Environment

The National Council of Women Societies has lent its voice to the call by the Army High Command for parents in Borno State to stop donating their daughters to Boko Haram for suicide missions. A statement signed by Hajiya Binta Ibrahim, the council’s Public Relations Officer, described the act as …

The Consumer Protection Council has dissociated itself from an insinuated N17m judgment against Coca-Cola by the Supreme Court of Nigeria. The Director-General of CPC, Mr Babatunde Irukera, said this in a statement by Mr Abiodun Obimuyiwa, the Head of Public Affairs of the council, on Wednesday in Abuja. The Supreme …

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, North West Zonal office, Kano, have arrested a Chinese man with N305,000 in N5 denomination. He was arrested at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, en-route Dubai. Addressing newsmen at the anti-graft North West zonal headquarters on Wednesday, the Zonal Head of …

Qatar, isolated by its neighbours in a diplomatic crisis, announced on Wednesday a visa-free entry programme for 80 nationalities to stimulate air transport and tourism. “The visa exemption scheme will make Qatar the most open country in the region,” tourism department official Hassan al-Ibrahim told a press conference in Doha. …

Chairman of the PDP ‎Convention Planning Committee and Governor of Delta State, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa has said the party will send a very strong message to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and indeed Nigerians on Saturday. ‎The party non-elective convention, slated for Saturday in Abuja is the first in the series …

  Ambode had on May 29, 2016, set up the Persons Living with Disabilities (PLWDs) Empowerment Fund with N500 million for their welfare. Ambode said that the presentation was a clear evidence of a promise kept by his administration to ensure an all-inclusive government in which no individual or group …

A new report by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has revealed how over N11 trillion meant to provide regular electricity supply was allegedly squandered under the governments of former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan. According to the report, “The total estimated financial loss to Nigeria …

The police in Lagos have arrested seven suspected ritualists following the discovery of an underground kidnappers’ den at Obadeyi in Ijaye area of the state. The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Fatai Owoseni, told newsmen at the scene on Tuesday evening that the dungeon was discovered by joint efforts …

Activities at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, appeared normal in spite of the two recorded deaths and over 100 people under surveillance for Lassa Fever. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondents who visited the hospital report that from the gate, people were seen entering the institution unperturbed. …

Obadeyi-Ijaiye end of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway was home to a mammoth crowd on Tuesday following the discovery of a suspected kidnappers’ den in the area. Clothes, slippers, bags, among other items, were reportedly found in an uncompleted building at the end of a tunnel in the area. The crowd laid …