Canada has passed a landmark law that legalises the recreational use of marijuana nationwide. The Cannabis Act passed its final hurdle on Tuesday in a 52-29 vote in the Senate. The bill controls and regulates how the drug can be grown, distributed,…
Trump administration officials on Tuesday said the U.S. has pulled out of the United Nations Human Rights Council, saying that the international body is “not worthy of its name.” U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley announced the withdrawal alongside Secretary of…
Senator Bola Tinubu, the National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), has described Ekiti as a state where change is necessary. Tinubu speaking at the launch of the mega rally of APC’s governorship candidate, Mr Kayode Fayemi, in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday…
Nigeria is sitting on between 20 and 34 million barrels of unsold crude, Nigerian media report, quoting a Platts survey of tenders for July loadings. This goes counter to upbeat forecasts about global demand that were in no small part responsible for the…
Less than four months after his controversial reinstatement, the Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, Usman Yusuf, is again in trouble over a N25 billion investment scam. The newly inaugurated Governing Council of the agency has accused Mr Yusuf of…
The desperate sobbing of 10 Central American children, separated from their parents one day last week by immigration authorities at the border, makes for excruciating listening. Many of them sound like they’re crying so hard, they can barely breathe. They scream “Mami”…
A train station was built in just nine hours by 1,500 workers in China. Organised with military precision, the project which reportedly took place over the weekend, was completed in the southern Fujian Province. Seven trains and 23 diggers were used in…
As a measure to curtail the smuggling of foreign rice and other toxic materials into Nigeria, the Federal Government has said that it will, in a few days’ time, shut down the land border between Nigeria and a neighbouring country. Minister of…
There is confusion regarding the actual employers of the 300 street sweepers’ supervisors that were recently sacked in Lagos State, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.Environmental Utility firm, Visionscape Sanitation Solutions Ltd (VSS) told NAN on Sunday in Lagos that the…
The new pension scheme has recorded another feat, as about 231,000 retirees were able to withdraw N532 billion from the N8 trillion pension assets, LEADERSHIP findings have revealed. The amount withdrawn by the retirees, according to findings, is outside the N8 trillion…
There has been nothing in recent memory like the build up to Nigeria’s first match at the on-going 2018 FIFA World Cup tournament in Russia. Football is Nigeria’s greatest unifier: when it is football, our compatriots drop all ethnic, religious and ideological…
Nigeria’s debt stock and service bill will receive a notch up as the fourth straight budget deficit plan of about N1.95 trillion in the 2018 fiscal appropriation awaits President Muhammadu Buhari’s assent.The appropriation bill of N9.2 trillion will be signed into law…
No fewer than 20 candidates have been returned unopposed as members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC). There will be election into 42 positions by delegates to the party’s National Convention in Abuja on Saturday. A…