The Director General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Julie Okah-Donli, has raised an alarm over what he described as new tricks employed by human traffickers. Okah-Donli who was speaking during an interactive meeting with the Edo State Task Force against trafficking in Benin City lamented that the menace […]
24 hours after admitting in evidence the statement of the late Justin Erukaa, the Personal Assistant to Sen Musiliu Obanikoro, a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has heard the testimony of the former Minister of State for Defence, on how Erukaa died. Senator Obanikoro said: “Erukaa left Lagos a day before Sallah about two years ago, […]
The Senate on Tuesday passed the 2019 Appropriate Bill for second reading. Following the passage of the bill, it has now been sent to relevant Appropriation Subcommittees of the Senate for the budget defence and presentation by Ministers and other Heads of Ministries, Department and Agencies of the Federal Government. Speaking at the end of […]
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has called on the Federal Government to commence the implementation of the new National Minimum Wage for workers in the country before the May Day Celebration. Acting President of NLC, NAJEEM YASINsaid this in an interview with journalists in Abuja. He commended the Senate for approving the minimum wage bill of […]
President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has declined assent to two bills passed by the National Assembly, citing discrepancies with global best practices and duplication of duties of already existing agencies. The bills are the Chartered Institute of Training and Development of Nigeria Bill, and the Nigerian Aeronautic Research Rescue Bill. The President conveyed his decision to decline […]
Maurizio Sarri admitted he is worried about his Chelsea team’s “mentality” after they fell to a 2-0 defeat at Everton that severely damages their hopes of a top-four finish in the Premier League. Richarlison and Gylfi Sigurdsson, converting his own saved penalty, scored the second-half goals at Goodison Park on Sunday that halted Chelsea’s recent […]
A former Governor of Ogun State and Director-General of the Atiku Campaign Organisation, Mr Gbenga Daniel, says he is considering a request by his supporters that he should lead them to the All Progressives Congress. Daniel, who was Governor of Ogun State from 1999 to 2007, said this on Sunday, one day after he announced his […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has that it will continue collation of results in Rivers state while resuming collation in Bauchi by appointing a new returning officer. This clarification was made by INEC’s director of voter education and publicity, Mr Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi who was a guest on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics. Mr Osaze-Uzzi made […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has decried the level of damage done by politics in securing the lives and properties of Nigerians across the country. President Muhammadu Buhari said this while condemning Saturday’s attack by gunmen which left at least nine persons dead in NanduGbok community in Sanga Local Government Area of Kaduna State. He urged those […]
Pictures of Nigerian scholar and author, Pius Adesanmi, was all over the internet on Sunday following his death as a result of a plane crash. Adesanmi, a renowned columnist, was onboard an Ethiopian Airlines plane en route Kenya from Ethiopia before it crashed barely 10 minutes after take-off. The scholar, a retired Nigerian ambassador who […]
