Professor Julius Ihonvbere, a stalwart of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and two-time gubernatorial candidate in Edo State, has defected to the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN). In an address to his teaming supporters who gathered in his country ho...
As activities of the dreaded islamic sect, Boko Haram continue unabated, the Prelate, Methodist Church of Nigeria, His Eminence, Ola Makinde, yesterday said that neither the sect nor anybody could islamise Nigeria. This was just as he called for ...
The Supreme Court yesterday upheld the victory of the Benue State governor, Gabriel Suswam in the April 2011 governorship poll. In a unanimous decision, the seven-man panel of the apex court dismissed the appeal brought by the governorship candidate of...
On 29 May, Nigeria celebrated the 13th anniversary of democracy. The country never had it for this long since the military misadventure to power on January 15, 1966. President Goodluck Jonathan applauded the military for this landmark achievement. BAYO...
The statistics of the state of the Nigerian women and adolescent girls are appalling. Significantly, they are worrisome all over the country, North, South, East or West. Women everywhere in Nigeria have worse life chances than men. Global statistic has...
President Goodluck Jonathan said, yesterday, peace, political stability and socio-economic development in Africa remained central to Nigeria’s foreign policy. Speaking at an audience with the new Mauritanian Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. B.A. Abderr...
A former Lagos State governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has urged Federal Government to ensure thorough investigation into the circusmtances leading to the Dana Air plane crash in Lagos on Sunday. Tinubu, who stated this in his reaction yesterda...
The Senate, yesterday, said that it would explore the 30 days provision in the constitution to force the executive to assent to bills presented to it by the National Assembly. 21 Bills have so far been passed at the Senate out of a total of 178 bills i...
A Federal High Court in Abuja, yesterday, admitted former Bayelsa State Governor Timipire Sylva to bail for N100 million with one surety in like sum. While delivering ruling on Sylva’s bail application, the trial judge, Justice Adamu Bello ...
The end is in sight to the refusal of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to subject itself to appropriation by the National Assembly, the House of Representatives said yesterday. This is just as it has reiterated its resolve to henceforth override denia...
A total sum of N68.6 billion is to be spent by the federal government in the purchase of text books for the Universal Basic Education( UBE) programme, the Minister of Education, Prof Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufai said yesterday. The minister who revealed...
The Governor of Niger State, Dr Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, has said that people should stop distracting President Goodluck Jonathan with talk about 2015 general election which is three years away. Aliyu who spoke, yesterday, in Minna said that polit...
A father who lost two full grown up children in the DANA air crash, by name Mr. Solomon Onita told&nbs...
Vice President Namadi Sambo, yesterday, directed the Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE), the Secretariat to the National Council on Privatisation (NCP), to furnish the Council with clear information on its plans, activities and progress towards the im...
The Senate, yesterday, said that Ministries, Departments and Agencies abuse the federal character principle in the recruitment of staff. Senate Chairman on Federal Character, Sen. Awaisu Kuta, who stated this when he briefed newsmen on the activities o...