set for reconsideration in four weeks
The House of Representatives has rescinded its earlier decision on three women-related bills seeking to amend the 1999 Constitution to protect the interest of women.
The bills are those on citizenship (men married to Nigerian women can apply for Nigeria's citizenship); indigene-ship (women can...
The Management team of the newly established Federal University of Health Sciences, Ila-Orangun, on Monday, paid a courtesy call on Osun Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola at his office.
The team was led by the Vice Chancellor of the institution, former Chief Medical Director of the then Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital...
A Member representing Oluyole Federal Constituency, Representative Tolulope Akande-Sadipe, has again awarded scholarships to 15 undergraduates from different parts of her constituency, who are studying various degree programmes within Nigeria.
Representative Akande-Sadipe, who is the Chairman, House Committee on Diaspora said that her decision to sponsor the students dates back...
Meets soldiers’ battalion, approves 20 fighting vehicles
For the fourth time, Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, on Sunday, undertook a humanitarian assessment of Malam-Fatori, headquarters of Abadam Local Government Area in northern Borno on the fringes of the Lake Chad.
Zulum had visited Malam-Fatori in February 2020, July...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA on Monday 7th March 2022 arraigned a suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari and six others before Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court 8, Abuja, on an eight count criminal charge bordering on conspiracy and drug trafficking.
When the charge...
His Excellency, the Executive Governor of Bauchi State, Senator Bala Mohammed Kauran Bauchi has received the report of the committee on the creation of Sayawa Chiefdom.
Speaking during an interaction session with the committee at Banquet Hall, Government House Annex Bauchi, Governor Bala expressed gratitude to the chairman and members...
‘LSETF creates 182,000 jobs in five years, upskills 12,000 youths’ – Exec. Sec.
Governor charges employment agency to assist more entrepreneurs, businesses
Lagos State Government has expanded the net of employment opportunities for young people in the State, as Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Thursday, announced a 100 per cent...
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the coming of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) 50 years ago created the awareness of the need to make climate and environmental action a priority for the entire world, while urging concerted action to make the organisation’s efforts a success story.
In a...
Says Shehu’s modesty makes anniversary less celebrated
Governor Babagana Umara Zulum on Thursday led citizens to celebrate the Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Abubakar Ibn Umar Garbai Al-Amin Elkanemi, as he marked 13th year on the throne, since March 2009.
In a statement by his spokesman, Malam Isa Gusau, the Governor...
