President Muhammadu Buhari has written the Senate, seeking the legalisation and Institutionalisation of Social Investment Programme in Nigeria, NSIP. Buhari in the letter to Senate President Ahmad Lawan requested the Senate to consider and approve an executive bill forwarded to […]

Nigeria is yet to meet its 70 percent target coverage with the COVID-19 vaccines, according to the Executive Secretary of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA). Dr Faisal Shuaib stated this in an interview with the News Agency […]

Gov. Samuel Ortom of Benue has condoled the Catholic Bishop of Makurdi Diocese and the entire Catholic community in the State, over the demise of one of its foremost priests, Rev. Fr Michael Murphy. This is contained in a condolence […]

The Federal Government has approved 14-day paternity leave for serving male officers whose spouse delivers a baby. Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Folasade Yemi-Esan, in a circular said the leave will take effect from November 25, 2022. She […]

A Labour Party’s women leader in Kaduna State, Mrs. Victoria Chintex has been shot dead by gunmen who stormed her house on Monday night. It was learnt that Chintex, was the Labour Party’s women leader of Kaura, Kaduna State. Her […]

A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Tuesday, committed the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Usman Baba, to three-month imprisonment. The IGP was sentenced over his alleged refusal to obey a sister court judgment reinstating a police officer, Patrick Okoli. Justice […]

The Oyo State wing of the Southwest Security Network (Amotekun Corps) has recovered four AK-47 rifles, military camouflage and other items hidden in a forest in the state by suspected kidnappers. Commandant of the corps in Oyo State, retired Col. […]

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has told some Northern governors who are allegedly ‘planning’ to work for Atiku Abubakar to defeat Bola Tinubu to shelve the plan. The group in a statement issued on Tuesday, by its director Professor Ishaq […]

A small museum in south-east London has begun the official process of returning looted Benin bronzes to Nigeria. The Horniman Museum, which houses a collection of 72 treasured items that were taken by force from Benin City in 1897, officially […]

The Conference of Registered and Deregistered Political Parties (CPP) in Lagos State has endorsed PDP Governorship Candidate, Dr. Abdul-Azeez Adediran (Jandor) ahead of the 2023 general elections. Speaking, Dr. Akin Badmus, the Chairman of the CPP said that the endorsement […]