ABUJA — Mr. Apera Iorwa,  National Coordinator, National Social Safety-Nets Coordinating Office (NASSCO) says the Federal Government pays  N10 billion to one million beneficiaries every two months from the National Cash Transfer. Iorwa said this at the National Social Safety-Nets Programme (NASSP) Third-Party Project scorecard dissemination meeting on Monday, in Abuja. NASSCO is a Federal Government agency with the mandate to establish the building blocks and delivery of targeted transfers and livelihood supports to extreme...

ABUJA — A reward of N100 million awaits anyone that will produce the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, for the continuation of his trial for alleged treason. A coalition of 75 Northern groups under the aegis of the Northern Consensus Movement on Thursday announced the reward while briefing reporters in Abuja. Speaking on behalf of the Coalition, Dr. Awwal Aliyu, urged the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and...

Armed gunmen on Sunday night killed 12 persons in Kuru village of Jos south Local Council of Plateau State and left five others seriously injured. Chairman of Jos South Local Government, Hon Gideon Dandereng who confirmed the attack to Journalists in Jos, said the incident took place about 10:30pm. Dandereng, who condemned the unwarranted attack on peace-loving and hardworking citizens, called for calm and appealed to security operatives to go after the perpetrators. Plateau Police...

Following the sacking of cabinet members, SSG and Chief of Staff by Governor of Bauchi State, Sen Bala Mohammed of Bauchi state last week, a new Chief of Staff (CoS), Government House, Bauchi has appointed. The immediate past Commissioner for Budget and Economic Planning, Dr Aminu Hassan Gamawa is now the new Chief of Staff (CoS), Government House, Bauchi, whose appointment came to many as a surprise. In a statement by Mukhtar Gidado issued in...