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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has donated N100 million to victims of the recent bomb attacks in Kano. Coordinated bomb attacks rocked Kano on Jan. 20, leaving hundreds dead. The CBN Governor, Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, announced the donation when...
Roman Catholic Church leaders unveiled an Internet teaching project to help clergy around the world root out paedophiles in their ranks and protect children from potential abusers. Ending a four-day conference on child abuse in Rome, Fr Francois-Xavier...
Mr Joseph Ciroma, Assistant General Manager, PHCN, Abuja, says about N3 billion will be spent to provide free prepaid meters to electricity consumers in Karu, Nyanya and its environs. Ciroma who spoke in an interview on Friday in Abuja, said the projec...
Dr Maymunah Kadiri, President, Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Yaba, has said that addiction to Information Communication Technology (ICT) may result to multiple health complications, despite its benefits. Kad...
The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has expressed its readiness to partner stakeholders and civil society organisations, to enthrone transparency in the extractive sector. The Executive Secretary of NEITI, Mrs Zainab...
Senator Florence Ita Giwa has said that she will go nude alongside millions of Efik women of Cross River State, if the Efik throne is ‘desecrated’ by anybody again. Giwa’s threat was coming on the heels of the ongoing dispute ov...
The sum of N637, 933, 644.52 has been approved by the Delta State government for payment of 2010/2012 Students’ Special Assistance Scheme (SSAC) for 28, 849 students. Buchi Aninye, State Chairman of the Bursary/Scholarship Board who disclosed thi...
The Governor of Bauchi State, Isa Yuguda, has assured that the state-owned university would be free from interference. He gave the assurance on Wednesday when he led members of Bauchi State University Governing Council to the Tertiary Educa...
Various civil society groups that monitored the just concluded gubernatorial election in Adamawa State have commended the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on what they called drastic improvements witnessed in the recent gubernatorial el...
The Director-General, Industrial Training Fund (ITF), Prof. Sambo Wapmut, has said the agency has mapped out strategies aimed at facilitating President Goodluck Jonathan’s economic transformation agenda. Wapmut disclosed this while addressing par...
Counsel to Prof. Steve Ugbah of ACN on Thursday tendered three WAEC certificates purportedly owned by Gov. Gabriel Suswam at the Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal in Makurdi. The lawyers, led by Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN), tendered the c...
The Edo State government has urged the opposition parties in the state to be guided by the principles of constructive criticisms even as it warns against statements capable of causing frictions among the ethnic nationalities in the state. Reacting to a...
Delta State Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan has banned the use of GSM phones by school children in public primary and secondary schools in Delta State. The governor announced the ban yesterday at Ogharefe Secondary School, Oghareki Junction, during an inspe...
Otunba Olusegun Runsewe, the Director General of Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC), has stressed the need to reawaken the 774 local governments to identity the tourism potential of their areas. Runsewe made the statement on Thursday when ...
Government activities has been paralysed in Jigawa State as virtually all government officials have relocated to Abuja for the Supreme Court judement on the governorship election petition holding today. Reports in the state indicates that, the st...