Vice-President Namadi Sambo on Saturday said that the death of Sheikh Mudi Salga was a great loss to the country, in view of his enormous contribution to the propagation of Islam. Sambo said this in Kano on Saturday when he paid a condolence ...
As efforts to resolve the crisis rocking the All Progressive GrandAlliance (APGA} continue to meet brick walls, Ambassador Bianca, wifeof Ex-Biafran Warlord, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu has warned thatif the National Chairman of the party, Ch...
As Nigeria celebrated the Safe Motherhood Week, gaps were observed across all the hospitals in the Federal Capital Territory, where findings revealed that pregnant women still find it difficult to access ante natal services. Yet, ante natal care ...
In Ebonyi state, first wives demonstrate their anger against their husbands for taking second wives by setting the ‘intruders’ ablaze, and making sure they are burnt to death, writes ONYEKAOZULU OFOMA in Abakaliki. Women ...
Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Uyi Igbe, says the lawmakers are more interested in giving legislative backingto the executive in order to fast-track development rather than engage in acrimony with the governor. In this...
On Tuesday in Lagos, retired General Olusegun Obasanjo, former president and immediate past chairman, Board of Trustees of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) delivered a damning indictment of the national and state parliaments by alleging they a...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday made a solemn promise to media practitioners and members of the Nigerian Union of Journalists that he would stop at nothing to ensure the freedom of the press as enshrined in the country’s constitution was no...
The All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) has described the statement credited to the leader of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retired), on the likely consequences of flawed elections in 2015 as a call to make democracy wo...
The Sultan of Sokoto and President General of the Jama’atuNasril Islam (JNI), Muhammad Sa’adAbubakar III yesterday said lack of accommodation, welfare and understanding among the people were the main problems facing Nigeria today and said t...
The Imo State police command recorded a major breakthrough on Wednesday by rescuing 10 victims in a thick forest believed to be the hideout of kidnappers in Orogwe, Owerri West local government areas of the state. The state police commissioner, Mr Chri...
The 36 State governors, under the aegis of Governors Forum have said that they are in full support of the new electricity tariff regime and the on-going power reform programme of the federal government. The Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi who ...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor engaged in what it called ‘a contextual misinterpretation of relevant facts’ on the PDP National chairman, Dr.Bamanga...
Nigeria has contributed over 240,000 troops since it started sending soldiers, police and other personnel required by the United Nations to keep peace in the world. This revelation came from the 2010 UN report, which also classified Nigeria as the four...
One of the sons of the former Minister of Information, Chief Edwin Clark yesterday stated that he is not afraid of his father’s present political posture in the country. Sam Clark, the fourth son of Chief Clark spoke at the 85th Birthday of his f...
The Supreme Court yesterday confirmed Theodore Orji as the Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate for the April 2011 gubernatorial election in Abia State. The five man panel of justices led by Justice Afolabi Fabiyi unanimously dismissed an appeal ...