The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS says 82.9 million Nigerians (40.1 percent) of the population are poor. The bureau disclosed this in its 2019 Poverty and Inequality in Nigeria study released on Monday.

A trailer loaded with cow and about forty people coming from Zamfara State was intercepted at the Berger end of Lagos-Ibadan expressway on Monday. The Lagos State security personnel has however ordered the return of the trailer truck from the state. Video by Lamidi Bamidele Vanguard News Nigeria.

The Consulate-General of China in Lagos, in tandem with the Chinese Entrepreneurs Community in Lagos, weekend, donated anti-pandemic materials to the Lagos State Government to support its fight against the COVID-19. Presenting the palliatives, the community said the virus is a common enemy of humanity and can only be defeated “when we all pitched in.” […]

By Kingsley Omonobi The Army said, on Monday, that troops fighting in ongoing subsidiary operation in the North-East Theatre of Operation code-named Operation Kantana Jimlan, being part of the conclusive phase of Operation Lafiya Dole is already recording monumental successes with the mauling of 134 Boko Haram terrorists in several offensives. Major General John Enenche, […]

The Kaduna State Government might have lost about N6 billion from Internally Generated Revenue,IGR, due to the current lockdown order.

James Ogunnaike – Abeokuta Following the gradual ease of the lockdown announced by President Muhammadu Buhari in Ogun State, residents of Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital on Monday, refused to observe social distancing and wearing of face masks order by the state government as they went about their normal business activities. Visit by our correspondent […]

The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) resumed trading for the month of May with an increase of 0.30 per cent just as the country eases lockdown.

By Emma Una Six persons suspected to be cultists have allegedly been slaughtered in Calabar during the past two days. The contest between two cult groups, Black Axe started on Saturday shortly after the burial of Ene Akabom, an ex-member of the Bakassi Strike Force who was also a known cultist in the Idang-Ibesikpo-Ambo axis […]

By Chioma Obinna Medical doctors under the employ of Lagos State Government yesterday expressed worry over-relaxation of the lockdown in the State, disclosing that 16 members of the Medical Guild in the state workforce have been infected with COVID-19. Addressing a press conference on the Issues of Covid-19 Response and Challenges Identified by the Guild, […]

By Kayode Adeyemi THE Federal Character Commission, FCC, according to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is meant to be the custodian of the principle of federal character and is saddled with the responsibility of ensuring that all federal agencies and parastatals in Nigeria respect and adhere to this principle. History of FCC […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday telephoned President Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger Republic to commiserate with him on the death of the country’s Minister of Employment and Labour, Mohammed Ben Omar .

Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) and African Development Bank (AfDB) have engaged Ernst & Young, EY Nigeria, a global professional services firm, to support the development of a well-thought-out human capital strategy, focusing on education, skills development and labour.

  The Taraba State Government, has rejected 100 students (almajiris) of Islamic studies repatriated from Nasarawa State due to the flouting of procedure, as agreed by the Northern Governors Forum (NGF).

Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) and African Development Bank (AfDB) have engaged Ernst & Young, EY Nigeria, a global professional services firm, to support the development of a well-thought-out human capital strategy, focusing on education, skills development and labour.

Taraba state said it has apprehended the positive COVID-19 patient who last week fled the isolation centre where she and seven others were being treated.