Kwara Government To Employ 1,600 Persons with Disabilities

One thousand, six hundred Persons with Disability (PWD) in Kwara State will benefit from the Federal Government’s three-month special public works programme. State Committee Chairman Oluwasegun Oyewo, after an interactive meeting with leaders of the Joint National Association of Persons with Disability (JNAPD), said the number represents 10 per cent of the 16,000 beneficiaries in…

Lawmaker representing Borno South in the National Assembly, Ali Ndume has alleged that most of the insurgents recently integrated into the community had gone back to their old ways. Ndume said the programme was unacceptable, calling on the government to stop forthwith. Speaking in a British Broadcasting Corporation Hausa programme monitored in Kaduna on Wednesday,…

A woman, who does not want her name mentioned, on Wednesday accused a police officer identified as Peter Ebah, attached to Saakpenwaa Police Division in the Tai Local Government Area of Rivers State of detaining and raping her in a guest house after she was arrested for not wearing a nose mask. The victim, a…

The Ondo State Deputy Governor, Mr Agboola Ajayi, has concluded plans to dump the Peoples Democratic Party to join the Zenith Labour Party to contest the forthcoming governorship election. Ajayi, who lost the PDP primary to Eyitayo Jegede last Wednesday, reportedly held meetings with leaders of the ZLP, as well as the National Leader of…

A former Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, Ikeja branch, Mr Adesina Ogunlana, has vowed to challenge the verdict of the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja, which affirmed his disqualification from the NBA presidential race. Nigerian lawyers, under the aegis of the NBA, are set to elect a new set of national leaders in…