The Chairman of the Southern Governors Forum, Rotimi Akeredolu has declared that governors in the region will stand by the ban on open grazing and ready to face whatever it will cost them.

Towards checkmating the increasing wave of insecurity by bandits, insurgents, financial fraudsters and kidnappers through hacking and interception of modern communications outlets which is costing the nation huge losses, the office of the National Security Adviser is to commence a 3-months Cyber Security Sensitization outreach across seven highly susceptible sectors of the nation’s economy.

Management of Osun State Polytechnic, Iree has suspended the ongoing first-semester examination for the 2020/21 session over student protest.

Vice-Chancellor, Osun State University, Professor Labo Popoola said his development plan for the school was slowed down by a crisis that engulfed it for the first two years of his administration.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo yesterday tasked the banking and finance sector to take on more transformative projects such as housing and renewable energy, among others, in ways that will significantly impact job creation and poverty reduction.

VICE President Yemi Osinbajo, yesterday raised the alarm that much of the global investment in clean energy will need to go into Africa.

The African Tobacco Control Alliance, ATCA, has said analyses of documents and court records exposed British American Tobacco Plc, BAT, as displaying contempt for African laws, business and trade and the health and well-being of Africans.

The fifth annual Goalkeepers Report released , Wednesday, by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation shows that disparities caused by COVID-19 remain stark, and those who have been hardest hit by the pandemic will be the slowest to recover.

Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has signed the anti-open grazing bill into law, at the Government House, Enugu.

By Tordue Salem – Abuja The Assistant Comptroller General (ACG) in charge of modernization of Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Mr Saidu Galadima, has accused top Nigerians, Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of the government of patronizing smuggled vehicles. Galadima made the accusation during an interactive session held by members of the House of Representatives Committee […]

Human beings will always be human beings. Regardless of their colors, education, beliefs, vocation or location, to take any of the homo sapiens for granted is for one to be grounded.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, on Tuesday said more than 5.7 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses had been administered globally, but only two per cent of them in Africa. The UN agency is urging every country to vaccinate at least 40 per cent of its population by the end of 2021, and […]

THE Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance, NINAS, yesterday, urged the United Nations General Assembly to take urgent steps to address the country’s alleged descent into chaos saying Nigeria has failed as a State.

By Joseph Erunke ABUJA–BEGINNING from next Sunday, COVID-19  vaccinations would be administered in churches during service,the National Primary Health Care Development Agency,NPHCDA, has said. The initiative,the agency explained,was aimed at ensuring that more persons receive the vaccinations at their convenience. NPHCDA’s Executive Director,,Dr. Faisal Shuaib, disclosed this, Tuesday, during a meeting with the leadership of Christian […]

By Henry Umoru THE Senate was told Tuesday that owners of private Jets in the country were responsible for the high cases of illegal smuggling of Gold outside the shores of Nigeria. Disclosing this yesterday in Abuja  at an investigative hearing on $9billion annual  loss to illegal mining and smuggling of Gold,  organised by Senator […]