The Coalition of Civil Society on Good Governance (CCSG), says competence, integrity and capacity not region should form the basis for selecting Nigeria’s president in 2023. Mr Okpanachi Jacob, convener of the coalition said this at a news conference with…
Some non-academic staff of the University Of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) on Tuesday embarked on a peaceful protest over an alleged Federal Government failure to meet their demands. The workers under the aegis of Joint Action Committee (JAC) comprising Non-Academic Staff…
The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has urged the Federal Government to establish a National Health Bank that would provide single digit interest loans to the private sector for the establishment of world-class health facilities in the country. The President of…
The Federal Government on Tuesday inaugurated the extended special public works programme for the engagement of 21,000 youths, in Adamawa State. Mr Mohammed Bello, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), said at the ceremony in Yola, that the programme…
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) independent investigative panel on the violations of human rights by the defunct Special Anti-Robbed Squad (SARS) has postponed sitting indefinitely. The panel was billed to resume sitting on Monday after the Christmas and New…
The Police Officers Wives Association (POWA),Nasarawa State chapter, has empowered 25 widows of slain officers with various items worth millions of naira to ameliorate their plights and improved their livelihood. Mrs Chuza Longe, state Chairperson of POWA and wife of…
Two persons suspected to be husband and wife were on Tuesday crushed to death in an accident involving a Toyota Camry car, Sino truck and a motorcycle around Odogbara, few metres from NNPC on the Sagamu-Ogijo road. Mr Babatunde Akinbiyi,…
Austin Atakpu, the Managing Director, TCS Paymeters Ltd., manufacturers of prepaid meters, says metering of houses in the country is a gradual process and not automatic. Atakpu disclosed this during an interview with Newsmen in Benin on Tuesday. He was…
Seventy-six persons died in 615 fire incidents recorded in Kaduna State in 2020, the Director of the state Fire Service, Mr Paul Aboi, has said. The director said this in Kaduna on Tuesday. He said 139 others were injured in…
Some economists on Tuesday in Lagos urged the Federal Government to focus more attention on Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) as they remained the “engine behind most countries’ growth’’. The experts who made the call in separate interviews with…
