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The Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly has expressed displeasure over an alleged lopsided employment policy of construction companies, Julius Berger and CCECC. The House claimed that the employment policies of these companies were skewed against indigen...
The people of Odeligbo Okpuitumo in Izzi Local Government Area, were on March 25, 2011 thrown into confusion when the news broke that one Mrs. Rosemary Akpu allegedly poisoned her husband, Mr. Daniel Akpu, in order to retain her boy friend. The late Ak...
Worried by the state of the Sokoto-Yauri-Kontagora-Ilorin road, the House of Representatives has urged the Federal Ministry of Works to rehabilitate and dualise it within the shortest possible time in line with the already completed engineering d...
The House of Representatives, yesterday, rejected a motion that sought to condemn the recent kidnap of three expatriates from a vessel serving at the Chevron oil field at Agbami, Bayelsa State. The motion which was sponsored by Hon Daniel R...
The federal government and state governments have been called upon to utilise all the available resources at their disposal for the provision of security of life and property rather than expend them on unnecessary projects. The minority leader, Bauchi ...
The Chairman of the Oyo State Task Force on Flood Prevention and Management, Dr. Bolanle Wahab, has disclosed that a total of 2,105 buildings were washed away by flood disasters which ravaged the city of Ibadan on August 26. He also said that a t...
The Federal Government yesterday approved N1.5billion for the expansion and maintenance work on the second phase of the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos. The Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, disclosed this while briefing State House corresponde...
Amid fears and warnings that increased sand mining in the State could cause landslide and tsunami, Lagos State government has banned surface sand excavation activities in the State with immediate effect. The order came on the heels of...
Fourteen persons were confirmed dead and 43 others injured in an auto accident at Yanbita village in Malumfashi Local Government Area of Katsina State. The accident, which occurred yesterday at about 7:3pm, involved a Toyota bus registered XE 968 KTN a...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday stated that the ongoing fuel scarcity across Nigeria was a deliberate attempt by the government to forcefully implement the deregulation policy in the oil and gas sector. The labour movement, however, directe...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), North-West Zone, has suspended Alhaji Faruk Gusau, an ex-officio of the zone, over a paid publication against the Governor of Sokoto State, Aliyu Wamakko. Alhaji Gusua had signed a material published in nationa...
The Borno State government yesterday signed a N39 million contract for the upgrade and connection of 12 towns and villages in the southern part of the state to the national power grid. The contract involved the rehabilitation of the old 33KVA line from...
Former Governor of Anambra State, Dr. Chinwoke Mbadinuju, has demanded the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), gubernatorial ticket for 2014 as a way of assuaging a perceived injustice meted out against him in 2003 by the party. He vowed ...
Nasarawa State intending Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land of Israel have been challenged to see Nigeria as a better place to live in on earth. Governor Umaru Al-makura, who said this yesterday while bidding the pilgrims farewell, said that, &l...
The Rivers State wing of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), has said that media practitioners in the country owe the citizens a sacred duty to use the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act to resist all forms of dictatorship at the three tiers of governm...