The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) says lack of legal framework is a major corruption risk factor in the country’s e-government platforms. The platforms include the Federal Government’s Treasury Single Account (TSA), the Government Integrated Financial Management Information System (GIFMIS) and the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS). This is […]
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has alerted Nigerians on the need to raise their guard against another outbreak of Lassa fever and Ebola. In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ilorin on Monday, Dr Tunde Olawepo, Chairman of the association in Kwara State, warned the country not to let down its […]
The Progressives Leaders Association (PILA), an organisation sponsoring an Igbo Language School in the U.S., says a similar school has been opened in South Africa. Chima Umealo, Coordinator of PILA in South Africa, said at a dinner in Johannesburg on Sunday that 16 children had started lesson in the school. He said the group’s aim […]
Providing mass employment, infrastructure development including roads, bridges, schools, health centres, hospitals, pipe borne water and decent housing, among others are not part of the mandate of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), the Amnesty Office has said. The Amnesty Office, in a statement captioned “The Presidential Amnesty Programme is not an omnibus Agency,” said it […]
About 13,000 Nigerians are currently seeking asylum in Germany. German Ambassador to Nigeria, Bernhard Schlagheck who made the disclosure said the reasons rangers from insecurity arising from Boko Haram insurgency to political prosecutions in Nigeria. Ambassador Schlagheck however hinted that his country was not convinced that there is political persecution in Nigeria at the moment. […]
A Nollywood actress name yet to be ascertained, was yesterday crushed to death while five persons were injured by a commercial vehicle along Onitsha-Awka Expressway by New Parts Market Nkpor, Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra state. It was gathered that the commercial bus with some passengers lost control and ram into the victims, […]
One armed robber has been killed in a shootout and another arrested following an attack on O.R. Tambo International Airport in South Africa. Reports say the incident occurred Saturday at a highway ramp after robbers allegedly fled from the airport’s Swissport warehouse in a seized cargo truck. The robbers had held up security guards in […]
Nigeria will pay a minimum of £1,000 for everyday the Presidential Jet is parked in London waiting for President Muhammadu Buhari, who has spent almost two months in his second sick leave in London, the Presidency said on Thursday. Special Senior Assistant to the President (Media & Publicity) Garba Shehu disclosed this in a statement […]
Nigeria’s Yuonov Frederick Agah has been reappointed as Deputy Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) for another four-year term. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Agah, who hails from Benue state, was first appointed as Deputy Director-General of WTO in 2013 for a four-year term. He will resume his second term at the […]
Detectives are on the trail of a yet to be identified middle-aged man for allegedly depositing a 10-year-old boy whom he abducted in exchange for three bags of rice worth N48,000. The suspect allegedly abducted the boy while he was on an errand for his mother at Prince bus stop, Isheri Osun area of Lagos. […]