The Nigeria Governors’ Forum has said it will collaborate with the National Youth Service Corps and may consider establishing a trust fund to reduce the number out-of-school children in the country, estimated at about 20 million. Despite the Universal Basic Education Board Act of 2004 stipulating that basic education is both free and compulsory for…
The Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission has shifted the resumption of the 2024 pilgrimage to Jerusalem to May from the earlier March proposed date. The Executive Secretary of the commission, Rev Stephen Adegbite, disclosed this to our correspondent, while also stating that the First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, would no longer lead a delegation of Christians…
The military Joint Task Force, Operation Delta Safe, in the Niger Delta, said it had rescued nine persons, including a naval rating and a corps member, kidnapped by gunmen on March 29 along the Ugheli-Patani axis of the East-West Road. The JTF Commander, Rear Admiral John Okeke, told the News Agency of Nigeria that the…
The House of Representatives Committee on Disabilities has invited fast-food restaurant operator, Kentucky Fried Chicken, over the alleged ill-treatment of Mr Adebola Daniel, a person living with disability and son of a former Ogun State governor, Senator Gbenga Daniel. The chairman of the committee, Bashiru Ayinla, disclosed this on Tuesday while briefing House of Representatives…
The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority has said that some passengers harass officers of the agency out of ignorance while defending drivers of commercial buses, commonly known as danfo. The Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department of LASTMA, Adebayo Taofiq, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday. He also…
The military Joint Task Force, Operation Delta Safe, in the Niger Delta, said it had rescued nine persons, including a naval rating and a corps member, kidnapped by gunmen on March 29 along the Ugheli-Patani axis of the East-West Road. The JTF Commander, Rear Admiral John Okeke, told the News Agency of Nigeria that the…
The House of Representatives Committee on Disabilities has invited fast-food restaurant operator, Kentucky Fried Chicken, over the alleged ill-treatment of Mr Adebola Daniel, a person living with disability and son of a former Ogun State governor, Senator Gbenga Daniel. The chairman of the committee, Bashiru Ayinla, disclosed this on Tuesday while briefing House of Representatives…
The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority has said that some passengers harass officers of the agency out of ignorance while defending drivers of commercial buses, commonly known as danfo. The Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department of LASTMA, Adebayo Taofiq, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday. He also…
The Lagos State Government said it arrested and prosecuted no fewer than 219 persons for crossing expressways in different parts of the state in March. The spokesperson for Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps, Lukman Ajayi, revealed this on Tuesday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria. Ajayi said the offenders were arrested at…
The Lagos State Waste Management Authority Monitoring and Enforcement Team dislodged scavengers who recently erected illegal structures under the Falomo Bridge along the Nigerian Law School on Victoria Island. The state Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, in a post on X on Tuesday, said the structures were erected by scavengers who were…
In spite of the extant law banning the operations of commercial motorcycles within the Jos and the Bukuru metropolis, operators have continued to defiantly contravene the law. Arewa PUNCH reports that the law, which was passed by the Plateau State House of Assembly in 2012 and assented to by former Governor Jonah Jang, also prohibits tricycles…
Members of communities playing host to multinational organisations have been urged to leverage the presence of these companies for the advancement of their lives and that of their localities. This was the thrust of the lecture at the bi-annual community training for communities neighbouring Okomu Oil Palm Company PLC, according to a statement on Tuesday….