The three-day warning strike embarked upon by Doctors in the employment of Lagos state to demand for the implementation of the Consolidated Medical Salary Scale Structure (CONMESS) recorded partial success yesterday as some of the doctors were on dutie...
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has raised the alarm over ‘credible threats’ to Governor Rauf Aregbesola’s life allegedly being engineered by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to destabilize the South-West and soften the g...
The Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) yesterday expressed readiness to question the audit report of the Timi Alaibe led committee that indicted the administration of Timipre Sylva of N660billion fraud in Bayelsa State, if the former governor would com...
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Rivers State has called for a probe into the N500 million allegedly paid to refuse contractors on monthly basis by the state government. Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, had at a recent interactive session with ...
The Federal Government yesterday approved N2.6billion for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to print 40 million permanent voters’ card, saying it will further strengthen effort by the President Goodluck Jonathan’s adminis...
The Federal Government of Nigeria has explained why the country should continue to partner with investors from the United States in the area of agriculture. In his keynote address at the on-going Nigerian Investors Forum on Agriculture in Washington DC...
Accusations by foreign airlines that fares from Nigeria are higher than other countries with the same equidistant because of high taxes has been debunked by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), saying some of the taxes in Britain are even high...
Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson has served notice that he will take far-reaching and sometimes painful steps to reposition the state, which he says is in a very bad economic shape. By SONI DANIEL. What is your agenda for Bayelsa Stat...
United States presidential hopeful Rick Santorum yesterday suspended his presidential campaign. With this development the race is now between Mitt Romney, the US Republican candidate, and incumbent President Barack Obama to face each ...
As various political interpretations are being given the recent visit of former president and the immediate past chairman, Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, the Edo State chapter of the party...
In a rare show of human milk of kindness, a father who lost one of his children and the other critically injured in the Easter Sunday morning suicide bomb attack in Kaduna has declared that he has forgiven the attacker who killed his children. Alhaji M...
The Ekiti State government has concluded arrangement to provide jobs for 1,500 youths under its Youth Commercial Agriculture Development Programme (YCAD). The move is aimed at reducing unemployment in the state and ensuring that agriculture contributes...
Osun State governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola has awarded road construction contracts worth N17.5 billion to Hunge International Limited for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of six selected roads across the state. According to the governor, the c...
Eight more people have been confirmed dead as hospitals in Kaduna metropolis battle to save lives of victims of Sunday bomb explosion, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Five of the victims on admission at St. Gerard Hospital were confirmed dead...
The Bauchi State chapter of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), has warned its suspended chairman, Alhaji Shehu Barau Ningi, to stop parading himself as chairman of the party. The care taker chairman of the party, Aliyu S. Abubakar, ...