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By Fatima Muraina The Network of Reproductive Health Journalists of Nigeria (NRHJN) has called for the immediate domestication of the Violence Against Persons Prohibition Act 2018 in all the states that are yet to key into giving women and girls sense of social justice and Security from violent and abusive tendencies. The Network also expressed dissatisfaction at the Global Gag Rule...

Nigerian senate president, Bukola Saraki on Wednesday says a report into the request by Nigeria’s president for the confirmation of new members of the central bank’s interest rate committee will be submitted to the senate next week.  Lawmakers in Nigeria’s Senate said details of the nominees had been formally referred to the Committee on Banking. The committee will submit its...

Nigeria’s total national debt grew to 21.7 trillion naira ($70.92 billion) at the end of December 2017, the director-general of Nigeria’s Debt Management Office told a news briefing on Wednesday.  It was 17.36 trillion naira at the end of 2016.  Nigeria’s first Eurobond will be repaid when it matures in July, said the head of the DMO, Patience Oniha. The national...

Annual inflation in Nigeria stood at 14.33 percent in February, slowing for the 13th month in a row and driven by a decline in the pace of food price increases, the statistics office said on Wednesday. The food price index showed inflation at 17.59 percent in February, compared with 18.92 percent in January. Core inflation was 15.13 percent last...

Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has inaugurated the new governing Councils of the four tertiary institutions in Ondo state with a charge to help drive funding for academic excellence and global competitiveness. The four institutions are the Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba Akoko, AAUA, Ondo state University of Science and Technology, Okitipupa, OSUSTECH, University of Medical Sciences, UNIMED Ondo and the Rufus Giwa...

File: A former militant undergoes screening at an amnesty screening programme. Credit: VOA  Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari  has sacked the coordinator of the amnesty programme for former militants, Paul Boroh amid allegations of graft, The Precision has learnt.  Boroh is being replaced by Charles Quaker Dokubo, currently director of research and studies at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, a think...

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Lagos State Management’s attention has been drawn to news making the rounds on the train accident that led to corps member, Odili Nneka Deborah’s (LA/17B/1169) death on 8th March, 2018. The State Co-ordinator of NYSC Lagos State, Prince Mohammed Momoh and management therefore wish to correct the news in the public domain which stated...

Just yesterday he was in high spirits, throwing banters with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja, the Nigerian capital. But this afternoon he suddenly found himself out of job. That is the story of United States Secretary of State, Plaid Rex Tillerson, who was on Tuesday afternoon sacked by President Donald Trump and promptly replaced. He was...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday morning arrived the airport at Makurdi, the Benue State capital on a condolence visit to the state. The former President is in Benue, in solidarity with the governor and people of the state over the incessant killings and attacks by suspected herdsmen. He was received at the airport by the state Governor Samuel Ortom and other...

Governor of Ondo State, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, has approved the appointment of members of the state's local government service commission.  A statement signed by his chief press secretary, Segun Ajiboye and obtained by The Precision, said Mr Femi Idris will serve as chairman of the commission while he would be assisted by four members including a representative of the Nigerian...