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The Federal Government approved tax reliefs for tech startups to enable the implementation of strategies to encourage and support the development and growth of more Innovation-Driven Enterprises. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ali Pantami, said this in a statement Sunday by his technical assistant, Femi Adeluyi. Pantami …

The National Legal Adviser of the Accord Party, Maxwell Mgbudem, has called for urgent measures by the government to ensure that the killing of Miss Deborah Samuel, a 200-level Economics student of Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto State, over alleged blasphemy does not cause an escalation of jungle …

As the World marks this year’s World Malaria Day, the World Health Organisation, WHO, on Sunday urged Nigeria and other malaria endemic countries to work on drug and insecticide resistance, as well as focus on new strains of malaria parasite arising from the region, which are more difficult to detect, …

After serious deliberations that dragged into the early hours of Monday, the National Executive Council, NEC, of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has voted to embark on one-month warning strike to press home its demands from the government. A source at the meeting held in Lagos told Newsmen …

Over the decades threats of strikes by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and other sister unions are the bogeys that have continued to haunt our tertiary educational system. They started in the 1970s, and yet, no regime has found a lasting solution to them. The main cause of …

Food vendors serving government schools in Cross River State under the Federal Government’s School Feeding Programme (SFP) have lamented that they receive two loaves of bread, one live chicken, one crate of egg and 50 sachets of tombrown to feed 70 children in a term. They have also lamented that since …

The Federal Government has alerted the general public to heightened security activities preparatory to the events marking the country’s 61st Independence anniversary. The alert was contained in a statement issued in Abuja on Friday by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed. The Minister however urged residents of …

The Federal Government has stopped students in Senior Secondary School one and two from participating in external West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE; the National Examination Council, NECO; and National Business and Technical Examinations Board, NABTEB. The development was contained in a circular issued to principals of federal unity …

The fundamental rights suit filed by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, at the Abia State High Court has been adjourned to October 7 following the inability of the Federal Government to appear before the court today. It is being reported that there was …

The Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola on Thursday, launched the Federal Government’s Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) scheme in the State, which will see more than 15,000 beneficiaries across the State get N20, 000 each. This is part of efforts to mitigate the economic effects of the Coronovirus pandemic in the …