In a demonstration of presidential authority, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, a year on the saddle as elected president and shortly after returning from a much criticized trip to Brazil, recently fired the National Security Adviser (NSA), retired General Owoeye...
NNAMDI MBAWIKE reports on the havoc caused by a midnight windstorm that has left tales of woes in Nru community of Enugu State. For residents of Nru Community in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State, Monday 12th June, 2012 will continue to haunt...
Recent allegations of corrupt dealings by two key umpires saddled with the task of recovering stolen public funds signal dangerous era for the war on graft. CHUKA ODITTAH, in this analysis examines the boomerang effect of corruption and whether Hon. La...
Governor of Niger state, Dr Babangida Aliyu has described the integration of almajiri system of education in the north as timely, even as he urged stakeholders to incorporate skills acquisition in the project. The governor who was the...
Facts emerged yesterday following the reported attack on the convoy of the Edo State governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, while on a campaign visit to Usen, Ovia North East local government area of the state. In a statement issued by the commissioner of...
After 50 years of of constant struggle to ensure that it sees the light of day, the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) is due for onward transmissionn to the National Assembly in two weeks time by the presidency. “This bill has been 50 years in the ma...
Actress Katie Holmes has filed for divorce from her superstar husband Tom Cruise, ending a six-year marriage that produced one daughter and captivated celebrity watchers worldwide. Holmes filed papers in New York City on Thursday, citing irreconcilable...
Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) and governor of Rivers State, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have condemned the gruesome murder of the chairman of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANP...
Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, and chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Professor Chidi Odinkalu, have challenged the federal government on the implementation of the environmental assessment report of the United Nations Env...
Following the resolution of the National Assembly that Dana Air must pay at least 30 per cent of the $100, 000 insurance compensation to the families of victims of the ill-fated flight 9J-992 on June 3, the airline seems to be at the cross roads. ...
Judgement in the suit instituted by winner of the January 9, 2011 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial primary election, Alhaji Jibrin Isah Echocho, challenging the swearing-in of Idris Wada as governor, has been postponed.. A new date is yet t...
Determined to curtail the effects of torrential rainfall that has continued to wreak havoc in the state, the Lagos state Government has alerted of more rainfall, just as it has dedicated the June Edition of the Statewide Monthly Environmental San...
The Emir of Potiskum, Alhaji Umar Bubaram, yesterday commended the newly appointed National Security Adviser (NSA) Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) for his timely initiative of touring the crisis-torn areas of Borno and Yobe states. The tour is aimed at him hol...
Five years after the foundation stone for the first monorail project in Cross River State was laid, the multi-million project is yet to take off, raising fears that the administration might have changed its mind on the scheme. The ground breaking for t...
It was the turn of the Nigeria Union of Journalist (NUJ) to taste the bitter pill of demolition yesterday as officials of the Development Control Department of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) allegedly acting on the directive of the...