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Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, has disclosed the commission’s plans to canvass the establishment of an Electoral Offences Tribunal (EOT). Prof Jega disclosed this in Abuja yesterday he r...
The House of Representatives is collaborating with the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) to ensure that operating and service companies in Nigeria comply with provisions of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development A...
Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Adeyemi Ikuforiji, got a reprieve last week as Justice James Tsoho of the Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos, vacated his earlier bench warrant empowering the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission...
A member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Mohammed Sada, has expressed worry at the way some media practitioners mislead the public with their reports. Hon. Sada, who represents Katsina Central Federal Constituency on the platform of the Congress ...
Former Sokoto State Governor, Attahiru Dalhatu Bafarawa said, yesterday, that it was easier to defeat a sitting governor just as he described Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as a small political party where lazy politicians rush to make quick money and ...
Gov. Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers has urged the Federal Government to allow states to generate, transmit and distribute electricity in their states. In a statement in Port Harcourt on Tuesday Amaechi said, ``The Federal Government should accommodate stat...
Plateau State alone can contribute N120 billion to the national coffers if its tourism potential is maximized, Chief Olusegun Runsewe, the Director-General, Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC), has said. ``With its rocks, the natural...
A member representing Epe Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives, Hon Lanre Odubote has said that it is wrong for President Goodluck Jonathan to insist on the removal of fuel subsidy. He made this charge in Lagos while speaking with newsm...
Senate President David Mark yesterday appealed to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to make its economic and financial policies friendly to Africa, contending that a policy, which does not work for a supposed beneficiary, is unnecessary. Senator Ma...
Few national leaders die these days with no one outside their country knowing about it. For more than 48 hours. Not even a mention on Twitter. Yet apparently no one, including South Korean intelligence services, was aware that North Korean leader Kim J...
No fewer than 20,000 ghost workers have been detected on the pay roll of the 25 Local Government Areas in Niger, the Commissioner for Local Government Affairs, Alhaji Garba Tagwai, has said. Tagwai, who made the disclosure in Minna on Monday while brie...
The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP), Lagos Chapter, on Monday threw its weight behind the toll system introduced on the Lekki/Epe expressway in Lagos by the state government. The CNPP lauded the initiative as protests continued to trail...
The Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) says that consumers in Umuahia owe it more than N930 million. The Umuahia Business Unit Manager, Mr Vincent Ekwekwu, who made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Umuahia on...
The desire of the Federal Government to provide steady power in the country would remain a dream until all the dead wood in the system are weeded out. The Director-General, Kogi State Directorate for Rural Development, Dr. Paul Attah made this assertio...
As part of efforts by the Akwa Ibom State government to ensure the safety of passengers and aircraft, a Cordless Land Air Wildlife System (CLAWS) has been installed at the International Airport.CLAWS is a system that prevents bird strike and wild-life ...