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Nigeria’s ‎Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said the Federal Government’s social intervention programme was not a welfare scheme that gives handouts to the poor but the largest single dedicated provision for social investment in the country.  He said this in his address at the launch of the Strategy Framework/Source Book …

What a sad day for Nigeria!  One of Nigeria’s most iconic sports personalities, former Super Eagles captain and former coach of the team, Stephen Keshi, has died.   According to his family, he died in the early hours of today Wednesday June 8th of Cardiac arrest in Benin, Edo state. …

Yoruba actor, and movie producer, Prince Jide Kosoko, has lost one of his wives, Henrietta Kosoko. Henrietta who was also an actress, was said to have died at the Sacred Heart Catholic Hospital, Lantoro, Abeokuta on Monday morning, after complications which arose after an auto crash she had while travelling …

Two ladies have reportedly drowned at the popular Elegushi beach,Lagos after being carried away by heavy tide at the beach with no safety measures in place. The two ladies,were said to be graduates of Covenant University and were at a friends birthday party on the beach before the incident. According …

‎Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh, yesterday June 2nd, released details of the 2011 National Agricultural Sample Survey, which shows an estimated number of livestock in the country. At a news conference in Abuja, Ogbeh said the 2011 census on Nigeria’s livestock showed that the country had an …

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Mr. Tor Uja as the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission. According to a statement by the Assistant Director (Press) in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Mohammed Nakorji, on Tuesday, the appointment takes …

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Mr Ahmed Ja’afaru as the new Controller-General of the Nigeria Prisons Service (NPS). This was contained in a statement signed by Mr Bassey Akpanyung, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, which was made available on Tuesday in Abuja. Until his appointment, Ja’afaru was …

A trader, Mr. Kenneth Ekeanyanwu, has died barely two weeks after he paid N10m as ransom to secure his release from kidnappers in Calabar, Cross River State. Ekeanyanwu, who owned Daybreak Bakery along Chamley Street in Calabar, was kidnapped by gunmen from his factory on May 6 and was said …

The long-awaited Nigeria oil and gas as well as the solid minerals sectors 2013 audit reports by the Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI, was officially unveiled in Abuja on Monday. The Minister of Solid Minerals and Chairman, NEITI Board, Kayode Fayemi, who unveiled the report, said the document contained …

The population of labour force in Nigeria has increased to 78.4million in the first quarter of 2016 from 76.9 million in the last quarter of 2015 representing an increase in the labour force by 1.99 per cent. The finding was contained in a report titled Unemployment/under-employment watch Q1 2016, released …