THE United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has unanimously adopted a resolution declaring 2021 as the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour, and has asked the International Labour Organization to take the lead in its implementation. 

The Nigerian Civil Society Situation Room has released its final report on the 2019 Nigeria General elections, with 20 recommendations to improve Nigeria’s electoral system.

ABUJA—THE Olu of Warri, His Majesty Ogiamen Ikenwoli, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to open up ports facilities in the Southern and Eastern corridors to help decongest the Lagos ports, which has grounded economic activities in Lagos.

THE Federal Government has pleaded with market authorities in the country to join forces with government in the fight against child labour.

The United Nations said, yesterday, that Boko Haram insurgency was far from over in Nigeria.

Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, yesterday, issued a seven-day strike notice to the Federal Government to compel Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, to honour the agreement it reached with the union on June 20, failing which members would down tools and begin an indefinite strike.

NIGERIANS sighed with relief when the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, debunked an alleged plan to increase the N145 per litre pump price of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS or petrol.

Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has said itself, PANDEF, Afenifere and Middle-Belt Forum stayed away from the security round-table organised by former military Head of State, Abdulsalami Abubakar, because they were lumped together with Miyetti Allah and killer-herdsmen.

The Islamic Movement in Nigeria, IMN, is to challenge the court order obtained by the Federal Government to ban its operations, Vanguard learned in Kaduna, yesterday.

BENIN CITY—IF the Federal Government’s strategy to partner the private sector as parts of its youths engagement initiative to cultivate no fewer  than one million hectares of oil palm succeeds, the country would regain its number one position as the major producer and supplier of palm oil in the world.

A digital agricultural commodity trading and logistics platform, Agrorite.com has been introduced to help small holder farmers sell their farm produce to local and international buyers at fair and competitive prices.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has challenged Africa’s young entrepreneurs to positively change the “one-dimensional narratives of Africa” through their skills, enterprise and vision.

BUILDINGS are neither designed nor constructed to collapse. A fully or partially collapsed building is, therefore – and naturally – a failure or a failed building.

THE Biblical anecdote of the rejection of Jesus Christ in his home town of Nazareth, a town in Galilee, always fascinates me. The story, variously told in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, narrates how Jesus went to the synagogue to teach on a Sabbath day, upon return to his birthplace, accompanied by his disciples.

Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn has said that it is Anthony Joshua that will decide the venue of his much expected rematch with Andy Ruiz Jr and not the Mexican even though Ruiz “never wanted” it in the UK.