The Lagos State Government has announced its plans to ban the circulation of single-use plastics and sachet water starting January 2025. The state Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, confirmed the upcoming ban during a stakeholders’ workshop on implementing the ban on Styrofoam and single-use plastics (SUPs) for packaging on Thursday, October 3. Wahab said the ...

Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya of Gombe State has set up a high-level negotiation team to engage with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU) and the National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) all of Gombe State University (GSU). A statement by the Secretary to the State ...

Last month, a lower court issued a sentence against Zammel, a businessman and the head of the liberal Azimoun party, on charges of falsifying electoral documents. A ...

Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State led a strong delegation to the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC) office in Port Harcourt in the wee hours of Friday following the alleged attempt to break into the facility to cart away materials meant for Saturday’s local government election. Policemen allegedly deployed from neighboring Abia State were said to have stormed the ...

Kidnappers have demanded N30 million ransom payment for two women abducted in Igbaja, Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State. Tontrends reported that gunmen abducted three women in the early hours of Sunday, September 29, 2024, but one of them escaped. The kidnappers also k!lled a vigilante commander, the Jagun of Igbaja land, Chief Lukman Balogun, who led his team to the forest in the ...

A bill for an Act to establish Nigeria Surrogacy Regulatory Commission has passed second reading in the House of Representatives. The bill, which sought monitoring and supervision of surrogacy arrangements and to provide for the registration and regulation of surrogacy, was sponsored by Rep. Olamijuwonlo Alao-Akala (APC-Oyo) at plenary on Thursday. Surrogacy is a process in which a woman carries ...