THE National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has summoned the Director, Department of Development Control, and Federal Capital Territory Administration (ECTA) over a proposed mass demolition of houses located in a satellite town within Abuja. The...

THE menace of flooding in some major cities in the country has been blamed on Nigerians’ non-challant attitude to waste disposal. According to a Professor of Environmental Engineering and Science at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte,...

IT was a show of shame yesterday at the Gombe Jewels Hotel, Abuja, venue of a meeting of the Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC) when chairmen of some registered political parties in the country engaged themselves in a free-for-all over...

THE Federal Government has accused some State Universal Basic Education Boards (SUBEBs) of sabotaging its efforts to improve the quality of basic education across the country. The government has also observed that except over nine million children...

THE northern chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has criticised the Northern Governors’ Forum for allegedly taking some decisions on behalf of the people of the 19 states of the North. According to CAN, the governors, who...

DUE to its precarious financial position, which has been worsened by the loss of its status as an oil-producing state, Cross River State is considering focusing on agriculture. While receiving officials of the International Food and Agricultural...

THE Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and the Lagos State government have begun dialogue with a view to resolving their disagreement over the regulation of telecommunications masts and towers in the state. The commission at the weekend...

SOME parts of Taraba State have been thrown into darkness owing to the destruction of electricity facilities by vandals. As at the time of filing in this report, outage has persisted in Jalingo, the state capital, for over a week due to the...

ZAMFARA Governor Abdul’aziz Abubakar Yari and the state House of Assembly are on the warpath over an alleged plan by the government to sack 7,000 ghost workers from the civil service. The ghost workers were identified in a recent progress...

THE Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will only extend its cash-less scheme to six states in January next year, contrary to the planned nationwide extension of the initiative. The CBN, which listed the states to include Abuja, Anambra, Kano, Ogun,...