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Over 60 landlords in Abakaliki alone have been prosecuted for refusal to install toilet facilities in their houses, Premium Times reports. The Commissioner for Environment, Ogodo Nome, disclosed this in Abakaliki, the state capital. Also, over 138 persons have been arrested and prosecuted by the Ebonyi State Government for defecating in open places. Mr. Nome attributed the spread of most ...

Natives of the Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, have asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to immediately arrest the former Minister of FCT, Bala Mohammed, and top officials of the Abuja Geographic Information System, AGIS, and Federal Capital Development Authority, FCDA, over the Senate’s revelations that they illegally allocated land to their cronies in green areas within Maitama district extension ...

News Agency of Nigeria reports that no fewer than 1,500 women gave birth in 28 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in Borno in 2015, the State Primary Health Care Management Board said on Sunday in Maiduguri. The Executive Secretary of the Board, Sule Mene, told NAN that the deliveries were recorded between January 2015 and January 2016. The women are ...

The Borno Government says it will offer nursery and primary school scholarships to 23,000 orphans taking refuge in Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in the state. Ahmed Satomi, the Chairman, State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, disclosed this on Sunday in Maiduguri in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria. Mr. Satomi said the gesture was aimed at catering for ...

Members of the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers have asked the Lagos State Government to create the office of a valuer-general in the state to help make real estate transactions easier. The Chairman, Lagos branch of NIESV, Mr. Offiong Ukpong, who led other members on a courtesy visit to the office of the Permanent Secretary, Lands Bureau, said ...

The governor of Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, yesterday, appealed to the federal government to fulfill its commitment to the MKO Abiola International Airport, by making available its counterpart funds for the project. This is even as the minister for Transportation, Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, promised that having seen the level of work at the Osun Airport, he would brief ...

An Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti has set aside the revocation letters by the Ekiti State Housing Corporation to home owners at Irewolede Estate in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital. A ruling by Justice Bamidele Omotoso on Tuesday in a motion of notice filed by Rafiu O. Balogun on behalf of Irewolede home owners on October 2, last year, ...

The Chief Executive Officer of Millard Fuller Foundation (MFF), Mr. Sam Odia has appealed to the federal government to embrace the provision of affordable housing to Nigerians as part of its national priority programmes as enshrined in the constitution and United Nations Charter on Human Right. MFF is a faith-based organization which promotes collaborative and innovative partnerships aimed at providing ...

The office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Izzi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, was yesterday razed down by fire. Premium Times reports that the fire was caused by bush burning in the area, which later spread to the nearby INEC office. Witnesses said the fire was beyond control as it occurred at a distant location, far ...

Further hearing in a suit filed by Bianca Ojukwu, widow of the late Ikemba of Nnewi, Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu, against Ojukwu Transport Limited (OTL) and seven others was stalled on Tuesday. At the resumed hearing of the suit before a Lagos High Court, Bianca’s lawyer, Nick Omeje, prayed the court for an adjournment to enable him amend the claimant’s originating ...