At last, the federal government has commenced the much awaited verification exercise of all pensioners under the Head of Service, in line with the Unified Pension scheme, to determine their accurate number and quantum of liabilities. Fielding qu...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday confirmed Justice Dahiru Musdapher as substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN).Musdapher, who has barely eight months to spend in office before attaining the mandatory retirement age of 70, would be sworn by pres...
The Managing Director, Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA), Engr. Gabriel Amuchi, has stated the agency’s resolve to reduce its reliance on federal government allocation.Amuchi made this known yesterday at a press briefing where he expressed ...
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has once again insisted that the last general elections held in Nigeria were credible at all levels.The president, who maintained this while briefing world leaders at the ongoing 66th session of the United Nations Gene...
Bashir Salihu is a legal practitioner and former chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in Yobe State. In this interview with UCHE UCHE in Damaturu, the Lawyer speaks on the Justice Salami saga, President Goodluck Jonathan’s proposal of s...
The acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje and the immediate past governor of Kwara State, Senator Bukola Saraki will on Saturday, in Ilorin, receive the defecting leaders and members of All Ni...
According to sources within the Nigerian Football Federation, the chief coach of the National U-20 team, the Flying Eagles, John Obuh, has started wooing the Nigeria Football Federation to allow him commence preparations for the 2013 edition of the Wor...
Former Kogi State first lady, Mrs. Aisha Eleojo Audu-Emeje, yesterday emerged as the Justice Party (JP) flag bearer in the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Kogi State. Mrs. Audu, who is the first woman to win a gubernatorial ticket of any party si...
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) have said they are still studying a new centralised television deal approved by CAF for the 2014 World Cup qualifiers.Nigeria’s income as well as those of South Africa and Egypt are expected to be hardest hit...
Ekiti State governor Dr. Kayode Fayemi has bemoaned the failure of the federal government to impact on the lives of Nigerians. He regretted that, 51 years after the country’s political independence from Britain, Nigeria has remained a vast &lsquo...
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan yesterday dared terrorists in Nigeria, saying that the continuous terrorist attacks happening in various parts of the country could not intimidate him or his administration. The president, in his address at the ongoing...
The Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA)is facing an internal crisis. Its chief executive officer, Arc. Sina Agboluaje, and the staff are now at daggers-drawn, and the matter appears beyond amicable resolution. Agboluaje ...
The arraignment of a former Lagos State governor Bola Tinubu by the federal government before the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) for alleged operation of foreign accounts while in office was stalled yesterday, sequel to the objection raised by Tinubu&r...
The Senate yesterday screened and confirmed Justice Dahiru Musdapher as the substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN). He had been acting in that capacity for a month now. Also, the Senate confirmed the nomination of Dairus Dickson as substantive mini...
Northern governors under the aegis of Northern Governors’ Forum (NGF) have said that they will work harmoniously to tackle the Boko Haram menace by addressing issues relating to unemployment, thuggery , poverty and ignorance that have helped fuel...