National chairman of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, has told the party’s members in the United States of America to commence preparations for the 2015 general elections so as to displace the ruling party when the time co...
A 52-year-old man, Mohammed Lawal, was yesterday sentenced to six months imprisonment for picking a senator’s pocket inside a hotel in Abuja. Lawal was said to have pretended to beg for money from his victim, Senator Emmanuel Nkwocha, as the sena...
In order to put a stop to the decay of highways across the country, the federal government has threatened to punish erring contractors by limiting their activities to small lots. Speaking during a meeting with highway contractors in Abuja yesterday, th...
The Civil Liberty Organisation (CLO) has called on the Inspector-General of P olice, Mohammed Abuba ng the murder of a deputy director in the Anambra–Imo River Basin Development Authority, Owerri, Sir Basil Ejezie. He was allegedly clubbed to dea...
The senior special assistant to the president on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Dr. Precious Gbeneol, has warned states and local government councils against undue delay of MDGs funds in banks, with the intent of earning interest on them. Gbeneol...
The aviation agencies comprising Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), have said that the labour unions that disrupted Arik Air’s flight leading to t...
The Benue state Police Command has denied the rumour making the round that a bomb planted opposite the main gate of the police command headquarters in Makurdi was detonated. There were claims on Thursday, that an Audi 80 saloon car with registration nu...
Trouble looms for Minister of Information and Communication, Labaran Maku, over his alleged remarks, which the Senate views as disparaging. To underscore the brewing discord the Senate yesterday summoned him(Maku) to appear before it on Tuesday, Septem...