The World Health Organisation (WHO) said Friday it was working with social media companies in a bid to quash misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic — including on more light-hearted apps popular with teenagers. The WHO said it had started working with TikTok and Snapchat since the pandemic broke out in a bid to reach out […]

Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti has attributed the delay in implementation of the new minimum wage for senior civil servants to the spread of the COVID-19 to the state and its negative consequences.

The National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) has released guidelines for handling infectious wastes, within the context of the Coronavirus pandemic

Police have arrested Lawal Abdullahi Izala, ‘m’, aged 70yrs, Bahajaje Abu, ‘m’, aged 30yrs and Hamza Abubakar, ‘m’, aged 27yrs all of Gafai Quarters, Katsina, Katsina state for insulting President Muhammadu Buhari and the executive governor of Katsina state, Aminu Bello Masari, CFR.”

A London judge Friday struck out elements of the Duchess of Sussex’s high profile claim against a tabloid newspaper group for publishing a letter she wrote to her estranged father. The US one-time actress, who with her husband Prince Harry is waging an increasingly public war with some media outlets, is suing Associated Newspapers, which […]

Gov. Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has promised to uplift the standard of education in the state. “God will not forgive me, if after realising the decay in the sector, I leave office without doing anything,” Sule said on Friday in Lafia while receiving a report on baseline survey on educational wellbeing of primary and secondary schools.

Workers Day: Sightsavers Nigeria, an NGO, on Friday said about 90 per cent of Persons Living with Disabilities (PLwDs) are unemployed. The organisation also attributed the under-employment to societal discrimination. Mr Rasak Adekoya, the Communication Officer of Sightsavers Nigeria, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja to celebrate Workers Day. Adekoya urged government at all […]

Threatens industrial unrest By Victor Young The Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, on Friday, alleged plots by employers in the maritime industry to slash workers’ salaries and other benefits. The union in a May Day message warned the employers to prepare for war as organized Labour would not accept such criminal and wicked plots […]

The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, on Friday donated ten truckloads of assorted food stuff to over five thousand indigent households in Kebbi. 

Members of the Patriots of Ijaw Struggle, a socio-political group in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, have again called on the immediate past Governor of Bayelsa State, Hon. Seriake Dickson to contest the vacant senatorial seat of the region in the forthcoming senatorial bye-election. The group, in a communique made available to newsmen said […]