Alhaji Abdullahi Bego, Commissioner, Yobe State Ministry of Information, on Friday pledged adequate sensitization of the public for a successful implementation of the Basic Health Care Provision Fund scheme (BPHCF). Bego made the pledge in Damaturu when Dr Hauwa Goni,…
An NGO, Comfort Stream Aid Foundation (CSAF) on Friday in Abuja, distributed pocketbooks to individuals and groups on strategies to end Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG). Project Coordinator, CSAF, Theresa Anthony said the effort was in collaboration with the…
Nasarawa State Government would soon commence monthly press briefings as part of its resolve to operate an open door policy that would keep the people of the state abreast of its policies and programmes, Mr Dogo Shammah, State Commissioner of…
The Chief Whip of the Senate, Sen. Orji Kalu has felicitated with former President of the Senate, Chief Pius Anyim on his 60th birthday anniversary. Kalu, in a statement issued on Friday in Abuja, extolled Anyim’s virtues and acknowledged his…
A teenager, David Godswill, on Friday appeared in an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly damaging a bus belonging to the Lagos State Government. Godswill, whose residential address was not given, is charged with willful damage. The defendant, however, pleaded…
The NBA will hold the 2021 All-Star Game in Atlanta on March 7 in spite of a number of top players expressing concerns about staging an exhibition game amid the COVID-19 pandemic, it said on Thursday. The NBA will arrange…
The Ekiti Government will pay N7. 2 million in compensation to 24 petitioners in 14 days, Commissioner for Justice, Olawale Fapohunda, has said. Fapohunda made this known during a visit to the panel sitting in Ado Ekiti, on Friday. Reports…
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) said it had recorded a notable 62.4 per cent reduction in Road Traffic Crashes (RTCs) in the country from 40,881 in 1976 to 25,792 in 1988, its first operational year alone. The Corps Public…
An Ota Magistrates’ Court in Ogun on Friday sentenced a 31-year-old man, Lekan Amusa, to six months in the correctional centre for breaking into a house with the intention to steal. The Magistrate, Mrs A.O. Adeyemi, sentenced the convict with…
An Ota Magistrates’ Court in Ogun on Friday sentenced a 31-year-old man, Lekan Amusa, to six months in the correctional centre for breaking into a house with the intention to steal. The Magistrate, Mrs A.O. Adeyemi, sentenced the convict with…
