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Nigeria’s agricultural sector seems to be taking a turn for the better with the various policies introduced by the current government, some of which were vigorously implemented in 2019. The government argues that the activities in the sector last year were channeled at improving the lives of average Nigerians. Rural Grazing Area (RUGA). As an immediate solution, the federal government ...

There was confusion in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital on Tuesday as a storey building belonging to an 80-year-old man went up in flames in Ijokodo community around 2:10pm. The entire top structure was torched with properties worth millions of naira damaged. The 82-year-old man, Chief Amoo-Onidundu, reportedly built the house in 1978. It was gathered that the fire incident ...

The Executive Director, Poly Products, Lagos, Mr. Pavan Gwalani on Thursday said Lagos state needs 5,000 mobile toilets to eliminate the menace of open defecation. Gwalani, in an interview in Lagos, said: “With a population of almost 20 million people, 5,000 mobile toilets should serve about 40 people daily.“ He, however, urged stricter sanctions which he said would greatly reduce ...

In its bid to increase food production and create employment opportunities for the teeming youths, the Ogun State Government has kicked off its Broiler Empowerment Program with the delivery of 54, 000 day-old chicks for 54 beneficiaries. The Special Adviser to Ogun State Governor on Agriculture, Dr. Adeola Odedina, who led a team from the Ministry of Agriculture, while taking ...

The FCT Administration received a total of 7,826 fresh applications for various plots of land in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja in 2019. The Director, Abuja Geographic Information Systems (AGIS), Dr. Isa Ibrahim Jalo, made the disclosure at a press conference in Abuja.  He gave a breakdown as: private residential-4,901; commercial-2,120; resettlement-431; Area Council-373; and diplomatic-1.  Dr. Jalo also said ...

The Federal Government has announced that the Ibadan-Kano rail project would be starting off by the first quarter of year 2020. The minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi, said this while speaking to journalists on the sidelines of the December inspection of the project. Amaechi, who commended the contractor, China Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC) for the just-completed 156 kilometre track from Lagos to ...

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says it has renovated 34 Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) in Bauchi State to ensure child survival and improve the healthcare infrastructure. Bahnu Pathak, the Chief, Bauchi Field Office, UNICEF, disclosed this on Thursday in Disina, Shira Local Government Area(LGA) of the state, during official handing-over of the Disina PHC to the state government. Reports ...

The Jigawa state government has revealed that a bidding process for the construction of 95 mosques across the state will soon be opened. Meanwhile, the state has more than 800,000 out of school children, and according to a survey by the Education Sector Support Programme in Nigeria (ESSPIN), those out-of-school children are between the age of 3 and 18. It ...

The hearing of the lawsuit by a staff of the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation Ltd. (CCECC), Godspower Ntaka, against the company held at the National Industrial Court on Wednesday. At the resumed hearing, Mr. Ntaka’s lawyer, Cornelius Nwapi, informed the court that the defendant (CCECC) has reached out to them and has requested that the case be settled out ...

The Lagos State Government says it will tackle the menace of unauthorised real estate practitioners across the state. The Special Adviser (SA) to the Governor on Housing, Mrs. Toke Benson-Awoyinka, said this in a statement in Lagos on Monday. Benson-Awoyinka said that the state government had planned a stakeholders forum for real estate practitioners, aimed at tackling the menace. She ...