Month: July 2025

The federal government has elevated flood prevention to a national security priority with the unveiling of a new Anticipatory Action Framework on Floods to move disaster response from reactive to early, coordinated response. The new framework, which includes scientific and traditional data-gathering methods, triggers for early action, and a consolidated budget for flood response, aims […]

The Cross River State Government has disbursed the sum of ₦250 million self enhancement entrepreneurial grant to 500 retirees from the civil service in the state. The grant, ₦500,000 per beneficiary, aims to support retirees in starting sustainable business ventures to complement their monthly pensions. During presentation of cheques to the beneficiaries, Governor Bassey Otu […]

President Bola Tinubu has felicitated the Oniru of Iru Kingdom, Oba Abdulwasiu Omogbolahan Lawal, Abisogun II, on his 55th birthday holding on July 24, 2025. The President, in a statement by his spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, joins family, friends and well-wishers in celebrating the traditional ruler, who he noted to have devoted his reign to developing […]

The 21-year-old fraud trial of alleged fraudster, Fred Ajudua, was again stalled on Wednesday due to the defendant’s absence before the Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja, Lagos. Ajudua, who was first arraigned before the court in 2004, for allegedly obtaining $1.046 million from a German Zaid Abu Zalaf in 1993, was reportedly absent […]

Troops of Operation Hadin Kai Joint Taskforce North-East have killed several terrorists, including senior Quiad Commander Ibn Khalid and a cameraman, in a fierce encounter in Bitta, Gwoza local government area of Borno State. The troops also successfully foiled an attempt by Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists to infiltrate Mungonu in Monguno local government area in the […]

The Kwara State Government has disclosed that efforts were being intensified towards eradicating open defecation across the state. Commissioner for Water Resources in the state, Hon. Usman Lade stated this on Wednesday in Ilorin, the state capital. Lade emphasised this during a meeting with the delegation from the National Council on Sanitation and Task Group […]