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The House of Representatives has disclosed plans to trim the recurrent expenditure in the 2012 budget proposal of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA). This is part of measures to ensure accelerated infrastructural development in the FCT...
The lingering dispute bordering on the displacement of indigenes of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), may soon be resolved as a bill for an act to establish the FCT Resettlement, Compensation and Rehabilitation Board, has passed through the second r...
Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke of the Micheal Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike, Abia, has commended the Senate for passing the University Miscellaneous Provision Act on the retiring age of professors. Osodeke said that passing the law was one of the ne...
Gov. Liyel Imoke of Cross River says the state government will utilise, meaningfully, the state's share from the excess crude account. Imoke gave the assurance Thursday in Calabar at a press briefing, soon after getting the nod from the South-South...
The Kogi House of Assembly has set up a four-man ad hoc committee to monitor the implementation of the N97 per litre pump price of petrol, with an appeal to marketers to open for business. The House constituted the committee at its plenary on Wednesday...
Some consumers across states on Wednesday urged the Federal Government to establish a price regulatory agency to regulate the prices of foods items in view of the new petrol price regime of N97 per litre. In Lagos, a respondent said in spite of t...
Gov. Rauf Aregbesola of Osun on Wednesday urged the Federal Government to withdraw the soldiers deployed in Lagos as a matter of urgency, to avoid a repeat of what he calls the “nation’s ugly history”. Aregbesola, in a sta...
The Police on Wednesday shot dead two armed robbery suspects in a shoot-out, Mr. Suleiman Abba, the Rivers State Commissioner of Police, said. Abba told newsmen in Port Harcourt that the Police also smashed a bomb making syndicate during th...
Staff of Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) in Abuja on Wednesday staged a peaceful protest against the order by the Minister of Power, Prof. Bart Nnaji, to transfer them out of Abuja. The workers gathered outside the company’s corporate off...
Archbishop John Onaiyekan, the Catholic Archbishop of Abuja has called for greater understanding between Christians and Muslims, to enhance peace and unity in the country. Onaiyekan made the appeal on Wednesday in Abuja during the “Interfaith For...
Niger government, on Wednesday assured victims of the recent violence which erupted in Minna over the removal of fuel subsidy, that it would offer adequate compensation to them. Alhaji Yahayah Dansallau, Chairman of the 13-man committee set up by the g...
A bill to alter the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 to remove the word “Force” from the Nigeria Police Force passed second reading in the House of Representatives. The objective of the bill is to delete the word &l...
Three banks officials said on Wednesday in Lagos that the delay in the e-payment of Federal Government workers’ salaries was due to network problem and banks’ internal challenges. The officials from First Bank, UBA and Union Bank gave the e...
Against the backdrop of the Christmas Day Bombing of the St. Theresa’s Catholic Church, Madalla and other acts of terrorism in the country, the Senate last week frowned at the fragile security situation in the country and called for urgent action...
Engineer Markus Gundiri is the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) gubernatorial candidate in the election holding in Adamawa State next week. In this interview with newsmen, he spoke to a select journalists on his ambition and the form of governmen...