Lagos State Government in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has begun the rehabilitation of its coconut belt with a view to ensuring the sustainable production of coconut seedlings for the cultivation of no fewer than ten million coconut tress by 2014.

Securing and gaining local support is a critical success factor in counter-insurgency operations such as we have in Nigeria’s North East

The ongoing construction of the Integrated Farm Estate in Ogun by the National Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA) will generate N2 billion when completed as well as engage 1500 beneficiaries.

The use of medical cannabis is one of the main issues for discussion as pharmacists, under the aegis of the Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria, ACPN, next month hold their 40th anniversary and Annual National Scientific Conference to deliberate on pressing national issues as pertaining to their profession. Tagged “Abuja Declaration: Equipping Community Pharmacists for […]

By Godfrey Bivbere  The scramble for the Tin-can Island shoreline may have become more complicated with the revocation of existing licenses issued to previous beneficiaries last week and re-awarding of the space to new beneficiaries by the management of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA. The allocation to the earlier beneficiaries which was for a period […]

By Yinka Kolawole,  with agency report The Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mohammed Nami, has said that the impending registration of Twitter and other social media platforms in the country is expected to boost the agency’s projected revenue for 2022 by about N5 trillion. Nami stated this when he appeared before the […]

By Omeiza Ajayi – Abuja The crisis of confidence afflicting the Benue State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, assumed a curious twist on Thursday following the decision by a chieftain of the party and Commandant General of the Nigeria Peace Corps, Dickson Akoh, to retrieve the Jeep he had given the state party […]

….For flouting govt’s anti-open grazing law By Dayo Johnson The Ondo State security outfit, codenamed Amotekun, has arrested 52-year-old Ibrahim Musa, his two underaged sons and 49 cows for flouting the state government’s open grazing law. Musa and his twin six-year-old sons, Audi and Musa, were arrested for harassing and threatening a 70-year-old female farmer, […]

The Minister of defence Major General Bashir Salihi Magashi (retd) has dismissed allegations of violation of human rights levelled against the country by the international community on the account of the mode of operation of the nation’s fighting forces in the ongoing counter-terrorism operations in the North-East.

THE Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, yesterday, decried the worsening situation of insecurity across the country, saying the South West has lost more than N3 billion as payment to kidnappers, while over 200 lives have been lost in four years, as a result of the menace.