The Federal Government says it will support states affected by flooding with N3 billion to mitigate the effect of the menace.
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Butchers and consumers of various kinds of livestock, especially cattle and goats have decried the persistent rise in the prices of the animals.
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) Anambra Branch, has called off the indefinite strike it embarked upon to protest the kidnap of Dr Stephen Ezeh, an Ihiala-based private practitioner.
The death toll from the recent flood in Jigawa State has risen to 33, the Minister of Defence, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar has said.
The Senate Deputy Chief Whip, Sen. Onyekachi Nwebonyi, has urged the Federal Government to investigate the delayed distribution of fertiliser to states by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Developme
Some residents of Kaduna, Kano, and Katsina States report that they are yet to receive the rice recently donated to the states by the Federal Government.
This week, Yobe State will become 33. On August 27, 1991, President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida sliced Yobe State out of the old Borno State, which was itself carved out of the North Eastern State that was hewed from the Northern Region. The IBB regime thought it better to situate its capital in Damaturu. The British chiselled this sleepy, hazy, whistle-stop settlement out of the Alagarno district as a colony in 1902 when they conquered the Bornu Empire. It was no more than a little big village. Yobe, then a largely agrarian state, has been lucky to have governors who, at their paces and vision, had…
The Association of Professional Women Engineers of Nigeria (APWEN) Lagos Chapter, on Saturday, unveiled the Lagos Home Gardening Initiative to promote food security in the state and across the nation.
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted thundery and rainy activities across the country from Sunday to Tuesday.
Some nutrition experts have urged the Federal Government to commit to the Child Nutrition Fund (CNF) to ensure access to the Multiple Micronutrient Supplementation (MMS) for pregnant women in the country.