Bayelsa State Governor, Timipre Sylva has requested the Supreme Court to declare him the lawful standard bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the forthcoming governorship election in the State. The Governor made this appeal, yester...
All Children Charity International Foundation (ACCIF) with support from the TY Danjuma Foundation has commenced an eight-month vocational training programme in skills acquisition for 40 most vulnerable Persons Living with Disabilities (PLWD) in Kaduna....
Stakeholders in Nigeria’s space programme have raised an alarm over a bill before the National Assembly, seeking the duplication of the functions of an existing government agency, National Space Research and Development Agency (NASDRA). The propo...
After the meeting between Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Government yesterday there are indications that the strike action embarked by ASUU for almost two months might not be coming to an end as anticipated by Nigeria...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission yesterday arraigned four persons – Saturday Ovie, (aka David Makos, Olu Shola, Dr. Segun Obasanjo), Udugba Benson, Boyo Oritsetimiyn Bobby and Ovisco-Link Nigeria Limited before a Federal High Court si...
Amnesty International (AI) has accused the Federal government of not doing enough to tackle the worsening Boko Haram terrorist activities ravaging the northern part of the country. In its reaction to the continuing terrorist attacks in the city of Kano...
The African Union (AU) has said that the continent is ill-equipped to successfully combat organised criminal activities and terrorism that have besieged the continent. This was disclosed by the AU Chairperson Special Representative For Coun...
Alhaji Umaru Dembo, former minister of state for petroleum resources under the military regime of late General Sani Abacha yesterday told the House of Representatives ad-hoc committee on the investigation of the Subsidy that claims by gover...
Hunting rats, like any king of hunting, is not an easy task but some youth near Zariyawa village are making sure there are enough rats to go round. PEMBI STEPHEN-DAVID writes. Usman Aziz was pulling weeds in his backyard in Zariyawa, a village in Sulej...
Greatness is an attribute that has been in retreat in our contemporary society but it is a quality that is needed if any society must make progress. For Igwe Kenneth Orizu (III), he has displayed all the attributes of greatness by his depth of characte...
It was a protest few believed would succeed in Abuja given the city’s plastic lifestyle and the dominance of civil servants, who wouldn’t want to get on the wrong side of their masters. However, as NICK UDENTA captured, Abuja residents troo...
BEST ONCHE in Makurdi writes on the Benue State appropriation bill for the year, 2012. As the year 2012 begins, Benue State’s budget for the year comes into focus. Even if the entire budget of N105.57 billion does not trouble the mind, the ...
The deployment of soldiers to Lagos State after the fuel subsidy protest has continued to generate controversy because of the alleged hide and seek game between Governor Babatunde Fashola and the federal government. The state government has said that i...
During his inauguration on February 24, 2009, the governor of Ondo State, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, promised a massive infrastructural development, decisive intervention in health, education and agricultural sectors of the economy. He was also quick to add t...
For over two decades, Dr. Tunji Braithwaite has continued to do what he loves most—playing politics. Because of his hot ideological standpoint, he floated the defunct National Advanced Party (NAP) and used it for his failed presidential ambition ...