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 […]

The Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) has shared N716.298 billion to the three tiers of government for the month of December 2019. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Alhaji Isa Dutse disclosed this while addressing newsmen on the outcome of the meeting in Abuja on Thursday. Dutse explained that the amount […]

Islamic State-aligned jihadists have released five local aid workers abducted last month in violence-wracked northeastern Nigeria, security sources and one of those freed said Thursday. The aid workers were seized along with other passengers in two separate incidents in December when fighters from Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) disguised as soldiers intercepted vehicles on […]

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said that there would be no registration in the 243 CBT centres where a third-party recruitment examination would take place across the nation on January 16, 2020. Dr Fabian Benjamin, Head, Media and Publicity, JAMB disclosed this in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja on […]

– Donates N100m for a scholarship of deceased soldiers’ children Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has expressed concern over the intractable nature of the fight against terrorism in the North East, charging Nigerians to unite and motivate the Armed Forces to defeat the rebels. He stressed that it was necessary for the country to do […]

Delta State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the main opposition party in the state, the All Progressives Congress (APC), of mischief and insensitivity to the plight of civil servants. The APC had criticised Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s administration of shortchanging civil servants in the state and playing games with labour leaders in […]