The Founder of Afe Babalola University Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Chief Afe Babalola (SAN), has described the controversial hate-speech bill before the Senate a pathway to dictatorship. The legal icon, who chided the federal lawmakers for spending their time on such a bill, said that it was needless and unwarranted for anyone to contemplate another law to […]

The Federal Government has approved N19.52bn for three road contracts in Oyo, Niger, Kano states and the Federal Capital Territory. The approval also included N523m reviewed for the Efon-Elaaye-Erimo-Iwaraja road linking Ekiti and Osun states. It was first awarded in 2009. The approvals were made in Abuja on Wednesday by the Federal Executive Council presided […]

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State on Wednesday presented an appropriation bill of N208, 802,972,878 to the state House of Assembly for the 2020 fiscal year. Capital expenditure made up 47.9 per cent of the total budget estimate, while the total recurrent expenditure for the 2020 financial year stood at N108, 660, 282,832, representing 52.1 […]

The Sokoto state government has granted amnesty to about 8,000 suspected ghost workers and those collecting abnormal salaries under its payroll. Alhaji Abdussamad Dasuki, the Finance Commissioner and Acting Chairman, Sokoto state Steering Committee on Integrated Payroll and Internally Generated Revenue (IGR), disclose this in a news conference on Thursday in Sokoto. Dasuki said the […]

The Senate yesterday said it would not force the controversial hate speech and anti-social media bills on Nigerians.The upper chamber gave the promise as scores of protesters yesterday stormed the National Assembly demanding the immediate withdrawal of the bills aimed at regulating the social media and prescribing capital punishment for hate speech offenders. One of […]

Human rights activist and pro-democracy crusader, Senator Shehu Sani, has urged the United Nations and the European Union (EU) to immediately impose visa sanction and other restrictions against President Muhammadu Buhari and elements under his government for undermining democracy in the country. According to him, if the current trend is allowed to continue it would […]

The embattled boss of Nigerian airline Air Peace, Allen Onyema, has dissociated himself from a human rights suit filed on his behalf by an Abuja lawyer. The lawyer, Johnmary Jideobi, filed the suit after the Air Peace boss was indicted in the United States for alleged bank fraud and money laundering. Jideobi wanted the court […]

The crisis rocking the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) became messier yesterday as the Senate resolved to await the inauguration of the board members before working on the commission’s 2019 and 2020 budgets proposal as submitted by President Muhammadu Buhari. While the lawmakers were confirming the appointment of 15 nominees to the board of the […]

The Federal Government on Monday said seizures made by security agents at the country’s land borders indicated that the republics of Benin and Niger were not addressing issues that led to the border closure. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, stated this when he led a government delegation to the Seme border on […]

Elizabeth Williams takes us on a tour at the Loveworld Exhibition 2019, where partners of the Loveworld Ministry from around the world explore innovations & products and service in the year 2019.

Following its plans to ban the single-use of plastic materials, the Federal Government has advised that a moratorium of 2024 be given to formulating policy guidelines on its implementation and management. In addition, there is the need to ensure that states adopt and implement provisions of the National Health Care Waste Management Policy and its […]

The Federal Government has extended the completion date of the Lagos-Ibadan railway project to April 2020. The project was initially scheduled to be completed by February 2020, but Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, during an inspection tour of the project at the weekend, said that the contractor, China Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC), had pleaded […]