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The Governor of Imo State, Chief Owelle Rochas Okorocha has declared emergency on all the bad roads in the 27 local governments of the State and said that they will be completed and commissioned soon. Already contracts have been awarded for the d...
Former Minister of Defence and a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chieftain, Dr Shettima Mustafa, at the weekend vowed to bring the South West States presently under the control of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, back to the PDP if elected chairman...
Contrary to public opinion that Sokoto State Governor Aliyu Wamakko would be disqualified from seeking return to government house on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ticket, the party cleared the governor and two others, FRANCIS AGBO reports. Nigeria...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has won the 17 chairmanship seats and 259 out of the 260 councillorship seats in Enugu State. Announcing the results of the council poll which took place last Saturday, the chairman of the Enugu State Independent Elec...
The Federal Government says it is resolutely committed to transforming the society by vigorously pursuing its priority programmes of development of infrastructure. Vice-President Namadi Sambo stated this at the public presentation of Steering News Maga...
The battle for the control of the Southern Ijaw Local Government Coucnil area of Bayelsa State between loyalsist of President Goodluck Jonathan and Governor Timipre Sylva yesterday deepened with the resolution of the members of the Legislative arm of t...
The erstwhile secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), Chief Ojo Maduekwe, has warned his party to eschew the politics of handpicking candidates for various positions, instead of letting voters’ decision prevail. The ex-minister of f...
Taking holistic ex-ray of the happenings in the country, the Sultan of Sokoto and President Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs of Nigeria, Alhaji Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III yesterday saidthat the “problems facing us in this country are l...
President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, urged leaders of Western Australia’s solid minerals industry to invest their resources, skills, expertise and technology in the development of Nigeria’s solid minerals sector, saying that his administ...
As the first phase of the Sokoto State University project nears completion and its scheduled 2013 kick-off date, the state governor, Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, has said that there is no going back on his administration’s bid to enhance the educat...
President of the Senate, Senator David Mark has, for the umpteenth time, assured Nigerians that the present Senate will expeditiously pass the Petroleum Industry Bill before it in order to make the sector more viable. Mark, while addressing the Branch ...
Kogi State governor-elect, Captain Idris Wada and his deputy, Arch. Abayomi Awoniyi, yesterday received their certificate of return at the national headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja, promising not to betray t...
Faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State loyal to President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday announced the emergence of a former commandant of the National Defence College, Rear Admiral Gboribiogha John Jonah as a running mate t...
The Niger State government has entered another phase of the beatification and infrastructural development of the state capital, awarding a contract for the streetlight on eastern bye-pass, Minna at the cost of N268.7 million. The contract award ceremon...
Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State yesterday inaugurated the state Joint Patrol Squad and warned all criminal elements to stay clear of the state. The 146-member squad codenamed, ``Operation Burst’’ is made up of 65 officers of the Nigeri...