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Twenty eight people have lost their lives in a boat mishap in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger state. The Director-General of the State Emergency Management Agency, Alhaji Ahmed Inga, confirmed this in a statement on Sunday in Minna. He said the occupants of the board were 100 passengers who coming from Zumba from Tija…

Chairman of THISDAY/Arise Media Group, Prince Nduka Obaigbena, has advocated for the enactment of laws that will ensure that Google, Facebook and other social media platforms pay for intellectual property and news items produced by the Nigerian media. In a Keynote Address at the Lateef Jakande 2nd Annual Memorial Lecture on Tuesday at Radisson Blu…

The federal government has said  that over 22,700 Nigerians obtained fake degree certificates from Benin Republic and Togo. The minister of education, Tahir Mamman, disclosed this at a press conference on Friday in Abuja marking one year in office. The federal government had in January inaugurated a committee to probe private universities established in the last 15…

By Patience Dombin, Jos Two people have been killed on Tuesday by gunmen in an attack on the newly elected federal lawmaker, Musa Agah, representing Jos North/Bassa federal constituency of Plateau state. The gunmen suspected to be fulani herdsmen, were said to have ambushed Agah’s convoy at about 8pm along Twin Hill Miango in Bassa…

Governor of Kaduna state, Senator Uba Sani, has said that the fragmented nature of legal reforms in Nigeria is fuelling inefficiencies and undermining public trust in the justice system Speaking at the Body of Attorneys-General (BOAG) conference in Kaduna on Wednesday, Sani called for collaboration between federal and state governments to carry out a comprehensive…