Borno State government said, on Monday, it would re-open public secondary schools next week, two years after they were closed due to Boko Haram insurgency.
The state’s Commissio-ner for Education, Inuwa Kubo, said in Maiduguri that Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, occupying the schools had been relocated to allow for resumption of academic activities.

Worried by statistics, which revealed that it had the highest number of malnourished children, Jigawa State government has approved N280 million to fight the menace.

CALABAR—Three persons have been reported killed over a land dispute between Alessi, a community in Ikom Local Government Area, and Isabang in Obubra Local Government Area, both of Cross River State.

Lagos—Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State has attributed the state’s immunity to the current economic recession to the virile revenue base and fiscal discipline within the state.

By Chioma Obinna Lagos—MEDICAL Doctors at the Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital, LAUTECH, Ogbomoso, weekend, raised alarm over what they described as “isolated percentage salary debacle” in Oyo State’s health sector, saying “it would worsen health indices in the state.” The doctors, under the auspices of the Association of Resident Doctors, LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso […]

Ado-Ekiti—Ekiti State Government has paid compensation to people whose buildings and structures were demolished to pave way for the construction of an overhead bridge in the state capital, Ado-Ekiti.

WARRI—Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate, NDGJM, a militant group in Delta State, yesterday, claimed that its strike force blew up the Afiesere-Ekiugbo delivery line, operated by the Nigeria Petroleum Development Company, NPDC/Shoreline Petroleum at Ughelli, Delta State, on Sunday.

ABUJA— The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, yesterday, warned lawyers to stop dragging judges before President Muhammadu Buhari.

ABUJA—The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, yesterday said the judiciary was determined to purge itself by weeding out corrupt and indolent judges.

FOR those who have been nursing hope that our country would get out of recession when government rolls out plans to combat the scourge,this may just be the time to get their sackcloth if the retreat that took place in Abuja last week is all that was in the offing.