A former Governor of Abia, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu, has urged individuals and corporate bodies to compliment government efforts in providing infrastructural facilities to enhance socio-economic development. Kalu made the call on Thursday whi...
The World Bank-funded community and social development project (CSDP) has doled out N30million to 13 communities in Katsina State for the provision of infrastructure. General Manager of Katsina State Agency for Community and Social Develop...
The South East Zonal Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency(NEMA), Dr Abdullahi Bandele Onimode has expressed displeasure, over what he described as the appalling condition of youths in the country, regretting that some of them ...
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has informed President Goodluck Jonathan that the Christian community is fast losing confidence in government’s ability to protect the rights to religious liberties and life of Christians. T...
Senator Robert Ajayi Borrofice, who represents Ondo North Senatorial District under the platform of Labour Party(LP), yesterday defected to the Action Congress of Nigeria(ACN). During the event at his ward at Oka Akoko, Borrofice said that he co...
The Lagos State House of Assembly has directed the state Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development to halt the proposed demolition of houses in Atinporomeh and Araromi in Olorunda Local Council Development Area. Speaker of the House, Adeyemi ...
Nasrul Lahi L Fatih Society( NAFSAT) has condemned the Sunday bombing at St Theresa’s Catholic Church, Maddala, near Suleja that claimed many lives, saying the development is a dastardly act against the country and humanity. The National Pr...
Indications have emerged that Lagos State Government may ban the use of commercial motorcycles, also known as Okada, in the ever busy metropolis in the New Year. Submitting its report to the state governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, at the Ikeja Lag...
Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi has condemned the terror attacks on some churches that led to the death of some people and destruction of property on Christmas Day. Fayemi described the act as worrisome and called for more vigilance on the part of t...
After a long and anxious wait, the Supreme Court yesterday dismissed an appeal filed by the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and affirmed the victory of President Goodluck Jonathan and his vice Namadi Sambo in the April 16,2011 presidential electi...
Rampaging lending rates appear to have slowed following the closure of most businesses in the country. Pressure was also taken off liquidity following the closure of the foreign exchange (forex) official market last week. All the tenured inter-bank rat...
The National Association of Seadogs (NAS) yesterday described the members of the Boko Haram Islamic sect and their faceless sponsors as ‘cowards.’ The NAS made this declaration in a statement issued yesterday in Yenagoa by its leader...
A member of the National Assembly Joint Committee on Constitution Review, Senator Magnus Ngei Abe has said that about 40 requests for the creation of new states in the country are currently before the National Assembly. Abe, who is the senator represen...
The second batch of 17 beneficiaries of the Niger Delta amnesty programme have arrived Poland on a two-year training programme. Polish Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Niesioywski Przemyslaw, announced this yesterday in an interview with the News Agency...
The lingering violence in Jos, the Plateau State capital, has shoot up the rents of houses in the Southern part of the city, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. NAN correspondents, who went round some parts of the city, report that rents had skyr...