The Benue State Government has received 19 victims of child trafficking repatriated from Lagos, following the intervention of a Non-Governmental Organisation, Break The Silence Initiative Nigeria, BSiN. The victims made up of seven boys from Ushongo and twelve from Vandeikya Local Government Areas of the State were among many other unidentified Benue teenagers trafficked to […]

A World Health Organization-led team of experts investigating the origins of Covid-19 visited Huanan market on Sunday, the wholesale seafood centre in the central Chinese city of Wuhan where the new coronavirus was initially detected. The team of experts arrived at Huanan on Sunday afternoon amid a heavy security presence, with additional barricades set up […]

The renewed foreign rice smuggling into the Country is threatening the N3.4 trillion investments in rice processing sub-sector of the economy, the Director General of the Rice Processors Association of Nigeria (RIPAN) Mr Andy Ekwelem has said. Mr Ekwelem, who disclosed this at a news conference held in Abuja weekend, warned that if not checked, […]

The Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, has faulted Nigeria’s rating in the Transparency International Corruption Perception Index (TI-CPI), saying it does not truly reflect the great strides by the country in its fight against corruption. He made this known in a statement  while assuring Nigerians that the country’s anti-corruption agenda, which has placed great emphasis […]