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The Presidential Panel on SARS Reform, which began its public hearing in Lagos on Tuesday, November 13, ended its sitting on Saturday after listening to 36 cases.

The Food and Agriculture Organisation Representative in Nigeria, Suffyan Koroma, disclosed this while inaugurating distribution of planting materials for dry season farming at a farm centre, in Maiduguri.

Olubunmi Lawal, the National President, National Association of Paediatric Nurses on Saturday said Nigeria ranked third with about 800,000 preterm births annually.

The outgoing governor of Osun, Rauf Aregbesola, has said that he did not earn salaries throughout the eight years of his administration.

Madami said this on Saturday in Omu-Aran, the headquarters of Irepodun Local Government area of the state while speaking with newsmen.

A NAN correspondent who monitored the election in Omu-Aran, Oko, Aran-Orin, Ilofa, Odo-Owa, Osi, communities in Irepodun, Oke-Ero and Ekiti Local Government Areas of the constituency said the election was peaceful and orderly.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the election kicked off at exactly 8:00am under tight security across the three local government areas.

The body stated this through its National President, Dr. Samson Ayokunle, during a visit to Buhari on Friday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja

Justice Mohammed Aikawa of a Federal High Court, Lagos, on Friday dismissed a contempt application filed by a former Minister of State for Finance, Nenadi Usman, against Minister of Information Lai Mohammed over inclusion of her name in the…

A US judge has ordered the White House to restore the press credentials of CNN reporter, Jim Acosta, rejecting the Trump administration’s revocation of his pass to the building, according to the broadcaster.

President Muhammadu Buhari has confirmed the appointment and re-appointment of some heads of parastatals.

Uche who died at the age of 83 years, was sworn in as a Chief Magistrate in 1985 in the old Imo and later elevated to a judge.

Osinbajo stated this at the Closing Ceremony of the 50th Anniversary Celebrations and Annual Conference of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management on Friday in Abuja.

Squeff made the call when she visited the Executive Secretary, Catholic Caritas Foundation of Nigeria, Rev. Fr Evaristus Bassey, on Friday, in Abuja. 

Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, representing Abia South in the Senate on Friday, called on the Federal Government to institutionalise peace among the tribes and federating units of the country.

The Chairman of the State Emergency Management Agency, Alhaji Sani Dododo, who was at the scene, told NAN that the man of the family, was not at home when the incident happened.

Reuters correspondent, Huseyin Aldemir, reported that people attended the symbolic funeral prayer for Khashoggi at the courtyard of Fatih Mosque in Istanbul on November 16.

Irene Kokumo, the Permanent Secretary, Bureau of Local Government Pensions on Friday, said that the state government had paid N4.7 billion to local government pensioners between January and August.

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of five Chief Executive officers and two Executive Directors of some Federal Agencies.

Williams Aloh, the Vice Chairman of the committee, said the rationale for the visit was to basically recommend prisoners serving their jail terms in the prison for amnesty.