On Thursday, July 12, 2012, the entire country was thrown into another moment of mourning, following a fuel tanker fire disaster that sent scores of people to their early graves in Ula-Okogbe community in Ahoada-East Local Government Area of Rivers Sta...
Recently, over 54,000 Batch ‘B’ corps members bowed out from the scheme after their compulsory one year service to their fatherland. But with the rising unemployment in Nigeria, there are fears that such overwhelming population may remain u...
The Federal Capital Territory Minister, Sen. Bala Mohammed, in contending with the daily chaos that arise from traffic jams on the streets of Abuja, introduced the park and pay regime,which came into effect recently. JAMES UWEM looks at the opera...
Mutual cooperation between the executive arm of government and the legislature is essential if the governed must enjoy the dividends of democracy. In this interview with MIKE UBANI, the Speaker Imo state House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Chukw...
The scarcity of petroleum products has crippled economic and social activities in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. The scarcity of the products particularly petrol, is biting harder in the State. Residents of the State woke up yesterday to disco...
Following the spate of criticism that greeted the recent announcement of Dame Patience Jonathan, among the list of 19 newly appointed Permanent Secretaries in Bayelsa State, the state government has defended its action by saying the appointment was mad...
Incumbent governor and candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), in yesterday’s governorship election in Edo state, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has warned that there will be trouble if the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) di...
Speaker of the House of Representatives Aminu Tambuwal has condemned the Friday attack on a mosque in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. The action was callous and unacceptable, he said. He urged any aggrieved persons or groups to embrace dialogue rat...
The residents of Nyanya in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, in the past two weeks have been persistently rattled and terrorised by serial robbery attacks which have forced some of them to flee their homes at nights. A senior special adviser to a s...
Tragedy struck yesterday in Wurukum, a suburb of Makurdi, the Benue State capital, when it was alleged that a 15-year-old boy was killed by heavy rain that wrecked havoc in the Food Basket state, just as no fewer than 1,000 houses witnessed flooding. T...
The Assistant Director of Monitoring and Enforcement, Development Control Department of Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC), Nathaniel Atebije, has given strong reasons why Mpape, a settlement in Bwari Area Council, is the major target for the...
Like the dreaded cabal in the oil sector, a lot of selfish interests are fingered as being behind the daily traffic hold-ups at Mararaba. These interests range from the genuine desire and necessity to survive, to greed and outright mischief. Unfo...
An Arik Airline Boeing 737-700 with registration No 5NMJI on a routine flight to Lagos yesterday brushed the wing of a parked Nigerian Air Force C-130 (NAF 917) at the Yakubu Gowon Airport, Heipang, Jos. The incident happened at about 13:45hrs (1.45pm)...
The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, on Saturday, upheld the election of Governor Idris Wada as the executive governor of Kogi State in the 2011 election. The two appeals challenging the validity of Governor Wada’s election were dismissed by the ...
Reports that the Northern region is behind the rising level of insecurity in the country has led a group in the North to speak out on the region’s position. The Zumunta Incorporated, a Northern people’s forum, has stated that the North is n...