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The Majority Leader in the Anambra State House of Assembly, Nnamdi Okafor, has been reportedly dead. Before his death, Okafor, popularly called Akajiugo Awka, represented the Awka South Constituency 1 in the state Assembly. Details of his death were still sketchy, but unconfirmed reports…

Governor of Anambra State, Professor Charles Soludo, has inaugurated a nine-member Committee for the State-Local Government Joint Account. The Governor inaugurated the committee shortly after the State Executive Council meeting, at the Government House, Awka, on Monday. Speaking shortly after performing the inauguration, Governor…

The Lagos State Government has ordered a probe of the collapsed structure that killed two persons, including a minor, around Lady Lark, in the Bariga area of the state. It was gathered that the victims, Ayo and Tosin, alongside Ayo’s 32 year-old mother,…

Federal government has called on the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to reconsider the plights of Nigerian students who have stayed at home for six months and call off the strike. The minister of state for education, Hon Goodluck Nanah Opiah,…

Hoodlums have allegedly killed a military man identified as Major Churchill Orji at Azia, in Ihiala Local Council of Anambra State. It was gathered that the soldier died during an operation in notorious Azia axis, in Ihiala. A schoolmate of the deceased, Leonard…

There was panic on Sunday night as another building collapsed on Adeleye Street, Lady Lark, Bariga area of Lagos State. Two children died while three adults sustained varying degrees of injuries. The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency confirmed the development, adding that rescue is…

The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors has shifted its decision on the ultimatum it issued to the Federal Government by two weeks, The PUNCH reports. The association said it shifted its decision to give room for intervention by the Ministry of Health and…

Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has come under strong condemnation from two civil society groups over its decision to keep students at home with its demand for the payment of six salaries when the teachers were out of class. The minister of…

A notorious bandit kingpin Bello Turji has embraced the peace initiative of the Zamfara State Government as part of efforts to end banditry in the north-western state. Deputy Governor of Zamfara State, Senator Hassan Nasiha, disclosed this during a conference on security in…