The Plateau State Independent Electoral Commission (PLASIEC) has fixed February 17, 2018 for local government elections in the state.

Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos on Wednesday inaugurated the state’s Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) and Forensic Centre to accelerate collection of evidence and improve its quality to quicken justice dispensation. It would recalled that’ last years, Gov. Ambode approved the construction of the first-ever high-powered Lagos State DNA Forensics Centre, in Nigeria. The centre is located at CMS on Lagos Island. The centre is the first government-owned in Nigeria.

The Kano State Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Shandong Ruyi Technology Group of China for the establishment of a $600 million Textile Industrial Park in the state. The planned multi-million dollar investment in Kano will be the biggest in Africa upon completion. Kano state Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje says the state has put in place facilities for textile clusters across its 44 local government areas and urged the group to incorporate them into the Textile Industrial Park.

The House of Representatives on Wednesday invited the Nigeria Customs Service and the Department of State Service (DSS) to brief it on the influx of small arms and light weapons into the country.

Gov. Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State, on Tuesday inaugurated the Open Government Partnership (OGP) Steering Committee for the full implementation of the initiative in the state.

The Nigerian government is targeting about 5.5 million pupils by the end of 2017. Figures released by the Office of the Vice President showed that about 2,918,842 schoolchildren from 19,881 schools in the 14 pilot states of the federation have so far benefitted from the school feeding programme.