No fewer than 200 persons were arrested and charged before mobile courts across Kwara state during Saturday’s environmental sanitation exercise for violating Kwara State environmental law. The spokesman of the state Ministry of Environment, Kamaldeen Aliagan in a statement in Ilorin on Sunday, said the Commissioner for Environment, Nafisat Musa Buge, She warned residents and commercial transporters against violating the environmental law of the state during the monthly sanitation exercise. The commissioner urged residents to...

Engr. Sani Yabagi, the National Chairman of Action Democratic Party (ADP) and immediate past National Chairman of Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) has condemned the blackouts in three regions of the country, saying that  efficient supply of energy is vital to economic growth. It will be recalled that three regions across the country, South-East, North-West and North-East regions have experienced blackouts in as a result of national grid collapse in the past three weeks. Yabagi in...

Disturbed by the lack of electricity in some parts of Northern Nigeria for some days, the Northern Senators Forum has asked the federal government to swiftly restore electricity supply in the affected states. Some parts of the North are experiencing blackout following a fault at the 330kV DC Transmission Line. The incident, which caused a blackout in the North-East, North-West and parts of the North-Central, affected the line that is supposed to be a backup...

The alleged plan by the Federal Government to legalize abortion in the country has been opposed by the Catholic Church in Nigeria. It was reported that the Health Promotion Department of the Federal Ministry of Health is reviewing sections of the Criminal Code to decriminalize abortion, aimed at expanding access to safe termination of pregnancies and reducing maternal deaths. The Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria (CSN), in a statement signed by its Secretary General, Very Rev....

The House of Representatives on Thursday called on the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to commence the gradual withdrawal of old naira notes and ensure the availability of the redesigned N200, N500, and N1,000 banknotes. The Green Chamber also directed the apex bank to instruct commercial banks to conduct transactions with customers using the new notes to facilitate the phasing out of the old ones. This resolution followed the adoption of a motion of urgent...

To ensure that families displaced by flood are not exposed to water-borne diseases, the Kogi State Governor, Ahmed Usman Ododo has begun the drilling of boreholes at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps. According to the state government, this will also help to ameliorate the hardship the displaced persons go through while in search of water. The Kogi State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Hon. Kingsley Fanwo, who stated this on Thursday, noted that the...