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Despite being the youngest senator at the National Assembly in this current dispensation, Senator Nurudeen Abatemi-Usman (Kogi Central, PDP) comes across like a fearless politician, especially when it comes to expressing issues that border on the welfa...
Bayelsa State Governor Timipre Sylva yesterday threw open another battle line with the Leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as he insisted on contesting the February 2012 governorship election on the platform of the PDP. He said that the is...
The federal government has warned the United Nations over the escalating global security challenges, saying that the recent incident in Kosovo was an indication that the world still faces security threats. Addressing the United Nations Secu...
Group Politics Editor, FRANCIS AGBO writes on last Saturday’s governorship election in Kogi State and how the battle was won and lost. The victory of Retired Captain Idris Wada in last Saturday’s governorship election in Kogi State was expe...
Hon. Yusuf Manu Swa represents Balanga/Billiri Federal Constituency of Gombe State. In this interview with PEMBI STEPHEN-DAVID, he speaks on the EFCC chairman and other issues. DON’T YOU FEEL THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT OF THE EFCC ACT IS MEANT TO STI...
Imo State governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, has directed the immediate suspension of the monthly salaries of all the traditional rulers in six local government areas of the state over what he termed “an increase in criminal activities” in t...
The Borno State government has set up an environmental mobile court to check indiscriminate dumping of wastes in Maiduguri, the state capital. Permanent secretary, in the state’s Ministry of Environment, Alhaji Mustapha Kurna, disclosed the plan ...
The Anambra state government has issued a warning to all street beggars, especially children used by their parents to beg for alms, to vacate the streets or be arrested. 29 of such women who displayed their children as strategy for getting alms h...
The Former Director of Corp Welfare of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Dr John Abhuere has disclosed that the elite were responsible for the current security challenges wrecking havoc in the country. He made the disclosure in Abuja yesterday w...
Former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, yesterday called for the abrogation of the law that tries public officers for keeping foreign accounts describing it as outdated, even as he said his trial by the Code of Conduct Tribunal was an a...
….As Communities Threaten to Shut Oil operations The House of Representatives Committee on Environment is investigating Shell Petroleum Development Company and Exxon Mobil over their alleged breach of a joint venture partnership agreement...
Before the inauguration of the Seventh National Assembly in June this year, the Ohan bridge along Alapa – Bakase – Baruten road was in deplorable condition. The importance of this bridge to the socio-economic activities of the people of Kwa...
Governor Umaru Tanko Al-makura, of Nasarawa state, took over the mantle of leadership of the state, as the third democratically elected governor, on the 29th of May,2011. Al-makura’s emergence as the governor of the young state has indeed changed...
The residents of Lokoja and the people of Kogi State will not forget in a hurry the recent visit of President Goodluck Jonathan to the state. The president was in the confluence state to attend the grand finale of the campaign for yesterday’s (sa...
Vice President Namadi Sambo yesterday described corruption in in the country as a cancer which had been frustrating government’s efforts towards uplifting the quality of life of the people. He vowed that government would fight the cankerworm to a...