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Sadiya Umar Farouq, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development of Nigeria The Federal Government says it has increased the cost of feeding a primary school pupil from N70 to N100 and will be spending about N1 billion daily to feed an estimated 10 million children benefiting from …

Tragedy struck on Sunday after a woman identified as Emilia Phillips, her kids and niece were reportedly burnt to death in Kaduna while they were fast asleep. According to reports, the ugly incident occurred in the night of 21st February. It was also revealed that the woman and children recently …

If union intimidates us, their requests won’t fly – Minister The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has said that it would not call off its strike if all its demands were not met. Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, the national president of ASUU, disclosed this in an interview with journalists on …

First Lady Aisha Buhari visits National Assembly. Mrs. Aisha Buhari, Nigeria’s First Lady, has spoken on her visit to the National Assembly on Tuesday where she attended the plenary of both legislative chambers. Mrs. Buhari was accompanied to both chambers of the National Assembly by the Minister of Finance, Budget …

Fire is currently raging inside the headquarters of the Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Finance in Abuja. The Ministry’s building located within the Central Business District is also adjacent Federal Secretariat in the nation’s capital. An witness disclosed that operatives of the federal fire service are yet to arrive as at …

Gbenga Daniel Abosede Ogunsola, the wife of a police officer who died at the home of the former Ogun State governor, Gbenga Daniel, has said the family does not believe the official account of how her husband died. Ogunsola, said the family also rejected a N1 million offered them. The …

Students in the Niger Delta region have called for a permanent solution to the incessant strike action by university lecturers in the country, and demanded the inclusion of students in negotiations by the Academic Staff Union of Universities ( ASUU). ASUU on February 14th embarked on a one-month strike over the …

Gbenga Daniel Adeleke Ogunsola, a police sergeant, on Saturday died in the compound of the former governor of Ogun State, Gbenga Daniel, in the Sagamu area of the state. The police officer reportedly died after one of the drivers of Mr Daniel knocked him down while he (the police officer) …

Sarah Ochekpe, a former Minister of Water Resources, has been sentenced to imprisonment by a Federal High Court sitting in Jos over a N450 million money laundering scandal. Ochekpe, who served as Minister under former President Goodluck Jonathan, was sentenced alongside a former chairman of the People Democratic Party in …

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday granted permission to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, to keep the suspended DCP, Abba Kyari for two more weeks to enable the agency complete its investigation. Justice Zainab Abubakar issued the order for Kyari’s further detention while ruling in an …