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Rwanda on Friday rolled out the East African Community (EAC) electronic passport in an effort to boost faster border clearance as well as part of a wider regional strategy to enhance integration. Rwanda now joins other EAC states—Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania—that have already issued the electronic passport to their citizens. …

The Office of the Vice-President and Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria disagreed over the implementation of the controversial Ruga settlement initiative. While MACBAN’s General Secretary, Baba Ngelzarma, claimed on Sunrise Daily, a programme on Channels Television, on Friday that Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo’s office was helping Fulani herdsmen to …

Despite the harsh criticism of the planned establishment of Ruga settlements across the country, the Federal Government is set to commence the pilot phase of the project in Taraba, Adamawa, Plateau, Kaduna and seven other states, investigations have confirmed. It was learnt in Abuja on Friday that the execution of …

The General Secretary of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, Baba Uthman Ngelzarma, says Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo’s office is helping the herdsmen to create Ruga settlements across the country. Ngelzerma boasted that when the programme has been successfully completed, Nigerians would fully enjoy the benefits of animal husbandry. …

A recent report of the slump in the price of crude oil to about US $60 from almost US $70 per barrel has really become worrisome for Nigeria’s implementation of the 2019 budget, despite some development in the Persian Gulf, which should not be a source of inspiration, after all. …

Nigeria’s power sector has gone through twists and turns over the years and the recurrent problems of the sector have become intractable, or so it seems. Governments come, read copiously from the book of lamentation on this and go. But the problems remain with the citizens who have been serially …

States operating the Contributory Pension Scheme refused to remit about N3.4bn pension contributions deducted from their workers monthly remunerations into their respective Retirement Savings Accounts with their Pension Fund Administrators. The acting Director-General, National Pension Commission, Aisha Dahir-Umar, disclosed this during the second quarter consultative forum for states in Lagos …

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Ministry of Finance to sell all recovered and liability-free assets in six months. Some politicians and former government officials had their assets seized in the course of the anti-graft war of the Buhari administration. Speaking Tuesday while briefing the House of Representatives Joint Committee …

Justice Ayokunle Faji of a Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday, issued a bench warrant for the arrest and production in court of CEO of Innosson Nigeria Ltd, Innocent Chukwuma and two others, over fraud allegations. The Nation Newspaper

An airline, Air Peace, on Saturday reportedly overshot the runway and skidded into the bush at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa in Rivers State. The incident, which was said to have happened about 4pm, caused panic among airport officials. It was gathered that no life was lost and none …