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Sub-Saharan African countries are embracing the digital economy to boost competitiveness, a new report by Agility, a global supply chain company, has found. Titled “Agility Emerging Markets Logistics Index,” the report said leading African economies that have struggled to improve their infrastructure, business conditions, and overall competitiveness are generally performing better against other emerging markets in areas that measure their …

The Federal Government on Wednesday said it has initiated the process to investigate the supply of adulterated petrol to country, which has reportedly damaged many car engines of motorists. The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, disclosed this to State House correspondents at the end of the virtual Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting, presided over by President Muhammadu …

The House of Representatives on Wednesday said a state of emergency on ritual killings in the country should be declared by the Federal Government. The lawmakers also called for a campaign against the menace, saying the effort of parents, schools, religious leaders and the media is needed. This is following a motion sponsored by Deputy Minority Leader of the House, …

The plea-bargain talks between Dibu Ojerinde, the immediate-past registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), and the prosecution over his ongoing N5.2billion fraud trial have collapsed. The prosecutor, Ebenezer Shogunle, announced the breakdown of the negotiations at the resumed hearing of the case at the Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday. Mr Ojerinde, through his lead defence counsel, Ibrahim …

The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has said that the Federal Executive Council, FEC, approved the granting of citizenship to 286 foreign nationals out of the 600 who applied. He disclosed this to State House correspondents at the end of the virtual Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa, …

A Bill for an Act seeking to sanction public officers from seeking medical help abroad with public funds has passed the second reading in the House of Representatives. The House also placed N500 million fine and seven years imprisonment for any public official who violated the Act.Rep Sergius Ogun (PDP-Edo) who sponsored the Bill, while leading the debate on the …

…Diri tasks IOCs on scholarships for host communities Seven years after he left office, former President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, revealed that he embarked on the Almajiri schools programme in the North while he was in office to infuse Western education curriculum into the Islamic education to make the pupils employable and check incessant crisis and insecurity. Jonathan stated this, yesterday, …

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has said its members in universities across the country will embark on another strike soon if the Federal Government fails to implement the Memorandum of Action it signed with the union last year. The Chairman of ASUU in the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Dr Biodun Olaniran, and  Secretary, Dr Toyin Abegunrin, who …

The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) said on Monday that the law will run its course in the trial of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu who is being prosecuted at the Federal High Court in over terrorism charges. Mr Malami, who appeared on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ Monday evening, however, did not foreclose a political …

Over the decades threats of strikes by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and other sister unions are the bogeys that have continued to haunt our tertiary educational system. They started in the 1970s, and yet, no regime has found a lasting solution to them. The main cause of work stoppages is the Memorandum of Understanding, MOU, reached between …