Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson has served notice that he will take far-reaching and sometimes painful steps to reposition the state, which he says is in a very bad economic shape. By SONI DANIEL. What is your agenda for Bayelsa Stat...
United States presidential hopeful Rick Santorum yesterday suspended his presidential campaign. With this development the race is now between Mitt Romney, the US Republican candidate, and incumbent President Barack Obama to face each ...
As various political interpretations are being given the recent visit of former president and the immediate past chairman, Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, the Edo State chapter of the party...
In a rare show of human milk of kindness, a father who lost one of his children and the other critically injured in the Easter Sunday morning suicide bomb attack in Kaduna has declared that he has forgiven the attacker who killed his children. Alhaji M...
The Ekiti State government has concluded arrangement to provide jobs for 1,500 youths under its Youth Commercial Agriculture Development Programme (YCAD). The move is aimed at reducing unemployment in the state and ensuring that agriculture contributes...
Osun State governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola has awarded road construction contracts worth N17.5 billion to Hunge International Limited for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of six selected roads across the state. According to the governor, the c...
Eight more people have been confirmed dead as hospitals in Kaduna metropolis battle to save lives of victims of Sunday bomb explosion, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Five of the victims on admission at St. Gerard Hospital were confirmed dead...
The Bauchi State chapter of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), has warned its suspended chairman, Alhaji Shehu Barau Ningi, to stop parading himself as chairman of the party. The care taker chairman of the party, Aliyu S. Abubakar, ...
The Governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Anayo Okorocha has banned the open display and transportation of meat in the state. He handed down the directive after an unscheduled inspection of meat vans in Owerri. Governor Okorocha said that the health of ...
Irked by the recent bombing of innocent Nigerians in Kaduna and Yobe States during the Easter celebrations, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Chief Mike Ahamba has attributed the persistent attacks by the Boko Haram sect to a lack of commitment on th...
The Northern States Governors’ Forum (NSGF) has lamented the tragedies that occurred during the Easter celebrations in three States of the region that claimed 36 lives in Kaduna and 22 in Makurdi. The Governors expressed their regret at the suici...
Lagos State Government yesterday lamented Federal Government’s non- refund of the sum of N59 billion it expended on repairs of federal roads in the state. The Lagos State Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, who disclose...
A three – month old baby and the parents have been reportedly kidnapped by armed men in Effurun, Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State. Reports indicate that the victims were abducted on Monday while leaving their home located around Oru Sta...
The management of Olokola Free Trade Zone (OKFTZ) Enterprise has said the investment would attract N30 billion dollars (N4.73 trillion) in the next three years. Mr. Luk Haelterman, Managing Director, OKFTZ, who disclosed this to newsmen in Lagos, said ...
Transactions on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange yesterday re-opened on a downward slope after the two-day public holidays to commemorate Easter celebration, as investors leveraged on the upward movement of stocks last week to take profit. At t...