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Zamfara state governor Bello Matawalle has assented to the three bills passed by the State House of Assembly. The bills assented to were ...

Kwara State House of Assembly members led by the Rt. Hon. Speaker, Engr. Yakubu Danladi Salihu on Wednesday paid a spot assessment visit ...

The World Bank has approved a $150m credit for the Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment AGILE Project, to improve secondary education ...

The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA Air Ambulance has resumed operations after successful routine maintenance and completion of all civil aviation requirements.  An ...

The Federal Executive Council, FEC, has approved N2.7bn as augmentation for building of houses for the resettlement of communities affected by the construction ...

The national leadership of Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN) has applauded Kwara state Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq for providing 25 mini-buses for ...

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has said the involvement of media in government policies and projects is key to dividends of democracy. ...

After four hours of total blackout across the country, the leadership of National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE), has suspended the ongoing strike ...

BARELY 24 hours after President Muhammadu Buhari announced the appointment of Rear Admiral Yaminu Ehinomen Musa (retd) as the pioneer Coordinator of the ...

The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), on Wednesday decried the harassment and intimidation of its members by people, who claim to ...

Operatives of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA, have arrested one Mr. Orakwe Chibuike Celestine of Marvelrock Pharmaceuticals and Stores Limited, for engaging ...

Parents and guardians must be sensitized against the increasing recruitment of children for nefarious activities by the criminal elements in society. To this ...

The wife of Ekiti State Governor, Erelu Bisi Fayemi has expressed dissatisfaction with increasing number of teenage pregnancies and all forms of abuse ...

Four students of Kuramo Senior College Lekki reportedly drowned on Tuesday at Elegushi beach, Lagos. The incident, as gathered happened after nine students ...

A yet to be identified official of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, in Abia state, has killed a commercial bus driver at ...

House of Representatives Public Account Committee, PAC has frowned at the N18.9bn worth of contract for bush clearing, land preparation, rehabilitation of soil ...

Twenty-three Nigerians with different medical cases and 151 other Libya returnees, on Tuesday, arrived in Nigeria. The returnees arrived the cargo wing of ...

Worried by the economic woes and insecurity Nigerians face across the country, the 36 states’ governors, on the platform of the Nigeria Governors ...

Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara State has been selected as the ‘Governor of the Year’ by the Blueprint Newspaper. The Award was conferred ...

Kwara state governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has disclosed that his administration would create a setback for markets like the Kara in Ajase-Ipo which are ...

The Federal Government (FG) on Monday decried the rate of rejection by some employers in the country. This was even as it stressed ...

The Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, has appreciated SP Daniel Itse Amah for rejecting a bribe of $200,000.00. It will be recalled ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Mr Ojogun Tellson Osifo as the Director General of the National Population Commission, NPC. A ...

Debunking media report that the Federal Government of Nigeria made a donation of N1.2bn to Niger Republic to support the fight against insurgency ...

Two  senior lecturers at the Centre for Peace and Strategic Studies (CPSS), University of Ilorin, Dr. Raji Shittu and Dr. Abiola Adimula,  have ...

The Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) has told the Senate that termites have eaten most of the vouchers containing details of how N17.158 billion ...

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have uncovered no fewer than Four Hundred and Forty Two 442 parcels of Crystal ...

Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, CISLAC, has rejected the proposed one-off retirement package for federal civil servants above 50 years of age made ...

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), says plans are ongoing to deploy drones and other technologically advanced facilities to the country’s borders in its ...

Operatives of the Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Saturday, August 13, 2022 arrested seven persons suspected ...

The police in Akwa Ibom State have arrested a newspaper distributor, Chidi Ngadiubi. Mr Ngadiubi was arrested on Friday at his shop in ...

Some foreign devotees at the just concluded Osun-Osogbo festival have expressed belief in the sanctity of the Osun deity, saying the annual fiesta ...

The Plateau State Government says it is owing its workers two months and not six months of salary arrears. The Head of Civil ...

The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has dismissed Corporal Opeyemi Kadiri with Force No. 509745, attached to Dolphin Divisional Headquarters, Lagos Police Command, for ...

Kwara State governor, AbdulRahaman AbdulRazaq has harped on the important role the religious and community leaders must play in ending insecurity in the ...

Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court has sentenced Aisha Wakil, popularly known as Mama Boko Haram, and her co-defendants to ...

ABDUCTORS of passengers of the ill-fated Abuja Kaduna train successfully deceived the presidency into releasing the pregnant wife of their commander, a presidential ...

President of the 8th Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has described Nigerian youths as major stakeholders in the socio-economic and political development of ...

Paradigm Initiative, PIN, has condemned the internet shutdown that occurred in Sierra Leone following political protests that erupted. In a statement signed by ...

A 19 year old Senior secondary school girl, Stella Mbayin Ndoma, has appealed to the Inspector General of Police IGP Usman Alkali Baba ...

In a bid to further boost the capacity of NSCDC personnel in peace and conflict resolution, over 100 staff drawn from the National ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has explained why his administration decided not to use maximum force to free the victims of the Kaduna-bound train abducted ...

Social media is a means of interaction between people regardless of race, age or gender.  Various social sites that have found their way ...

Osun State Governor-elect, Senator Ademola Adeleke has promised to institute sustainable youth development agenda to harness the huge potential of youth when he ...

Youths in Kwara State on Friday expressed gratitude to the Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq for nurturing future leaders and building the economic capacity of ...

Afritel Multimedia Limited, Albarka FM, has today commenced three days of training for media personnel and social media influencers in Kwara on good governance ...

A High Court sitting in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, presided over by His Lordship, Justice Nureni Kutanga, has given an order restraining ...

These are not the best of times for the PSC Chairman, Police Service Commission (PSC), IGP Musiliu Smith (retd.) as he faces probe ...

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) heard on Wednesday that suspended Accountant General of the Federation (AGF), Ahmed Idris and ...

The Troops of 195 Battalion, Operation Hadin Kai have arrested 7 Boko Haram Logistics Suppliers and kidnappers in the outskirt of Maidugiri, in ...

The attention of the Kaduna State Government has been drawn to a widely circulated message advising citizens not to enter or exit Zaria, ...

robbery incident occurred on Long Bridge, near Warewa bus stop, inward the Lagos-Ibadan expressway in the early hours of Wednesday. According to the ...

Oyo State Gaming and Lottery Board on Tuesday evening, clamped down on operators of gaming and lottery centres without an operational license within ...

Oyo State Governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde has done a minor reshuffling of his cabinet, assigning new portfolios to two Commissioners. The reshuffling was ...

Kwara State Government on Tuesday signed agreement with the Joint Public Service Negotiating Council on the implementation of the Consolidated Polytechnics and Colleges ...

Upon his release from the Correctional Centre in Ilorin, the former chairman of the Governing Council of Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, Dr Saadu ...

Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Lucky Irabor, has disclosed that perpetrators of the Owo attack on a Catholic Church have been arrested. During a ...

The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, LCCI, the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, MAN, and economy analysts have warned the Federal Government over ...

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), has distanced itself from rumours making the rounds that a special auction of over 7000 cars would soon ...

As the number of unemployed Nigerians continue to swell due to the exponential increase in population, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Dr. ...