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  From Joseph Amedu, Lokoja National Directorate of Employment in collaboration with the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Women Leader, Hajia  Salamatu Baiwa Umar-Eluma have given empowerment opportunity to 1,300 unemployed persons at  Anyigba in the eastern senatorial district of Kogi state.

  Hope of passing  the N30,000 minimum wage by the Senate and the House of Representatives, suffered setback yesterday  with postponement of plenary resumption tomorrow. Similarly, consideration for the N8.83trillion 2019 budget presented to the joint session of the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari two months ago, will also wait …

  Aspirant of Kogi State University Students’ Union Government (SUG), Comrade Muhammad Hadi Idris, has been honoured as the “Most Supportive Student Leader of the Year”

Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said that not less than 1.8 million candidates would be registered for its 2019 UTME by the end of the registration exercise scheduled for February 21. The agency also says over 1.6 million candidates have registered for the examination. The board’s Head, Media …

  As the peak period of snakebite approaches, Nigeria is hit with the paucity of Anti-Snake Venom (ASV), according to Nandul Durfa, Managing Director, Echitab Study Ltd Guarantee.

Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) yesterday condemned the killing of 66 people in Kajuru LGA of Kaduna state and Boko Haram suicide attack in a mosque in Maiduguri, Borno state.

  Law enforcement agents were at the receiving end of the sudden postponement of the February 16 Presidential and National Assembly elections, according to security experts. The experts told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in separate interviews in Lagos that security personnel deployed to various places outside their base …

The Democrat Union of Africa (DUA), an international election observer group has tasked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to regain public confidence and trust of Nigerians, following the postponement of the Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections.

  By Martin Paul, Abuja The re-appointed Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) Professor Sulieman Bogoro, said he has returned with a renewed vigour to relentlessly serve the Fund and the country at large.

  President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday assured the visiting Commonwealth Secretary General, Patricia Scotland of a free and fair poll in the country. “People have more confidence in a government they have elected in free and fair polls, than one that wangles its way into office through artifice and subterfuge, Muhammadu …