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General overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye prays for the restoration of balance in Nigeria amid the rising insecurity in the nation. This is coming following the kidnapping and bloodshed taking over the major cities in some part of the country. In a post via the micro-blogging...

Lagos- Former governor of Ekiti state, Ayodele Fayose has bemoaned the hypocritical nature of politicians in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who pretend as if they are enemies in the day and meet secretly at night. Speaking in an interview with Daily Independent,...

The Chandler Good Government Index, released for the first time, places Nigeria as the third-worst governed country in the world. The report noted that the ability to handle corruption properly is the strongest indicator of good governance. Thus the CGGI ranked Nigeria 102 out of 104 countries with a score of...

Lagos State Government has rolled out a $20 million Coronavirus (COVID-19) Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus (Lagos CARES) Programme to support livelihood for poor and vulnerable households and to expand food security services in the State. At the State House, Alausa, on Wednesday, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu launched the social intervention...

The trio of Lagos, Rivers, and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have topped the list of states with the highest amount of Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) in 2020. This is according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) in its report titled ‘Internally Generated Revenue At State Level (Q4 And...

Plus-size Nigerian actress, Eniola Badmus has taken to her Instagram page to pen down an emotional note after she bagged a multi-million ambassadorial with the Lagos State Waste Management Agency (LAWNA). Her ambassadorial deal with Lagos State Waste Management Agency (LAWNA) follows after she was mocked about two months over...

The federal government in partnership with the African Development Bank (AFDB) and other stakeholders has concluded plans to commence a Special-Agro Industrial Processing Zones (SAPZ) Programme aimed at concentrating agro-processing activities in demarcated areas to boost productivity and integrate production, processing and marketing of selected commodities. Under the programme, the...

Vice President Osinbajo has decried the uneven distribution of vaccine across countries while calling on world leaders to embrace the principle of fairness in addressing the challenges in health, the economy and other issues. He expressed concern that the current trends in global distribution may lead to vaccine nationalism, which...