Nigeria to disengage 500,000 N-Power beneficiaries ‘soon’
About 500,000 persons engaged in Nigeria’s social investment programme N-Power will have to look elsewhere for means of livelihood as the government is set to...
Category : Issues
Nigeria Today: Passenger’s Diary
Even with the recent unrest in various parts of the country, heightened level of insecurity, armed robbery, kidnapping and other menaces ravaging the country, not...
1.1 million North-East children vulnerable to coronavirus –UNICEF
Olaleye Aluko, Abuja The United Nations Children’s Fund has warned that internally displaced Nigerian children are among the world’s most vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic....
Senate probes NDDC for spending N40bn in three months
The senate has set up a 7 member ad-hoc commitee to probe the “financial recklessness” of the Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Niger Delta Development...
82.9m Nigerians are poor – NBS
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says more than 82.9 million Nigerians are poor by national standards. The NBS made this known in its report...
Nigerian farmers lament increasing postharvest losses amidst lockdown
As a result of the COVID-19 lockdown and lack of access to markets, farmers are experiencing massive post-harvest losses of fruits, vegetables, fresh products, and...