Following a 60-day ultimatum given to residents of Ogun State to get vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus, the Commissioner for Industry, Trade and Investment, Mrs Kikelomo Longe, has called on industries operating in the state to encourage their employees to get vaccinated.   Longe made the call during a tour …

An Abuja-based man, Jolayemi Woleola has accused an insurance corporation, Leadway Assurance Company of fraud. He described the attitude and disposition of the company to his insurance claim as appalling, disappointing, annoying and frustrating. Jolayemi said Leadway Assurance Company came up with different excuses and outright lies to avoid the …

SERAP has dragged President Buhari Government to the UN over raid on Justice Odili’s home. The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Mr. Diego García-Sayán, UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, to “put pressure on the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to conduct a …

Some Supporters of Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, on Saturday in Ibadan, took to streets and staged a protest, calling for his unconditional release from custody. Recall that Sunday Igboho is currently in detention in Benin Republic over issue bothering on illegal migration, among other …

The Minister of State for Transportation, Senator Gbemisola Saraki, says the Federal Government is unbundling and commercialising the Nigerian Railway Corporation to optimise its operations and advance private sector participation. Saraki spoke at the Nigeria International Partnership Forum in Paris on the development of the transport sector. She said the …

  The crisis rocking the Plateau State House of Assembly is not abating. In this report, Kolade Adeyemi explains how and why forces within and outside the hallowed chamber are battling for the control of the legislative arm of government in the state. The current cold war between the executive …

Libyan mercenaries  are believed to have joined forces with  insurgents of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) in the Northeast as the terrorists seek to recover  lost grounds ,The Nation gathered yesterday. The insurgents struck afresh in Askira,Borno State, yesterday killing a brigadier general and three of his …

A former governor of Edo State, Chief Lucky Igbinedion, has spent three nights in the cell of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over an alleged theft of N1.6bn belonging to Edo State. We gathered that Igbinedion, who was taken into custody on Thursday afternoon, was still being quizzed on …

Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige Doctors in Nigeria have rejected a proposal by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, for physicians trained in Nigeria to work in the country for at least nine years before being allowed to migrate. This is just observed that the …

President Muhammadu Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed sadness over the killing of a Brigadier-General and 3 soldiers by terrorists of the Islamic State’s West Africa Province on Saturday in Borno State. Brigadier-General Dzarma Zirkusu and three soldiers were reportedly killed while providing reinforcement after ISWAP ambushed Nigerian troops in …