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The House of Representatives on Tuesday flagged off investigation into Nigeria’s worsening drug abuse crisis with a view to halt the growing menace threatening public health and national security. Speaking in Abuja, Chairman, Ad-hoc Committee on Drugs, Trafficking, Alcohol and Tobacco Abuse, Hon. Oluwatimehin Adelegbe, warned that drug abuse poses a grave threat to the

Barely over one week after the end of Prof Darlington Obaseki’s tenure as the Chief Medical Director of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, UBTH, the House of Representatives Committee on Health Institutions has disclosed plans to probe the financial expenditures of the institution. Recalls that Prof Darlington Obaseki, the immediate past Chief Medical Director

Administrators say investigations are ongoing into loans of more than £200,000 to directors of the collapsed firm Blenheim House Construction. The latest report by administrators at S&W Partners reveals two former directors of Surry-based Blenheim House received loans totalling £222,712 “to purchase shares in the company”. S&W said that despite discussions with the individuals concerned

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched a 10-month market study into the civil engineering sector’s role in designing and delivering railway and public road infrastructure. The inquiry will assess whether the sector is functioning effectively and how it can better support economic growth, with a focus on rail and road projects that accounted

23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports have been busy over the last two weeks filing court motions to convince various sports leagues to comply with previously issued subpoenas for the teams' ongoing lawsuit against NASCAR. Among these was a motion filed in the US District Court of Colorado on April 7th to compel Liberty Media

HS2 has launched an investigation into whistleblower claims that overinflated rates were charged for workers supplied to build the West Midlands section of the route. The allegations relate to two labour suppliers employed by the Balfour Beatty Vinci (BBV) joint venture on the London-to-Birmingham high-speed line. One of the suppliers, London-based Danny Sullivan Group, remains

Science & Nature On Easter Sunday (April 20), NASA's Lucy probe will zip past the asteroid Donaldjohanson, testing its science instruments on the...

Auditor-general Tsakani Maluleke’s office has confirmed receiving the uMkhonto weSizwe Party’s (MKP) request to probe budget speech spending. The budget speech, initially scheduled for February 21, was haphazardly postponed due to disagreements over a proposed two percentage point value-added tax increase from 15% to 17%. MKP MPs have argued that the abrupt postponement cost the