The House of Representatives, Thursday mandated its Committee on Emergency and Disaster Preparedness to probe the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, over looted N19.4 billion relief materials funds for victims of disasters. Hide quoted text The directive followed a motion promoted by Benjamin Wayo, under matter of urgent public importance …

Twenty students, two teachers and a driver from Government Day Secondary School Misau, Bauchi State, have died in a motor accident. The incident occurred on Tuesday along the Jigawa-Kano express way in Gaya Local Government Area of Kano state. Spokesman for the Bauchi state police, uwal Datti, confirmed this to …

Diamond Bank Plc, Nigeria’s retail banking giant has thrown its weight behind Women at Risk International Foundation’s (WARIF) initiative to prevent gender-based violence and abuse against women in Nigeria. The project which is aimed at educating secondary school girls between the ages of 13-16 years, will use specially designed curriculum …

…Inspects road project   President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote has assured that the Apapa Port Wharf concrete road currently under construction by his company, AG Dangote would be delivered on schedule to save the people and businesses the hassles of the traffic gridlock being experienced now. He gave the …

Itse Sagay, Chairman of the of the Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption (PACAC), has dismissed calls that youths will perform better than older people if given the opportunity to become President of Nigeria. Sagaya warned that Nigeria may regret having a youth as president because they would be embarking on …

Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo, says finding solutions to the perennial crises between herdsmen and farmers in several communities in Nigeria could only be achieved if the issue is approached with an open mind. Osinbajo, spoke on Monday through Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, who represented him during a fact finding mission …

A former Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, John Nanzip Shagaya, died yesterday in an auto crash at Amper, along Langtang Road, Plateau State.  Shagaya, who was recently named Chairman, Board of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) by President Muhammadu Buhari, was elected senator, representing …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Sunday said it had suspended one of its staff, Philomina Chieshe, who claimed that N36 million from proceeds of scratch cards and others had been swallowed by a snake. Chieshe, who works in the Board’s office in Makurdi, Benue State made the claim …

The senator representing Nasarawa south senatorial district in the National Assembly, Suleiman Adokwe, has said not less than 20 persons have been killed in latest attacks on Tiv communities in the southern senatorial zone of Nasarawa State. Adokwe disclosed this at the weekend while donating relief materials worth millions of …