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The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has begun a 28-million-euro project, sponsored by the Netherlands, to accelerate the fight against child labour in Nigeria and four other African countries. This was announced by the Ambassador of Netherlands to Nigeria, Marion Kappeyne van de Coppello, on the sideline of a two-day workshop …

A cyclone barrelled into eastern India on Friday, bringing down trees and power lines and “extensively” damaging the tourist town of Puri, but there were no early reports of casualties with a million people evacuated before it made landfall. Tropical Cyclone Fani spent days building up power in the northern …

178 new members-elect on Thursday declares support for Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamilla, to emerge speaker of the 9th Assembly. His media aide, Olanrenwaju Smart, said the members drawn across party lines gathered for the proclamation at New Chelsea Hotel in Abuja. Hon. Onofiuk Luke, Speaker of …

Dozens of community leaders, landlords, and residents of the Agidingbi area of Lagos Thursday staged a peaceful protest to the Lagos State House of Assembly against a court ruling giving them seven days to vacate their properties. The protesters, which included youth, women, and elderly people, chanted songs in Yoruba …

A three-eyed snake dubbed “Monty Python’’ has been found in the outback town of Humpty Doo in Australia’s Northern Territory.   The peculiar carpet python, about 40 centimetres long, was found on the Arnhem Highway in late March, with a malformed skull and three functioning eyes, including an extra one …

President Muhammadu Buhari has saluted Nigerian journalists as they join their professional colleagues across the world to mark World Press Freedom Day. President Buhari, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, on Thursday, urged the journalists to use the day to appraise and recommit …

Musa Umar, the district head of Daura in Katsina state has just been kidnapped by gun men. Umar is an inlaw to President Muhammadu Buhari. NAN reports that police officers are on the trail of the criminals. THE CABLE

The acting Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the immediate deployment of the Kaduna State Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Abdulrahaman, to the Force Intelligence Bureau, Force headquarters, Abuja. This was sequel to the rising incidences of banditry and kidnapping along the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway and the failure of the Kaduna …

Two technology companies, from Nigeria and UK, have signed a £56 million agreement to provide card technology, which would allow commuters to travel with public transport without cash or a paper ticket. The UK Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, said this during the signing of the agreement between Nigeria’s Interswitch and …

The House of Representatives on Tuesday said the National Assembly would transmit the approved 2019 Budget of N8.92trn to President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday. Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriation, Rep. Mustapha Dawaki, made this known while briefing newsmen after plenary in Abuja. Dawaki explained that the increase in …