The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday stated that the ongoing fuel scarcity across Nigeria was a deliberate attempt by the government to forcefully implement the deregulation policy in the oil and gas sector. The labour movement, however, directe...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), North-West Zone, has suspended Alhaji Faruk Gusau, an ex-officio of the zone, over a paid publication against the Governor of Sokoto State, Aliyu Wamakko. Alhaji Gusua had signed a material published in nationa...
The Borno State government yesterday signed a N39 million contract for the upgrade and connection of 12 towns and villages in the southern part of the state to the national power grid. The contract involved the rehabilitation of the old 33KVA line from...
Former Governor of Anambra State, Dr. Chinwoke Mbadinuju, has demanded the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), gubernatorial ticket for 2014 as a way of assuaging a perceived injustice meted out against him in 2003 by the party. He vowed ...
Nasarawa State intending Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land of Israel have been challenged to see Nigeria as a better place to live in on earth. Governor Umaru Al-makura, who said this yesterday while bidding the pilgrims farewell, said that, &l...
The Rivers State wing of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), has said that media practitioners in the country owe the citizens a sacred duty to use the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act to resist all forms of dictatorship at the three tiers of governm...
Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke has commissioned a 128 Kilometre South-South Gas Pipeline in Calabar. The Minister said that the project would contribute in accelerating the economy of Cross River and Akwa Ibom states, the ...
Detectives at the Delta State Command of the Nigeria Police Asaba have arrested a prime suspect in the alleged murder of Chief Amenughanwon Uti Chinyem, the Eleme of Obianyima, near Abavo, Ika South Local Government Area of the State. He is Chief...
About 10,000 former members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who joined the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) shortly before the last general elections have formally declared for the ACN. Speaking on behalf of the detectors, hundreds of...
The apex body of pen pushers in the country, the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, has nominated the Ondo State governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko as the beneficiary of its 2011 Governor of the year award In a statement announcing the Governor ...
Katsina State government has concluded arrangements to kick-start a state-wide mass immunization against cerebral spinal meningitis, the state governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Shehu Shema, has said. Governor Shema who spoke through the Commissioner of Health, ...