The Federal Universities Pensioners Association (FUPA) has called for the decentralisation of pension payments by putting in place boards that would oversee the affairs of pension matters. National President Dr. Ayuba Audu Kura and Secretary, Mr. Jonat...
Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has enjoined the Nigerian Air Force to assist other security agencies in the state to combat crime and protect lives and properties. Dr. Uduaghan who made the call when the Chief of Air Staff, Air-Marsh...
Angered by the unprofessional behaviour of the staff of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) in the country, electricity consumers have asked the federal government to go ahead and privatise the power generating company for efficiency and regula...
The residents of Rigasa community in Kaduna metropolis have denied allegations that they are harbouring members of the Boko Haram sect. Rigasa community had in recent times become a hot-bed of terrorist acts as many people, especially officers of the N...
Osun State Muslim Community has cautioned that it would vehemently resist attempts by the opposition party to destabilize the state. The community, apparently reacting to the allegation in security report written by the Department of State Security Ser...
The Delta State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), has nabbed six suspects for being in possession of over 13,325 litres of illegal petroleum products. Briefing newsmen yesterday, State Commandant of NSCDC, Mr. Amos Andeki...
Against the backdrop of widespread and unfounded allegations that there is tension in the State of Osun, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Honourable Aminu Tambuwal, on Saturday the opposite was what he found in the state. Tambuwal described...
A fatal accident at Gako Village along Nassarawa Eggon-Akwanga road, yesterday, led to the death of a middle-aged man just as six persons sustained various degrees of injuries. It was gathered that the accident occurred around 3:30 pm when a blue pick-...
Authorities of the Bayelsa State police command yesterday identified the faces behind the N6billion fraud in the wage bill of the State Civil Service with the arrest of a top management staff member of the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) ...
Special adviser to the president on Niger Delta Matters, Hon. Kingsley Kuku has said that the Presidential Amnesty office has neither the powers, nor the competencies or wherewithal to stop any person who willfully decides to commit c...
In fulfillment of the pledge of the Niger state government to give relief to families of the victims of the Christmas day bomb blast at St. Theresa Catholic Church Madalla, Suleja, the Government has given out additional N36 million to the victims of t...
Hundreds of commercial motorcycle riders popularly known as ‘Achaba’ took to the streets in Dutse Jigawa state in protest against the new law that directed them to be registered and wear reflector jackets. The aggrieved Achabamen who ...
Former head of state and presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in the 2011 general elections, General Muhammadu Buhari, has said that Nigeria may experience a revolution in the years ahead unless there is social justice to...
Following the recommendations made by the presidential committee on the rationalisation and restructuring of federal government ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) in order to prune them down by as much 40 per cent, there is apprehension now th...
Former military head of state and the presidential flag-bearer of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) General Muhammadu Buhari has been described by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as a a non-democrat who has never hidden his disdain for elect...