Chairman, Malali quarry workers union in Kaduna State, Kabiru Mohammed, has said the Sustainable Management of Mineral Resource Project (SMMRP) has made life easier for members of his union by providing them with a crusher and a generating set. Kabiru ...
President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the adjustment of the Consolidated Public Service Salary Structure (CONPSS) as agreed by government and organised labour. A circular issued yesterday in Abuja by the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commissi...
National President of Dimension Stone Operators in Nigeria, Kabiru Umar, has urged government to tidy up and ensure speedy approval to buy, store and carry out blasting activities in mining operations. Kabiru Mohammed in an exclusive interview with LEA...
The head of the green technology division, Simba Group, Mr. Ajeet Bats, has said that the Solar lantern, the solution to the biting scarcity of petroleum by-products and the power problem in the country, and a substitute for the expensive kerosene lant...
The face-off between the National Judicial Commission (NJC) and the President of the Court of Appeal (PCA), Justice Isa Salami, yesterday took a turn for the worse, as Justice Salami carried out his official responsibility. To firm up his position, the...
A Lagos-based group, The Common Man’s Movement of Nigeria has described as irresponsible the suspension of the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Salami by the National Judicial Council. The President of the group, Comrade Adeshina Adebayo...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday co-opted leading business mogul, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, and four others into the economic management team.The team which held its inaugural meeting at the Presidential Villa, has the following as the other new membe...
All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) has slammed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over deregistration of seven political parties in the country.According to a statement signed by the national chairman of the ANPP, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, sta...
The Borno State Police Command said it has arrested a man suspected to be supplying chemicals to the Islamist sect popularly known as the Boko Haram.The state’s commissioner of Police, Mr Simeon Midenda, made the announcement at a news conference...
The former Military President, Gen. Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida has been described as the biggest beneficiary of the loyalty of the late former Military Vice President, Admiral Augustus Aikhomu. Aikhomu, who served under IBB between 1986 and 1993, died ...
A Non Governmental Organisation in Ekiti State, the Ekiti Justice Group (EJG) has urged Governor Kayode Fayemi to be guided by the overriding interest of the state, not partisan politics in handling the ongoing Airport Project being executed in the Sta...
It is simply a battle of ex-directors-general of the beleaguered Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) as Dr. Julius Bala, a former D-G yesterday warned his predecessor, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, to desist from further smearing his reputation or face court ac...
The Ekiti State government has imposed a levy of N5 million registration fee on private universities operating in the state which is renewable with N750, 000 annually. Besides, intending owners of private polytechnics and colleges of education are to p...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday threatened to embark on strike over some state governors who have insisted that they cannot implement the National Minimum Wage in their states. NLC President Abdulwahed Omar, who briefed journalists after th...
The federal government yesterday. Asked Ukraine government to take it easy with Nigeria following the Kidnapping of its national, saying at “a higher level, they do also know that in any country such a thing can happen”. “ They know a...