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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 …

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 …

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 …

Immediate past Deputy Governor of Imo State, Engr. Gerald Irona has lost his only sister, Mrs. Ona Anthonia Nwobi (Nee Irona) to the cold hands of death. She was aged 61. An announcement personally signed by the former Deputy Governor and made available to newsmen revealed that she will be …

The Federal Government has raised the cost of both single-phase and three-phase electricity meters beginning from November 15, 2021. It announced this in a circular dated November 11, 2021, issued by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission and addressed to managing directors, all electricity distribution companies and all meter asset providers. …