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Rivers Commissioner for Social Welfare and Rehabilitation, Mr Joe Poroma, has pledged to support the bill before the state House of Assembly on the physically challenged persons. Poroma made the pledge while declaring open a one day public h...
Senate President David Mark has called on members of the Boko Haram Sect to accept Federal Government’s proposal for dialogue. A statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Kola Ologbondiyan, said Mark made...
The Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Professor Adetokunbo Babatunde Sofoluwe is dead. Aged 62, Professor Sofoluwe reportedly slumped during a meeting on friday at the Senate Chambers of the institution. He was rushed to the Lag...
Unknown gunmen on Friday, shot dead Alhaji Mohammed Alli, a prominent leader of the Shiites group in Kano State. LEADERSHIP gathered that the men stormed the late Alli’s house along Gadan kaya area of Kano, to demand for motorbikes for their oper...
The Speaker, House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal on Friday called on the leadership of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) to withdraw all its pending court cases. The Speaker, who made the...
A human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana, on Friday berated the Lagos State Government for threatening to evict the recently sacked 788 doctors from their official quarters. Falana, who spoke with journalists on the issue in Ikeja, said the government'...
An Abuja Chief Magistrates’ Court has stayed proceedings in a defamation suit filed by Gov. Gabriel Suswam of Benue against Kaduna-based Power Steering Magazine. Chief Magistrate Hafsat Soso-Sadiq stayed the proceedings in Abuja on Friday followi...
The Federal Government has released allocations to four local governments currently under a state of emergency in Plateau. The emergency rule was declared by President Goodluck Jonathan in December 2011. ``Yes the money has finally been released....
The Abuja branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) on Friday described as laudable, the National Judicial Council’s recommendation to President Goodluck Jonathan to recall the suspended Justice Ayo Salami, President, Court of Appeal. Th...
Rivers Governor Rotimi Amaechi on Friday advocated a change in the nomenclature of the Almajiri school to check possible stigmatisation of potential students. The governor made the call at a special meeting on the Almajiri Education Programme chaired b...
The National Chairman of Labour Party, Mr Dan Nwanyanwu, said on Friday that the party was committed to deepening its hold on ethos of democracy through the conduct of free and fair congresses. Nwanyanwu made this known in Abuja&nbs...
Alhaji Dayyabu Garga, the National Secretary, Petroleum Tanker Drivers, says the association will support the Federal Government to fight indiscriminate parking of articulated vehicles on major roads across the country. Garga told the News Agency...
House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs has summoned Mr Olugbenga Ashiru, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, to appear before it to clarify Nigeria’s relationship with other African countries. Ashiru is to appear before the comm...
A 28-year-old robbery suspect on Friday changed his plea from guilty to not guilty as a Yaba Magistrates’ Court was preparing to sentence him. The accused, Kehinde Ola, had pleaded guilty to the charge of robbery before the court on Tuesday follo...
Senator Bukola Saraki is on the spot no doubt, but is he really hounded his supporters say? UCHENNA AWOM in this analysis weigh in to some of the conjectures Is it enough to say that Senator Bukola Saraki, former governor of Kwara State is on the...