Group alerts on ‘suspicious’ amendment of tobacco bill
Akinbode Oluwafemi, deputy director, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), alerted media executives in Abuja on Thursday, May 4, 2017 on alleged attempts...
Senate slashes number of TV stations covering plenaries
The Senate, on Thursday, restricted coverage of its proceedings to six television stations, making all the cameramen to boycott coverage of the plenary altogether. The...
Press Freedom: AMDF Laments ill Treatment on Journalists
By Alex Uangbaoje, Kaduna The Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF), has reiterates its commitment to continue to promote press freedom and freedom of expression in...
5 Men Who Had Sex with Married Woman in her Husband’s bed get 15 years imprisonment
A Minna Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday sentenced five men to three -year imprisonment each, after they admitted committing adultery. They were, however, given an option...
Edo IGR Has Increased by Over 500% – Obaseki
Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki has revealed that his administration’s zero tolerance to waste in the civil service has boosted the Internally Generated Revenue...
Aso Rock And The Hovering Vultures
By Sam Kargbo Lexicographers have their ways with terminologies. What, for instance, is the relationship between a wake of vultures and a wake in fluid dynamics?...
Pandemonium as Dead Man Grabs Brother’s Hands in Mortuary
There was panic today at the mortuary of Plateau Specialist Hospital in Jos, when the hand of the corpse of a man being prepared for...
May Day: Workers humiliate Saraki, Dogara, Labour Minister in Abuja
The President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, Speaker, House of Reps, Yakubu Dogara, Minister of Employment, Labour and Productivity, Chris Ngige and other government functionaries,...
UNICEF Partners Kebbi Assembly on Health, Education and Other Interventions for Children
By Alex Uangbaoje United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the Kebbi State House of Assembly has agreed to collaborate in improving the health care services...
Gombe ready to implement N56, 000 minimum wage
Gov. Ibrahim Dankwambo of Gombe State, has assured the state civil servants that his government would immediately implement the proposed N56, 000 national minimum wage,...