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The budget defence of the Senate Committee on Power and Rural Electrification Agency (PREA) reached a standstill on Wednesday as the Committee exposed the Minister of Power, Alhaji Mamma Saleh, as being biased in the discharge of his ministerial duties. The budget proposals of the Rural Electrification Agency were not satisfactory to the committee as…
The #ENDSars protest which has been the bulk of the story on the news has taken a new toll as the National Broadcast Commission (NBC) sanctioned major broadcast stations for violating broadcasting code during the protest. The stations include AIT, Channels TV and Arise TV. According to the commission, the stations contributed to the increase…
Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture has stated that there is an urgency to regulate social media in order to checkmate fake news. The Minister told the House Committee on Information, National Ethics, and Values at the defense of the 2021 proposed budget of his ministry that fake news and misinformation poses a…
The United States Election Project revealed on Tuesday that early votes in the 2020 U.S. presidential election hit 69.6 million. This surpasses half of the total 137 million ballots recorded in the 2016 presidential election. The figure was published in the ‘2020 General Election Early Vote Statistics’ website. Early voters who were interviewed disclosed that…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has completed the construction of Escravos-Lagos pipeline phase 2 (36’x342km). There will be the immediate transmission of gas to power stations in the country. Zakhlem Construction Nigeria Limited assigned the project to the NNPC.The construction company is one of the biggest construction pipeline with the potential to serve many…
Training of personnel for the new unit of the Nigeria Police designed to combat high criminal activities in the country will commence today in designated locations of Osun and Nasarawa States. The Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) unit is being assembled by the Police command following the disbandment of the notorious Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS)….
AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, Kwara State Governor has signed the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Bill into law. Kwara has left the 19 states widely criticized for not entrenching the key human rights law. Kwara was among the 19 states yet to domesticate the law, which addresses domestic violence and other socio-cultural and political issues such as genital…
American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP), Nigeria Chapter, has traced the annual flooding in the country to the rising waters from the main channels of River Niger and River Benue that cut across the six geopolitical zones. The Safety Professionals condemned the devastating effect of flooding in some parts of Nigeria. They stated that the…
The Federal Government has granted the release of N30 billion as part payment of the Earned Academic Allowances (EAA) to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). This was finalized at the meeting which was held on Friday between the Federal Government and ASUU. Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labor and Employment said ‘The Accountant…
Folarin Falana, popularly Hip Pop artiste known as Falz, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to restructure the governing council of the National Human Rights Commission. The plea was made due to the high rate of police brutality during the protests. There has been complaints of attacks by the protesters in Abuja and Lagos. Falz request…
