All accounts of the Bayelsa Government have been frozen in the aftermath of the sacking of Gov. Timipre Sylva by the Supreme Court on Friday. An official source told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Yenagoa on Wednesday that Acting Gov. Nestor...
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Works, Sen. Ayogu Eze has called for the declaration of a state of emergency in the road sector. He added that ``if we continue funding our roads the way we are doing today, we will not get anywhere.’’ Eze ...
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) on Wednesday in Abuja said that a revised version of the Value Added Tax (VAT) would soon be presented to the National Assembly. Mrs Ifueko Omogui-Okauru, Chairman of FIRS, stated this at the ongoing inve...
A Lagos-based lawyer, Mr Festus Keyamo, has accused the Police of allegedly shielding the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Alhaji Abdullahi Dikko, from being prosecuted for alleged forgery. He also accused the Lagos State Directorate...
What would have made a woman so heartless as to mete out the kind of punishment that would lead to the death of her child? How stubborn or disobedient can a child be to warrant death as punishment? These were the questions on the lips of nurses and doc...
The trial of six policemen accused of killing five spare parts dealers and their female companion in Abuja in 2005 suffered another setback on Wednesday before an Abuja High court. The policemen standing trial for the killings are DCP Danjuma Ibrahim, ...
Alhaji Ibrahim Abdu, the Jigawa Commander of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said 261 suspects were arrested in 2011 with 110 kilogrammes of Indian hemp and other illicit drugs. Abdu disclosed this in an interview in Dutse on Wednesday. He...
The Chairman of Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Hon. Micah Jiba, has called for the cooperation of aggrieved Karu Market traders as the council makes efforts to complete the new modern market. The chairman who spoke through the council’s Sup...
Kubwa is one of the oldest satellite towns in the federal Capital Territory (FCT). One of the earliest federal government estates, Federal Housing Authority Estate is located in this sprawling satellite town. Located about 40 kilometres away from the c...
Noodles are generally easy and quick to prepare. These staple diets in many families are derived from maize, rice, flour among others. They are dried or precooked and are often sold with packets of flavoring including seasoning oil. D...
Life is like a journey with an unpredictable destination. The Spanish poet and playwright, Antonio Machado (1875 – 1939) aptly captured life’s unpredictability in his poem: “Oh Time, oh Still and Now, pregnant with things impending. Y...
The residents of Lakpyana Yusuf Road in Dokodza, Bida, Niger State might lose their houses and the land they have lived on for so many years if the gully erosion that threatens the area continues at its current rate. The erosion which...
Recently, Christians living in the North were threatened by terrorist attacks of Boko Haram. In a mark of solidarity, sons and daughters of Christians living in Southern Kaduna came together to pray for God’s protection and blessings. MIDAT JOSEP...
Doubtless that it changed the government and governed relationship, the echoes of the one-week strike over the hike in the pump price of fuel still reverberate across every sphere of the nation’s life. Things have changed and NICK UDENTA captures...
The Labour Party (LP) has threatened to drag the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to court if the commission decides to conduct elections in spite of the Supreme Court judgment which ordered that fresh elections must be conducted ...