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The Lagos State House of Assembly has passed the bill that prohibits open cattle grazing in the state. The House also passed the State’s Value Added Tax (VAT) bill with Speaker Mudashiru Obasa directing the Acting Clerk of the House, Olalekan Onafeko, to transmit a clean copy to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, for assent. The […]
The government of Kaduna State has released a new resumption schedule for its schools after months of disruption in the school calendar due to violent attacks by bandits in the state. The state’s commissioner for education, Shehu Makarfi, disclosed this on Thursday while taking part in a virtual workshop organised by the Education Writers’ […]
A member of staff of Nigerian Television Authority, (NTA), Chukwu Odiahu, has been reportedly stoned to death by some yet-to-be identified persons in Okene, Kogi State. DAILY POST reported that late Odiahu who works at the engineering department of the NTA booster station in Okene, met his death in the hands of his assailants […]
The Itsekiri Liberation Group, ILG, has threatened to challenge the Federal Government in the law court, if it goes ahead to constitute a substantive Board for Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, without appointing an Itsekiri indigene as Chairman or MD, insisting, “Any attempt to constitute a substantive Board of the NDDC with any other […]
President Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) has arrived in Imo State. Buhari landed at the Sam Mbakwe Airport in Owerri, the state capital where he was received by dignitaries. The Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodinma, in a post on Facebook, stated that the President is in the state to commission some projects. He wrote, “It […]
The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has urged the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board to stop giving “preferential scores” to students in Northern Nigeria who sit the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. He stated this on Monday as a guest on Channels Television’s ‘Sunrise Daily’ breakfast programme. According to the governor, students in the North […]
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has disclosed that so far 2, 897, 201 eligible persons had taken the jab across the 36 States and the Federal Capital Territory. The Executive Director, NPHCDA, Dr. Faisal Shuaib, disclosed this on Tuesday, in Abuja, at the National Vaccines briefing. The News Agency of Nigeria […]
The Department of State Services (DSS) says it did not disperse doctors attending a recruitment exercise organised by Saudi Arabia in the federal capital territory (FCT). While a recruitment exercise for doctors by Saudi Arabia was held in Lagos earlier in the week, another was held in Abuja on Thursday. However, there are reports […]
Nigeria’s gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 5.01 percent in the second quarter of 2021 — strongest growth since fourth quarter 2014. This is according to the second-quarter GDP report released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Wednesday. This also marks three consecutive quarters of growth following the negative growth rates recorded […]
The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Leo Irabor, has allayed the fears of Nigerians on the ongoing mass surrendering by members of the dreaded Boko Haram sect. Irabo gave the advice in a statement issued by Maj.-Gen. Benjamin Sawyer, Director, Defence Information at the end of an interactive session which the CDS had […]
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