Gov. Adams Oshiomhole of Edo on Friday dissolved the state executive council ahead of his swearing-in for a second term on Monday. The governor, who announced the dissolution at a valedictory executive council session in Benin, expressed app...
Financial disclosure laws requiring public officials to file a statement of their assets, liabilities and interests can make corruption easier to detect. However, a new World Bank database finds that although 78 percent of countries covered by the data...
The speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly yesterday, under a tense atmosphere, resigned his position when the lawmakers attempted to impeach him over what they described as gross financial misconduct. About 40 armed youths stormed the Assembly C...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed March 16, 2013 for Abuja Area Councils Elections.The Resident Electoral Commissioner (INEC) FCT State office, Dr. Godwin M. Kwanga, stated this at a press briefing held, yesterday in Abuja....
Former Governor of Yobe State, Senator Buka Abba Ibrahim, yesterday, announced on the floor of the Senate that the Boko Haram sect deployed threats and extreme coercion in the recruitment of its sponsors just as he accused the Joint Task Force (JTF) of...
In The High Court Of Lagos State In The Ikeja Judicial Division Holden At High Court No 29, Family And Probate Division Ikeja Before Hon Justice Joseph Oyewole on Thursday November 1, 2012. Suit No: ID/124c/2004 Between The State……&hellip...
On accommodation for pilgrims Adamu Adamu said: “And on other fronts, pilgrims are forced to have to pay accommodation fees in advance as part of groups registered with agents approved by the Saudi government. This is compulsory even for those wh...
It is now history in Ondo state as the people massively voted for Dr Olusegun Mimiko for a second term in office whereby he recorded a landslide victory as the first governor to achieve this feat. It is now time for the governor to play his part by giv...
Senator Abu Ibrahim (CPC, Katsina) is the Deputy Senate Minority Whip. In this interview with UCHENNA AWOM, he speaks on his indigeneship bill currently before the Senate, saying that time has come for Nigerians to be Nigerians. Why did you come up wit...
Resident Coordinator of the United Nations System in Nigeria, Daouda Toure has revealed that Nigeria does not have any data on poverty reduction. Speaking with journalists at a media briefing on the United Nations System in Nigeria Integrated Implement...
Plateau State Governor, Jonah Jang, has accused the National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), in Plateau State of plotting to cripple his administration with prolonged strikes over the implementation of the nat...
The President of the Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria, Comrade Shehu Sani has said that President Goodluck Jonathan’s economic programme is a sham. Shehu in a statement said that, “almost two years down the road, it’s crys...
The crisis rocking Ogun State Chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP)took a dramatic dimension yesterday when groups in the Party suspended five members each from the opposing factions. First to fire the salvo was the Obasanjo group led by Senator D...
The Nigeria Customs Service, Murtala Muhammed Airport Command, yesterday said it arrested one passenger on an alleged money laundering offence who was in possession of $137,435 at the international wing of the Lagos airport. The passenger identified as...
A transparency group, the African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development, yesterday berated the Bayelsa State government over its alleged poor and insensitive allocation of state resources in the 2012 budget passed by the State House of Assemb...