•Governor Umaru Bago of Niger State Governor Mohammed Umaru Bago of Niger State has revealed that most of the victims affected by the May 29 flood disaster in Mokwa town, the headquarters of Mokwa Local Government Area, were non-indigenes, constituting over 50 percent of those impacted. He disclosed this today while receiving humanitarian supp...
•Flood No fewer than 259 people have been killed out of a total of 1,048,312 individuals affected by the recent flood disaster that ravaged 29 states across the country. Speaking on the current trend of flooding nationwide, the Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mrs. Zubaida Umar, disclosed during the National...
•Minister of Education, Prof Tahir Mamman The decision to invalidate degree certificates obtained from some universities in Togo and Benin Republic from 2017 till date has left over 22,000 Nigerian graduates of the institutions confused and with their fate hanging in the balance, it was gathered. A group, the Coalition of Stakeholders in Educa...
•Scene of the fire Several shops have been affected as fire ravaged a seven-storey building in Lagos. The incident happened early today on Sanni Adewale Street in Lagos Island Local Government Area of the state. Confirming the incident in a statement, the Director of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Margaret Adeseye, said firefighters ...
•Kirikiri Prison The Lagos State government has disclosed that 25 cases of severe gastroenteritis occurred at Kirikiri Medium Security Prison, confirmed to be caused by cholera. Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, while giving update of outbreak of cholera in the state yesterday, added that urgent medÂical and environmental intervenÂt...
•Gas flaring A school was forced to go on recess while the environment has been adversely affected by a gas flaring operation conducted by Shell, an international oil company, in the heart of a community in Bayelsa State. Residents of Gbarantoru Community, in Ekpetiama Kingdom of Yenagoa LGA, Bayelsa State, have expressed shock over the [&hell...

