Facebook has added three new languages; Corsican, Fulah and Maltese to bring to one hundred and one, the number of languages on its platform. Facebook is now available in 101 languages even as more than one billion people use Facebook in a language other than English.

FOOD and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Director-General José Graziano da Silva has said that declining prices could thwart international efforts to eradicate hunger and extreme poverty unless steps are taken to guarantee decent incomes and livelihoods for small-scale producers.

The ECOWAS has set up a working group to develop modalities to address clashes between herdsmen and farmers in the sub-region. Mr Marcel de Souza said this when he was presenting the Community Status Report at the ongoing Second Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Parliament in Abuja on Tuesday.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday called for stronger global alliance in intelligence and information sharing to halt the scourge of terrorism across the world.

The President of the ECOWAS Commission, Mr Marcel de Souza says the recession being experienced in Nigeria has a negative impact on the sub-region’s overall economic performance. De Souza said this while presenting the Community Status Report at the ongoing Second Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Parliament in Abuja on Tuesday.

By Chinedu Adonu ENUGU—ENUGU State House of Assembly  Tuesday  set up a seven-man committee to ascertain the buildings built within or near the waterways in Enugu metropolis with a view to finding out which buildings that would be demolished. The seven-man committee to be headed by Hon. Obinna Okenwa, member representing Enugu South Urban, is […]

Bishops of the Owerri Ecclesiastical Province, Anglican Communion, have called on Imo State Government to “immediately halt any plan to allocate grazing fields to nomadic people.”

AHMADU Bello University, ABU, Zaria, has launched online distance learning for Masters in Business Administration, MBA, which affords students anywhere in the world the opportunity to receive lectures via customised tablets or Dual Universal Serial Bus, USB, sticks on smart phones or personal computers.

FOLLOWING the inability of Benue State government to conduct local government elections due to paucity of funds, the State House of Assembly, Tuesday, passed into law the Local Government Administration Amendment Bill, 2016, permitting the governor to appoint sole administrators for the 23 councils in the state.

A group, Gombe Patriots for Development, has called on the government of Gombe State to pay contractors who have handled jobs for the state.