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The Bauchi State government says it is set to resuscitate cotton ginnery in the state to complement Federal Government's effort at reviving the nation's ailing textile industries. Dr Dauda Abdullahi, the Permanent Secretary in the state Ministr...
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has announced plans to decentralise its functions, to give more powers to its state offices for effective service delivery. Dr Christian Oboh, Managing Director of NDDC, said this on Tuesday in Port Harcour...
An Abuja High Court on Tuesday dismissed the criminal charges filed against two former staff of the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) over alleged fraud. The EFCC had on Dec. 31, 2004 arraigned Sani Shaidu, Salihu Usman and Hamza Nasir over ...
The Federal Republic of Nigeria has been described as a “desolate” country. The comment was made by the national leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria and former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Tinubu who spoke on Mon...
Contrary to a report that a religious tension was brewing in Osun State, the state chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has debunked the rumour. CAN which said there was no truth in the rumour, stressed that Osun State was not mired in...
Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Coordinating Minister for the Economy, on Monday in Abuja said the growth collectible revenue estimated in 2012 budget was N9.692 trillion. Okonjo-Iweala, who gave the figure at the 2012 budget presentation organised by the Budg...
The governors of states in the South-South zone have appealed to members of the National Assembly to expedite action in the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill. Gov. Liyel Imoke of Cross River made the appeal on Monday in Uyo at the end of the Gover...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has lamented over the inability of the Plateau Government to establish a State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), in spite of the conflicts plaguing the state. The NEMA Zonal Coordinator, Alhaji Alhassan...
The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has seized three oil tankers loaded with fuel lifted from a vandalised NNPC oil pipeline in Kogi. A statement in Abuja by the Corps' Public Relations Officer, Mr Emmanuel Okeh, and made availabl...
The United Kingdom Prosecutor that is currently trying the former governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori for multiple frauds on Monday indicted the former Chieftain of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), stressing that he stylishly defrauded...
The University of Abuja Chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has threatened to call an indefinite strike over the comments of the university’s Vice Chancellor, Prof James Adelabu. In a statement, signed by Dr Clement C...
Pakistan is food sufficient and produces more wheat than the entire Africa. In this interview with RUTH YAMTA, the Acting High Commissioner of Pakistan in Nigeria, Ahmed Ali Sirohey, shares his country’s successes in agriculture and textile indus...
Senate Minority Leader, George Akume, the Benue state Governor Gabriel Suswam and the governorship candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Prof. Steven Ugba, yesterday, resolved to put behind their political differences in the interest of the...
The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) has expelled the chairman of the Bauchi State Chapter of the party, Alhaji Barau Ningi. Alhaji Ningi was expelled for insubordination and intransigence, and for running a parallel executive that the party...
Kaduna State government has called for a review of the revenue allocation formula so as to improve its receipts from the Federation Allocation Accounts Committee (FAAC). It said that what it was presently receiving was so meager and that the stat...