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The World Bank funded Community and Social Development Project (CSDP) is making huge impact in the life of people in Katsina State. The project has recently disbursed N30 million to 13 communities in the state for the provision of infrastructures. The ...
The Lagos State Government said on Wednesday that it has shut the Alayabiagba and Iganmu markets, both at Orile-Iganmu, for violating environmental laws. The Marshal-General of the Kick Against Indiscipline (KAI) Brigade, Retired Capt. Danjum...
The officials of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) who went to Ezillo in Ebonyi to donate relief materials to the victims of the New Year clashes narrowly escaped mob attack. The team, headed by Dr Bamdele Onimode, the agency's South-...
Dr Fakele Adediran, a don at Covenant University, Ogun, says the Nigerian tax system is ‘’unfair and hindered development of the country’’. Adediran, who specialises in accounting and taxation, stated this in an interview ...
A legal battle is looming between a consulting firm, Mega-Mix Consult Nigeria Ltd and the Kano State Ministry of Science and Technology on one hand and again between the firm and the National Research Institute of Chemical Technology (NRICT), Zaria, ov...
The Nigeria Inter-Religious Council (NIREC) has advised Nigerians to disregard any threat from any group asking them to move from their places of abode. In a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, NIREC Executive Secretary urged the ...
SALISU IBRAHIM writes that while the honeymoon period for Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso administration seems over in Kano State, the commercial nerve-centre is facing tremendous challenges of critical infrastructure and man-power deve...
The crisis in the Bauchi State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party [PDP] has taken a new dimension as the present leadership of the party and the supporters of former Governor of the State, Alhaji Ahmed Mu’azu, who is now aspiring for ...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will today issue certificates of return to 10 members of Hon. Aminu Masari –led faction of the Katsina State Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) that won the January 13, 2011 primaries organi...
Protests over the decision of the federal government to remove subsidy on petroleum products spread as residents shut down business and commercial activities in Lagos and Ibadan, Oyo State capital. Though no casualty was recorded, protesters had to con...
The Chairman of Senate Committee on Agriculture, Sen. Emmanuel Bwacha, says the committee will ensure that more funds are allocated to the National Centre for Agricultural Mechanisation (NCAM), Ilorin, to function optimally. Bwacha said in Abuja ...
Law enforcement agents have beefed up security in Kano metropolis, following a protest by some youths on Monday over the withdrawal of fuel subsidy by the Federal Government. Correspondent who went round the city on Tuesday morning, reports that a...
The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), Rivers State Chapter, says it has withdrawn from further participation in the deliberations of the committee set up by the Federal Government on fuel subsidy removal. The state Chairman of the Congress, Mr Chi...
Professor Olufemi Onabajo, Deputy Vice Chancellor, Lead City University, Ibadan, Oyo State, has called for the repositioning of the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) through the instruments of information and communication technology in order to efficie...
Federal government of Nigeria signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Global Biofuels Limited, an indigenous bio-fuel producer, for the construction of 15 integrated bio-fuel plants in Nigeria estimated to gulp N414bn. The Minister of Trade and Inves...