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About 63 bills have been tabled before the Senate and the House of Representatives for the creation of new universities, polytechnics, colleges of education since the beginning of shutdown of activities in public tertiary institutions in the country in 2022. The Academic Staff Union of Universities, Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics and Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union have warned the government against the establishmen...

The Olu of Warri, OGIAME ATUWATSE the third has lamented over the level of youth unemployment in the country, saying it is worse than a time bomb waiting to explode. The monarch, said this when he featured on a monitored television program, stressing that the current security challenges bedeviling Africa’s most populous nation is at all time high. He called on leaders to gui...

Scores of terrorists suspected to be members of the Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP) have re-attacked soldiers of the Guards Brigade at the Zuma Rock, Madalla area of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). This is the second attack within 48 hours on the seat of power targeted at the elite brigade , responsible for the safety of the Presidential Villa, military formations and other critical national assets housing the to...

A Political economist, Professor PAT UTOMI has listed increase in production and export and decreased consumption of nonessential goods as major solutions to fixing Nigeria’s economy. Professor PAT UTOMI made this statement in a television programme where he advised managers of the economy to devise means to stimulate production among the people and encourage exportation habits. ...

Edo State Governor, GODWIN OBASEKI, has revealed plans to commence the issuance of identification cards to residents across the 18 Local Government Areas of the state as a part of measures to check insecurity.According to the governor’s Special Adviser on Media Projects CRUSOE OSAGIE, the governor disclosed this while addressing stakeholders at a security meeting held in Auchi, Edo State.Governor OBASEKI said ...

President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has promised to improve the welfare and working conditions of the nation’s judiciary. President BUHARI gave the assurance when he received the chairman and representatives of the Body of Benchers at the Presidential Villa, where he cautioned the judiciary to consider the state of the economy from where resources will be drawn to attend to their needs. A...

Ogun State Government says it has inaugurated Contributory Pensions Scheme Review and Consequential Pensions Adjustment Committees to ensure improved welfare for the public, civil servants, and pensioners. It said this in a statement that this was in fulfillment of the Memorandum of Action signed by the Ogun State Government and the state chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress. In...

The Kaduna State Project Implementation Unit of the World Bank-supported Accelerating Nutrition Result in Nigeria project has secured about 1.1 billion naira for the treatment of malnourished children. The project coordinator in the state, Dr ZAINAB MUHAMMAD-IDRIS, made this known in an interview with newsmen in Kaduna on Wednesday. She disclosed that the project implementation un...

Minister of Information and Culture, LAI MOHAMMED has described as laughable the recent threat by the Terror group, Islamic State of West Africa Province, ISWAP.  The group had last week threatened to abduct President MUHAMMADU BUHARI and the Governor NASIR EL-RUFAI of Kaduna state  LAI MOHAMMEDU who made this statement while briefing state house correspondents in Abuja ...

President BUHARI has summoned a National Security Council meeting today in Abuja just  twenty-four hours after senators from opposition parties issued a six-week ultimatum to the President to tackle the security challenges bedeviling the country,.  Senator ADUDA of the minority caucus had raised a point of order asking the Senate President, AHMAD LAWAN, to discuss the country’s security situation and President BUHARI...