The Benue Command of the Nigeria Prison Service, on Wednesday appealed to the Federal Government for operational vehicles to enhance its effectiveness in conveying inmates to courts.

The UN Special Envoy for Global Education, Mr Gordon Brown, says there are about 11 million out-of-school children in northeast Nigeria due to the destructive activities of the Boko Haram terrorists.

AWKA—OVER 1000 students drawn from tertiary institutions across the country fought the 2017 Oratory Battle with a law student of the University of Abuja, Ugo Ijeoma Ndianiefo, emerging the winner of the N1 million star price.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan said questions will need to be answered over the safety of tower blocks after several people were killed on Wednesday when a fire engulfed a 24-storey building.

Zambia’s parliament has suspended 48 opposition lawmakers for boycotting a speech by the president, widening a political rift that has alarmed rights groups.

Fire engulfed a 24-storey block of flats in central London on Wednesday, killing some people, injuring at least 50 more and trapping some residents asleep inside the towering inferno. Flames licked up the sides of the block in the north Kensington area as 200 firefighters, backed up by 40 fire engines and fought the blaze […]

Britain entered a sixth day of political limbo on Wednesday with Prime Minister Theresa May yet to seal a deal to prop up her minority government and facing calls to soften her stance on Brexit days before negotiations on leaving the EU begin.

The Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria has joined others in condemning the invation of offfice The Sun Newspaper in Lagos by the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC). NPAN in a statement on Wednesday said the ‘EFCC, being a State institution and a creation of the law, cannot be above the law: […]

PRESIDENT, Computer Professionals Registration Council of Nigeria, CPN, Prof. Vincent Asor, has said that with over 300,000 unregistered Information Technology, IT, people engaging in one form of computer activity or the other across Federal Government agencies, departments and ministries, the federal government may be losing N2 billion annually.

THE Senate has asked the Ministry of Health at all levels to set up free and accessible mental health stations in all government-owned hospitals and clinics across the country.

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My boyfriend of four years left me when I put the pressure on him for us to get married after such a long courtship. He told me he was more concerned about his career than marriage and didn’t want any children for now. You can then imagine how shocked I was when I found out that eight months after we split, he not only has a new woman he’s engaged to, his fiance is also pregnant!

THE Chairman of Chemical and Allied Products, CAP, Plc, Mr. Larry Ettah, has said that the plan by the Federal Government to roll out N1 trillion real estate fund as part of efforts to develop the infrastructure base of the nation will trigger investment opportunities in the industrial goods sector of the economy.

BENIN—OVER 2,000 former Niger Delta militants, who are beneficiaries of the Federal Government’s amnesty programme, have commenced training in farming technology at the College of Agriculture in Iguoriakhi, Edo State.

A Pastor, Adeolu Babatola, is helping Police detectives in Ondo State to unravel the mystery surrounding the death of his wife, Opeyemi Babatola, whose body was discovered, on Monday, hanging in an uncompleted flat in their compound in Akure, the state capital.