The Zamfara State House of Assembly on Thursday directed its committees on Environment and Public Finance to investigate the N1.3 billion Ecological Fund released to the state by the Federal Government. The Speaker of the House, Alhaji Garba Rikiji, ga...
Dana Air spokesman Tony Usidamen on Thursday told a Lagos State Coroner that the plane that crashed on June 3 at Iju-Ishaga, a Lagos suburb, had a faulty engine two years ago. Usidamen, the Head, Corporate Communications of the airline, disclosed...
A port operator, Mr Jimoh Umar, has urged Alhaji Habib Abdullahi, the new Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), to work toward connecting the nation’s ports with rail lines. Umar, the President, Senior Staff Association of Comm...
Senate President David Mark said on Thursday that the disagreement between the legislature and the executive over the non-implementation of the 2012 budget was necessary. The Senate president said this at an event to mark Startimes’ second annive...
The PDP in Edo has demanded an apology from Gov. Adams Oshiomhole for allegedly accusing the party and its leadership of being responsible for the death of his Principal Private Secretary, Mr Olaitan Oyerinde. The Youth Leader of PDP in the state, Mr V...
The National Pension Commission (PENCOM) has issued a 28-day notice to Pension Fund Administrators (PFAs) to meet the new capital base of N1 billion or fold up. This was contained in a press statement released by Mr Emeka Onuorah, PENCOM’s Head o...
The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, on Thursday in Abuja called on stakeholders to discontinue the use of conventional syringes in government hospitals. Chukwu made the call while signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Fede...
Chinese badminton player Yu Yang on Thursday announced her decision to quit the sport after being expelled from the 2012 Olympic Games in London for throwing matches at the Games. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Yu was among eight women&#...
A total of 33 victims of human trafficking have been rescued by the Uyo zone of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and Other Related Matters (NAPTIP). Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Uyo, the Zon...
Vice President Namadi Sambo has faulted advertorials spnsored in the media pegging his age at 60, saying he was born on August 2, 1954 and just attained the age of 58 on his birth which was yesterday. A statement by Senior Special Adviser on media and ...
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Four suspected kidnappers yesterday met their waterloo during a shoot-out with policemen in Delta State. The suspects had at about 7.30am kidnapped one Chinedu Amadi, an employee of oil giants Chevron along Refinery Road, Effurun, but the police team w...
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, has stressed the need for the states Independent Electoral Commission (SIECs) to conduct credible elections at local government areas. He said that, by condu...
Gbaramatu and Ugborode communities in Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State have threatened show down with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) over what they described as deceitful bungling of agreement reached with them ...