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Former Governor of Kano State, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to as a matter of urgency, act decisively on the state of insecurity in the country. “Nigerians are still going through a period of grief and mourning...
Following discussions at the just-concluded Nigeria–United States Bi-National Commission (BNC), the United States will improve the Nigeria’s security services by modernising its security agencies. This was disclosed in the joint communiqué...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday said it reviewed downwards its 2012 budget from N52billion in 2011 to N47.3billion to deal with the challenges facing the nation. The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (IN...
The Boko Haram insurgency would have been averted if there was justice and equity in the northern part of the country, the Arewa Youths Forum (AYF) has said. The forum called on government to go back to the remote factors that led to the birth of the g...
Calling for independent probes, Commonwealth and United Nations Secretary-Generals, Mr. Kamalesh Sharma and Ban Ki-moon have expressed their revulsion at the attacks on innocent people in Kano state, Nigeria, on 20 January 2012. “We condemn these...
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has commenced the process of full implementation of the second batch of 29 mega projects sited across the Niger Delta region. A break-down of the mega projects indicated that eight of such projects are site...
Edo State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described as illegal and unconstitutional the delay in conducting election into local government Councils in the state yesterday called for the immediate dissolution of the 18 LG’s. The ...
The Action Congress of Nigeria in Kogi State has concluded arrangements to drag the state commissioner of police, Mr. Marvel Akpoyibo to court, for human rights violation. The chief strategist to Prince Abubakar Audu, Hon. Dino Melaye who disclosed thi...
A new joint security outfit named Operation Thunder has been launched in Akwa Ibom state. Performing the ceremony yesterday at the operational base of the squad in Uruan local government area, Governor Godswill Akpabio said the action was a demonstrati...
Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola (SAN), yesterday, continued his rendition of account of his stewardship as he marked his 1,700 days in office. He urged Lagosians to voluntarily pay their taxes in order to provide his administr...
Secretary General, African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP-Group), Dr Mohamed Ibn Chambers, on Sunday endorsed the candidature of Nigeria’s Aisha Abdullahi, for the post of Commissioner for Political Affairs of the AU Comm...
The wife of the President, Mrs Patience Jonathan, yesterday, in Lagos commissioned the new naval ship, NNS THUNDER, a war ship donated to Nigeria by the United States Government. The NNS THUNDER, which was handed over to Nigeria on May 13, 2011, set sa...
The ad-hoc investigative panel of the House of Representatives into the management of subsidy funds failed to sit yesterday because of the absence of members who were away to Kano State following Friday’s multiple bomb blasts. Some agencies who h...
A former Imo State federal commissioner at the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMFAC), Dr. Otuokere Njaka, yesterday, in Abuja, called on the Governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, to help revive the Njaka Community Medi...
Nigeria has 60 out of 600 polio cases worldwide, the Minister of State for Health, Dr Muhammad Ali Pate, has said. Speaking at the National Consultative Stakeholders’ Conference on Polio Eradication in Nigeria, organised by the National Pri...