The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) has accepted defeat in Saturday’s re-run governorship election and blamed its poor performance on intra-party crisis. ``The CPC has no problem with the result and shall not contest it in any c...
Chief Funkekeme Solomon, Delta Commissioner for Works, reaffirmed on Sunday in Asaba that the ministry would not pay contractors on any project unless its completion was certified by the community where it was sited. He stressed that t...
Medical doctors and some other indigenes of Imo are planning a million-man march for the abrogation of a law legalising abortion in the state. The Gender and Equal Opportunities Law was enacted by the Gov. Achike Udenwa administration. The Chairman, Ge...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday declared Alhaji Saidu Dakingari of PDP the winner of the Kebbi re-run governorship election held on Saturday. The Returning Officer, Prof. Suleiman Bilbis, said that Dakingari s...
Commercial activities in Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo and its environs have been paralysed for weeks following a blackout that hit the area. Checks by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Auchi, headquarters of the local gove...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Malam Bello Kaoje of PDP as the winner of Bagudo/Suru Federal Constituency re-run election held on Saturday. The Returning Officer, Mr Shehu Abubakar of Othman Danfodio Unive...
Gov. Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara has attributed Nigeria economic setback to the inability of past governments to formulate the right policies to transform agriculture. Ahmed made this known in Ilorin on Saturday w...
The Kenya Aids Vaccination Initiative (KAVI) has expressed its willingness to collaborate with Nigeria to tackle diseases in Africa. Prof. Omu Anzala of the University of Nairobi and Programme Director of KAVI told the News Age...
Let's face it, no one is perfect. No matter how hard you try, or how loving and respectful a couple you are, you are bound to get into a disagreement once in a while. People from different backgrounds and of different attitudes are often brought to...
Every part of the world has natural endowments, but some parts are more naturally endowed than others. In this part of the world, (Nigeria) our natural endowments are so vast that some are even being overlooked or ignored. A case study of waste m...
With the controversy over the stealing of pension funds by light-fingered minds of the scheme boiling over, Senator Oluremi Tinubu (ACN, Lagos) looks at the big picture and wades in with a bill seeking to establish the National Security Agency for aged...
Igwurita is a very busy semi-urban community in Rivers State. Though, it is one of the closest communities to Port Harcourt, the state capital, Igwurita community is in Ikwerre local government area of the state. On Saturday, March 17, 2012, the peacef...
It is not in the African culture to take one’s life but it seems that things are taking a different pattern in our society now a days. Out of fear of being disowned, young Maryam decided that she was better off dead. BLESSING UKEMENA writes. Mary...
In every part of Katsina State, one is sure to find illegal road blocks constructed by communities in the guise of guarding against over speeding and reckless driving. In virtually all the road side communities especially those on the highways the peop...
The Director General of the Edo State Liaisons Office in Abuja Tony Aiyijina, in this interview with JAMES UWEM, he talks about his stewardship and as well evaluates political developments in the state. How has it been like serving as ...