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A black American billionaire, Mr. Robert Smith, has volunteered to sponsor the education of 24 girls from Chibok community, including the 21 recently rescued ones. Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, made this known to State House correspondents in Abuja on Tuesday. He said beneficiaries of the scheme include the first set …

The Federal Government will spend N400m on the purchase of vehicles for the nation’s former heads of government and their deputies in 2017. The figure formed part of the N9.882bn budgeted for the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation for the year. According to the details of the 2017 Appropriation Bill currently before the National Assembly …

The Lagos State government has again assured residents of the availability of LAKE Rice at designated outlets across the State. The Commissioner for Agriculture, Toyin Suarau, gave this assurance yesterday while reviewing sales reports of the product from retail outlets and centres. Suarau said the government was working assiduously to ensure availability of the product in outlets and centres experiencing …

Indications have emerged that the clamour for upward review of new national minimum wage by organized labour, may be long in coming, as there is no provision for it in the Federal Government budget proposal now before the National Assembly. Organised labour had since May 2016, sent a proposal for a N52, 000 monthly National Minimum Wage, NMW, to the …

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the November 26 governorship election in Ondo State, Mr. Eyitayo Jegede (SAN), has said that the party will get back to its feet very soon. Jegede, in a Christmas message issued in Akure on Sunday to felicitate with Christians, urged the people of the state to embrace peace, love and unity. He …

The General Superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church, Pastor William Kumuyi, on Sunday said that in 2017, God would grant President Muhammad Buhari the solution to the numerous challenges facing the country. Kumuyi gave the assurance while speaking with newsmen when he played host to the Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr Mudashiru Obasa, who led some members …

The last may not have been heard about the purported rejection of Alhaji Ibrahim Magu’s, nomination by President Muhammadu Buhari as the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. While some senators would want Nigerians to believe that the confirmation had been rejected by the upper chamber of the National Assembly others are crying foul. Chairman of the senate …

Nigerians in diaspora, under the group, The Nigerians In Diaspora Monitoring Group(NDMG), have expressed happiness with President Muhammadu Buhari over the defeat of the Islamist Boko Haram terrorist group. In a statement signed by its UK Co-ordinator, Engr. Adekaa Onyilo, the group also lauded the military for its gallantry in outing the terrorists. “The Nigerians In Diaspora Monitoring Group(NDMG) is …

A yet-to-be confirmed number of persons have been trapped after a building collapsed in Police College, Ikeja, Lagos State in the early hours of Sunday. An official of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, who spoke to our correspondent on condition of anonymity, said rescue operations were ongoing at the college. (Punch)

The Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali, will today, lead service chiefs to reopen roads hitherto closed by the Boko Haram insurgents in the Sambisa Forest area of Borno State. One of our correspondents learnt that the roads, which were earlier being manned and controlled by the insurgents ,affected no fewer than 15 villages. It was learnt that the Chief of …