Adamawa State is set to designate a court to handle rape and other sexual offence cases, the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Afraimu Jingi, has said. Jingi told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Yola on Friday that the move became necessary following the government’s concern about the rising incidences of rape […]
An Abuja High Court sitting in the Bwari area on Friday sacked Senator Ifeanyi Ubah of the Young Progressives Party (YPP).
Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has approved the reconstitution of the Task Force on farmers in the government’s forest reserves in the state. The state Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr Adegboyega Adefarati, disclosed in a statement made available to newsmen on Friday in Akure by the ministry’s Public Relations Officer, Mr Bolu Ajijo. According to […]
A unidentified man has been trapped under the rubble of an uncompleted three-storey building, which collapsed at 12 Alasepe Street, off Community Road, Ago Palace Way, Okota in Lagos State. “An adult male is presently trapped under the rubble and we have commenced a rescue operation,” the director-general, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Oluwafemi Oke-Osanyintolu […]
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, says Nigeria is not yet ready for the implementation of the ECOWAS Single Currency, “Eco,” in 2020. Onyeama, who made this known on Thursday in Abuja while speaking with Journalists, explained that Nigeria’s position on the single currency was agreed by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) […]
As mobile banking security takes on new forms of authentication technology, a report by Juniper Research found that facial recognition will likely become the fastest-growing use of bio metric hardware on smartphones. The report indicated that facial recognition will reach more than 800 million mobiles by the year 2024, up from an estimated 96 million […]
Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers on Thursday approved the payment of a monthly minimum wage of N30,000 to workers in the state’s Public Service. The approval was contained in a Special Announcement by Pastor Paulinus Nsirim, the State Commissioner for Information and Communications It stated: “His Excellency, Nyesom Wike, has graciously approved the payment of […]
Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has assured women of inclusive leadership to give them a sense of belonging and enable them to contribute their quotas to the development of the state and Nigeria at large. Sule gave the assurance while playing host to the state All Progressives Congress (APC) women leaders on Thursday in Lafia. […]
Mrs Zainab Ahmed, the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning says the implementation of Value Added Tax (VAT) increase from five per cent to 7.5 per cent will take effect from Feb. 1. Ahmed said this during the inauguration of the Chairman and Board members of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) in Abuja […]
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday declared that the Federal Government will sustain on-going efforts to end child marriage and improve girl-child education in the country. Commissioning the headquarters building of the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs in Abuja, President Buhari said it was the collective duty of all to ensure that mothers were educated, encouraged and […]