An “alarming” number of children, most of them girls, have been used by Boko Haram as suicide bombers in the first months of 2017, UNICEF said Wednesday. The Islamists have increasingly been using children to attack crowded markets, mosques and Read more
Minister directs Zamfara’s FMC to treat patients Tambuwal, El-Rufai, DFID officials meet to check spread The Plateau State government has announced the discovery of five suspected cases of cerebrospinal meningitis in Langtang South and Mikang local council areas. The state Read more
Nigeria’s electoral agency has suspended more than 200 officers for accepting bribes to influence the outcome of the 2015 vote won by the opposition. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said late Tuesday that 205 staff were found guilty of Read more
The Presidency on Wednesday said that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo presided over the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting because President Mohammadu Buhari was engaged with other pressing state issues. This is the first time Vice President Osinbajo will be presiding Read more
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) youths on Wednesday asked the party’s national chairman, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, to apologise to former President Goodluck Jonathan for walking out on the latter and other PDP leaders at the party’s stakeholders meeting in Abuja Read more
Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State on Wednesday signed into law a bill prohibiting forceful and illegal occupation of landed property by Community Development Associations (CDAs) in Edo, after which the governor proceeded to the palace of the Oba of Read more
Concluding a 2-day workshop organised by the state government to chart the future of the sporting sector, Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has disclosed that his administration would set up a technical committee to domesticate sports policies in the Read more
The Kwara State Government has taken delivery of equipment and training tools for the International Vocational Training and Entrepreneurship College (IVTEC), Ajase-Ipo Recall that Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed last month approved the release of N143m for the procurement of modern vocational Read more
Challenges N’Assembly to make its budget open Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai has fulfilled his pledge to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, who challenged him to disclose how his security votes and local council funds in Read more
Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed says the State Infrastructure Development Fund (IF-K) has strengthened the capacity of the government to meet its obligations despite the current economic challenges. The Governor said this on Tuesday while flagging off the construction Read more