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  The Niger State government says it will close all public schools in the state for two weeks to enable authorities to assess the level of threat of insecurity and its impact on schools.   The declaration was made by the State’s Ministry of Education, which said it had directed all the affected schools to […]

The Nigerian government declared on Thursday that it will not negotiate with bandits who are currently terrorizing the country from various locations. This stance was disclosed by Major General Babagana Monguno (Rtd), the National Security Adviser (NSA), who spoke with State House Correspondents at end of the weekly ministerial briefing at the State House in […]

The House of Representatives on Wednesday declared that the Federal Government cannot spend the £4.2m Ibori loot being expected to be returned to the country from Britain without involving the Delta State government. The House, therefore, asked the Federal government not to spend the amount retrieved from former governor James Ibori, until it concludes an […]

Nigerian workers, from both the private and public sectors, on Wednesday, threatened to embark on a nationwide strike if a bill that seeks to remove the National Minimum Wage from the exclusive to the concurrent legislative list, is not withdrawn from the National Assembly. The workers, under the aegis of the Nigeria Labour Congress and […]

…as governor asks bandits to lay down arms President Muhammadu Buhari has deployed 6,000 troops in Zamfara State to complement the efforts of the current security forces in the state, which has become the hotbed of banditry in the country’s northeast. Bello Matawalle, governor of the state, revealed this and also banned the movement of […]

Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State on Tuesday suspended indefinitely all activities of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in the state, after one person was killed as the crisis rocking the union escalated.   Two other people were shot as rival factions of the union attacked each other.   Akeredolu spoke through […]

AZA, Africa’s biggest non-bank currency broker, has been named in Fast Company’s prestigious annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2021, the company said Tuesday in an emailed statement. The list honors the businesses that have not only found a way to be resilient in the past year, but also turned those challenges […]

Nigerian women yesterday join their counterparts the world over to commemorate the yearly International Women’s Day (IWD), the significance of which is never lost on the toiling women, their families, human rights movements and activists. Expectedly, it was a day of reflections on the plight of women as they struggle against discrimination, abuse, economic insecurity […]

It was another kidnapping and bloodletting day on Monday as rampaging gunmen abducted at least 19 persons in Niger State and gunned down four farmers in Ogun State. The kidnapping took place in Kutunku village in Wushishi local government area of Niger and involved eleven males and eight females including. Two of the females were […]