The Niger State government is to deploy one million computers and tablets to all public schools in the state, even as 1,000 female students will be sponsored to study medical courses every year. The governor, Mohammed Umaru Bago, disclosed this at the traditional and religious leaders conference on the significance of
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The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday granted bail to the embattled former governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, in the sum of N500 million with two sureties in the like sum.Trial judge Justice Emeka Nwite, who granted the bail application, held that the sureties must be owners
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The governors of the states of the federation had endorsed the creation of state police following the submission of their reports to the National Economic Council, NEC.The governor of Kaduna, Uba Sani, said this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the 147th NEC meeting chaired by Vice
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Nigerian activist and publisher, Omoyele Sowore, has raised concerns on an alleged conspiracy among influential elites aimed at leaving the beleaguered human rights lawyer, Dele Farotimi, incarcerated due to his defamation case involving Afe Babalola, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria.Sowore made this assertion in a statement shared via his X
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The Attorney-General of Lagos State and the Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Lawal Pedro (SAN), says the Human Organ and Tissue Transplantation Bill has been signed into law to prohibit illegal organ harvesting.Pedro disclosed this on Thursday at the Ministry of Justice in Alausa, Ikeja, while briefing newsmen on the significance
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Activist and lawyer, Deji Adeyanju has told the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, that all the lands in FCT he grabbed will be recovered.Adeyanju claims Wike is too small to stop landowners who lost their properties from reclaiming them.He said on social media, “All the land the
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The Federal High Court in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, on Monday granted N50 million in bail to human rights lawyer Dele Farotimi after the police filed charges against him over allegations of cybercrime.Justice Babs O. Kuewumi, presiding over the court on Monday, December 9, 2024, ruled that Farotimi be released on
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The management of Kwara State University Teaching Hospital (KWASUTH), Ilorin, is considering mass burial for unclaimed dead bodies.It was learnt that the KWASUTH morgue has been filled to full capacity due to unclaimed bodies.The head of the Corporate Affairs Unit of the KWASUTH, Kamaldeen Aliagan, confirmed that the hospital's
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The Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) and the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) have formed an alliance to enhance the participation of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in public procurement processes.The partnership was unveiled during a courtesy visit by NSITF’s managing director, Oluwaseun Faleye, to the BPP’s new director-general,
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Amnesty International has called on the Nigerian authorities to bring to justice those responsible for atrocities committed against victims and survivors of the Boko Haram insurgency.The perpetrators of the atrocities, according to Amnesty International, are both insurgents and some military personnel who have been accused of human rights abuses against
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