•Akinwunmi Adesina The President, African Development Bank Group, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, has lamented the living condition of Nigerians amidst current economic quagmire bedeviling the country. Adesina in a statement signed yesterday by his Special Adviser on Industrialisation, Prof. Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, lamented that Nigerians paid one of th...
•Rescued school children Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has called on the federal government to clarify why none of the terrorists who abducted the schoolchildren in Kaduna was apprehended, especially if the government claims that no ransom was paid for the release of the 137 pupils. The Kadu...
•House of Reps Members of the House of Representatives today tasked the federal government on the need to accede to clarion call by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) by providing living wage for workers across the country. This is as the lawmakers warned that, “unless very immediate and pragmatic steps are taken to improve the […]
•Falana ActivÂist-lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has asked the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos to comÂpel the federal government, the 36 states of the federation and Abuja to provide free and compulsory education up to junior secondary school level. Falana and his co-plaintiff/apÂplicant, Hauwa Mustapha, filed the suit marked FHC/L/CS/142/2024...
•Nigerian students National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has appealed to the Tinubu-led federal government to fulfill its promise to provide shuttle buses for use by students to commute to their schools. The student body also called for the provision of palliatives for students, as the high cost of living has made things difficult f...
•School children Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Dr Betta Edu, to release details of how the sum of N535.8 million was expended on feeding of schoolchildren during COVID-19 lockdown. Justice Nkeonye Maha, in a judgment, directed the minister and t...