness, the incident occurred at Agodi area of Ibadan, on Total Garden-Gate road, near the Nigerian...
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As the world marks the 2021 World Toilet Day (WTD) on Friday, UNICEF has said the states of Abia, Zamfara, and Akwa-Ibom rank least while Kwara, Plateau, and Ebonyi rank highest in open defecation in Nigeria. According to it, there has been limited progress over the last two years...
The National Economic Council (NEC) says President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a fresh N656 billion Bridge Financing Facility to the 36 States. Hajiya Zainab Ahmed, Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, disclosed this on Thursday at a virtual NEC meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, which...
The Kaduna State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), has engaged stakeholders in preparation to return 10,500 repatriated ‘Almajiri’ children to school. The SUBEB Chairman, Alhaji Tijjani Abdullahi, said this at the engagement of stakeholders, held on Thursday in Kaduna. He said rewards would be given to states that achieve...
The Managing Director, Galaxy Backbone (GBB), Prof. Muhammad Abubakar, has said that the agency saved over N3 billion for the Federal Government from championing video conferencing. Abubakar disclosed this at the Galaxy Backbone Maiden Customer Appreciation Day, on Thursday, in Abuja, where customers were updated on its services and...
A 56 year-old man, Festus James, who claimed to be a prophet, has confessed to the rape of an eight months pregnant lady at Agbabu village near Ore in Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State. James made the confession while speaking with newsmen on Thursday in Akure, after...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in Adamawa, on Thursday, accused the Petroleum marketers for hoarding of petroleum products resulting to artificial scarcity of the products in Yola. Mr Emanue Fwashe, NLC’s Chairman, told journalists after a joint monitoring exercise of fuel dispensing stations in Yola, that the marketers were...
Globacom Nigeria on Thursday rewarded over 100 subscribers, the first set of winners of the ‘Joy Unlimited Extravaganza‘ promo with home appliances in Lagos. The chairman of Globacom, Mr. Mike Adenuga Jnr., said at the event that over 500, 000 prizes would be won, in fulfilment of the pledge...
The Federal Government on Thursday in Abuja said that it would address the basic demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) next week. The Minister of Finance, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, disclosed this at a tripartite meeting organised by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Femi...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – Federal Government will allow the system to exhaust itself, and will, therefore, wait for pronouncements from state governments which set up panels to probe police brutality in the country, President Muhammadu Buhari has said. The President spoke Thursday at State House, Abuja, while receiving...
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs , Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouk, on Thursday said over nine million Nigerian pupils have been benefiting from the National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (HGSFP) across the country. Farouk disclosed this at the hand over and distribution of Feeding Utensils for...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has signed into law two important bills passed by the National Assembly thereby making them to become part of the Laws of the Federation. The Climate Change Act owes its origin to a bill sponsored by a member of the House...
Railway workers in the country have commenced a three-day warning strike grounding rail services nationwide. The workers commenced the strike on Thursday and shut down passenger and cargo train services of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC). In Abuja, the nation’s capital, workers in Idu locked the station and displayed...
President Muhammadu Buhari has called on ministries, departments and agencies, to study NIPSS report on how best to ensure effective policy design and implementation with a view to implementing some of its recommendations. The report titled “Getting Things Done: Strategies for Policy and Program Implementation in Nigeria” was presented...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – In a bid to restore civil authority through the Nigerian Police in Malam-Fatori in the shores of Lake Chad, Governor Babagana Zulum has ordered nine Armored Personnel Carriers (APC) for police operations, some of which have arrived. Malam-Fatori, which came under Boko Haram occupation...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – A budget proposal of N195,355,607,143 for the 2022 fiscal year has been presented by the Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed to the Bauchi State House of Assembly for consideration and passage. The governor who presented the budget to the lawmakers at plenary on Thursday, said...
By EDDY OCHIGBO, Kaduna – Although the Kaduna State Government has remarkably sustained its efforts towards improving infrastructure in basis education, lack of toilets and other basic facilities still remain a huge challenge in primary schools, with pupil-toilet ratio of two hundred and forty-nine(249) to one toilet. A recent...
The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has said the Federal Government would allocate $200 million for the creation of 780 Agricultural Service Centres to serve as catalysts for training and equipment sharing, under the Nigeria-Brazil bilateral development programme. The Vice president, who was represented of the Federation, Mr Boss...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has said that a circular published on some social media platforms announcing the date for the next mobilisation of Prospective Corps Members is fake. In a statement signed Adeyemi, the NYSC Director, Press, and Public Relations on Wednesday...
Nigeria’s population growth that is adversely averse with the economic growth has been identified as not just a problem but the cause of poverty. Prof Jibrin Ibrahim, Senior Fellow, Centre for Democracy and Development, Abuja, and the lecturer on the theme: “Population, Rights and Peace, Mitigating Insecurity and Gender-Based...