Edo State governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has asked his erstwhile trade union colleagues to have a rethink of their current opposition to the power sector reform and adopt a strategy that will benefit workers of PHCN and the nation at large. The go...
Several Abuja residents enjoy eating beef, but do not know the source, Michael Oche and Kehinde Ajobiewe, visited the Suleja abattoir which supplies meat to major parts of the city and write on its filthy state. A drive through the broad road th...
Based on the average prices for the month of December, 2011, the exchange rate and other indices used to determine the price of petrol by the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), Nigerians will have to pay as much as N140 per lit...
The House of Representatives Committee on Donor Agencies has begun an investigative session into allegations that government ministries, agencies and an undisclosed non-governmental organisations have diverted huge foreign donor funds meant to fight ma...
The dreaded Boko Haram sect yesterday sent a threat letter to Kano State Government, warning her of a planned attack over what it termed the indiscriminate arrests of its members under the pretext that they were thieves and armed robbers. This latest d...
Traders at the Abubakar Gummi Central Market, Kaduna, and those who trooped into the market for Christmas purchases were yesterday thrown into pandemonium as a 33,000 -litre tanker burst into flames while in the process of discharging its content at th...
President of the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU), Prof. Ukachukwu Awuzie said the ongoing strike is not aimed at frustrating students as speculated in some quarters. He said, rarther,...
On December 13, General Muhammadu Buhari, presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) for the 2011 poll and also chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees inaugurated a renewal committee meant to embark on a membership dri...
The Minister of Trade and Investment, Dr. Olusegun Aganga, has noted that job creation through local manufacturing of products was critical to the economic development of Nigeria. Aganga stated this when he received in audience investors from Slovenia ...
Following the repeated predictions by meteorologists and experts of torrential rainfall that pose to overrun the whole of Lagos State next year, the state government has allayed fears of Lagosians, saying necessary steps have been taken to avert flood ...
Governor Umaru Tanko Al-Makura of Nasarawa State, has appealed to Fulanis to be at peace with their Tiv counterparts and other citizens of the state, to give room for the state to develop. The governor, who made the appeal when Fulani leaders from the ...
The sacked Permanent Secretary, Bureau of Computer Services and Information Technology in Osun State, Engineer Abiodun Oladapo has denied the allegations against him that he misappropriated a sum of N2.5billion meant for the provision...
The Gubernatorial flag bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State, Hon. Seriake Dickson yesterday presented his running mate, Rear Admiral John Jonah, to the leadership and members of the party in the state, saying the choice of his ...
A 14-year-old, Yusuf Mohammed of Bindigari ward Damaturu in Yobe State has been sentenced on a three-count charge of criminal conspiracy, shop-breaking and attempt to commit an offence of theft; offences punishable under sections 97, 355, 95 of the pen...
The Senior Magistrate’s Court II, sitting in Damaturu, Yobe State capital, presided over by Abubakar Bukar Kagu, has sentenced a 24- year-old man, Kabiru Habu to two years in prison, without an option of fine for criminal use of force and t...