By James Ogunnaike, Abeokuta The newly sworn-in local government Chairmen in Ogun State, have been charged to make revenue generation their priority, just as they had been advised to avoid overburden the people with unnecessary taxes and levies. The State Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Hon. Afolabi Afuape gave the charge at the […]

No government worker or member of the Nigerian Union of Teachers(NUT) earns below the national minimum wage of N30,000 in Kwara State, chairman Olu Adewara has clarified.

Following assessment work done in the mining sector, Global Rights Nigeria is set to launch a policy brief on ‘Climate Change and Mining Policy’, and the premiere of the hallmark Documentary of Global Rights’ 10 years of impact in Nigeria’s mining sector on August 5, 2021

By Victor Ahiuma-Young Contributors to the Contributory Pensions Scheme, CPS, following the Pension Reform Act, PRA, 2014 as amended, has hit 9.3 million. This came as the National Pensions Commission, PenCom, assured stakeholders of seamless delivery of services to them especially retirees and prospective retirees. Director-General of PenCom, Aisha Dahir-Umar, made the disclosures at a […]

The Liberian music scene is growing in leaps and bounds, as more and more home-grown artists are stepping onto the big stage to make the country proud. One of such artists is young Lourell Andymark George popularly known as Stunna. Stunna is a Liberian RNB, AfroPop ,Afrobeat artist born in Monrovia, Liberia. Stunna started recording […]

My husband just turned 60 and I am 57. We got married six years ago after his wife had been dead for two years. They’d been married for 25 years.

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Gombe State Office, on Wednesday said that no fewer than 67 persons died in 220 road crashes in the state between January and June 2021. The State Sector Commander, Mr Ishaku Ibrahim, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lafiyawo Community in Akko […]

A Gwagwalada Magistrates’ Court, on Wednesday sentenced a 32-year-old housewife, Justice Kayode to six months imprisonment for adultery. The court, however, granted the second accused bail in the sum of N200,000. The police charged Kayode, and a civil servant and her alleged partner, Iroghama Charles, 39, both of Chukukun village, Gwagwalada, Abuja, with three counts […]

By Emem Idio, Yenagoa The National Directorate of Employment, NDE, has commenced basic business training in Bayelsa State for the beneficiaries of the federal government Extended Special Public Works, ESPW, programme. It would be recalled that the programme was flagged off in the state on January 19, by the Minister of State Petroleum Resources, HMSPR, […]

A mother of 10, Mrs Tolu Osho, has lost her 48-year-old marriage for allegedly denying her husband sex. An Igando Customary Court in Lagos, on Wednesday, granted the request of her estranged husband, Mojidi, to dissolve the union. The court president, Mr Adeniyi Koledoye, said that since the petitioner insisted on divorce after several interventions, […]