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The Nigerian government has launched a campaign to protect the girl child. The campaign was launched on Tuesday by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. He explained that all departments and agencies will be made to ensure compliance as the country has set a 2030 target to totally end child marriage. The campaign, which is launched alongside […]

The Central Bank of Nigeria, (CBN) has said that it’s Anchor Borrowers Programme for the promotion of Agriculture has positioned Nigeria to begin exportation of rice by 2017.  The apex bank made the revelation on Tuesday in Yenegoa, Bayelsa. The Anchor Borrowers Programme of the CBN and the Presidential Committee on Rice Production launched in […]

The Zamfara State Governor, Abduaziz Yari has on Tuesday met behind closed doors with President Muhammadu Buhari regarding current outbreak of banditry in the state which has left scores of people dead. Earlier the governor had in a  broadcast on Monday said 155 persons had been killed by bandits in less than a month in […]

President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday in Abuja said his administration will heavily utilize talents and skills of local engineers to rebuild ailing infrastructure across the country, describing the engineers as ‘‘competent and cost effective.’’ Speaking at an investiture ceremony by the Nigerian Academy of Engineers (NAE) at the State House, President Buhari said the well-trained and […]

President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday warned that the two million displaced Nigerians in refugee camps must be properly resettled if the country is to avert a relapse into another social crisis. Speaking at a meeting with Sheikh Sharif Mohammed Kabir Ibn Mohammad, the world leader of Tijjaniya Islamic Movement at the State House, the President lamented […]

The National Assembly has approved the virement request of president Muhammadu Buhari with an increment of over N33 billion. The process leading to the request which was approved on Tuesday was initiated last month when Buhari requested for N180billion virement from the 2016 Appropriation Act but both chambers of the National Assembly jerked it up. […]

President Muhammadu Buhari Monday assured that his administration’s reforms will ensure that Nigerians who spent the productive years of their lives serving the nation will not experience difficulties in getting their pensions. Speaking at a meeting with Barrister Sharon Ikeazor, the Executive Secretary, Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) at the State House, the President directed […]

A Senior Legislative Assistant with the National Assembly, Mr Abubakar Doki on Monday collapsed and died in the National Assembly premises. The deceased who was said to be in his early 50, was until his death, a Senior Legislative Aide (SLA) attached to the office of the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yussuf […]

The Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos on Monday heard a witness describe how foreign currency was moved from Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia chambers and deposited into her account in Diamond Bank. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mr Ademola Oshodi was testifying at the ongoing trial of Ofili-Ajumogobia, a serving Justice of the Federal […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the results of weekend’s election in Ondo State, calling for the cancellation of the result producing Rotimi Akeredolu as governor-elect.  The party condemned the election as ‘a charade’ and not the true reflection of the will of the people of Ondo State. In a statement by its spokesman, […]

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has described the controversial Federal High Court Abuja judge, Justice Okon Abang as a cancer that is capable of destroying the entire judiciary in Nigeria if nothing is done to curb his excesses. The governor, who said Justice Abang was now seeing his position as a judge as a […]

The National Working of the PDP met to review the State of the Party and the elections in Edo and Ondo State.  And identified impunity and lack of respect for the PDP constitution and the rule of law as the major problems that led to our failure in the Edo and Ondo Governorship elections. The […]