Abducted schoolgirls: SERAP seeks UN intervention
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the United Nations to “urgently intervene to secure the safe release of 230 students of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, who were abducted by members of the Islamic sect, Boko Haram.”
Local council, billboards agency bicker over N3bn revenue in Kaduna
A simmering dispute between the Kaduna North Local Government Area and the state Billboards Management Advertising Agency, KADSBAMA, over alleged expected N3 billion revenue from billboards and other sign fees has now blown into the open.
2015 Election: Advertising practitioners project N20bn political campaigns spending
Advertising Practitioners, under the aegis of the Association of Advertising Agencies of Nigeria, AAAN said that over N20billion would be spent on political campaigns in 2014.
Lagos shuts illegal orphanage, rescues 19 children
The Lagos State government, yesterday, shut down an illegal orphanage home and rescued 19 children at Ikotun, Igando-Ikotun Local Council Development Area, LCDA.
10 rescued as 2-storey building collapses in Lagos
No fewer than 10 persons escaped death after a two-storey building under construction at 11, Sand Beach Lane, off Alonge Street, Oworonsoki, Kosofe Local Government Area, collapsed in the early hours of yesterday.
Defecting govs, senators, others to lose seats – Cttee
THE NATIONAL Conference Committee on Political Parties and Electoral Matters has recommended that all elected and appointed office holders in the country who defect from their political parties to another be made to automatically lose their offices or seats.
