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Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke has commissioned a 128 Kilometre South-South Gas Pipeline in Calabar. The Minister said that the project would contribute in accelerating the economy of Cross River and Akwa Ibom states, the ...
Detectives at the Delta State Command of the Nigeria Police Asaba have arrested a prime suspect in the alleged murder of Chief Amenughanwon Uti Chinyem, the Eleme of Obianyima, near Abavo, Ika South Local Government Area of the State. He is Chief...
About 10,000 former members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who joined the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) shortly before the last general elections have formally declared for the ACN. Speaking on behalf of the detectors, hundreds of...
The apex body of pen pushers in the country, the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, has nominated the Ondo State governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko as the beneficiary of its 2011 Governor of the year award In a statement announcing the Governor ...
Katsina State government has concluded arrangements to kick-start a state-wide mass immunization against cerebral spinal meningitis, the state governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Shehu Shema, has said. Governor Shema who spoke through the Commissioner of Health, ...
Chief Emeka Wogu, the Minister of Labour and Productivity, on Tuesday said that the Federal Government would save about 6 billion dollars by removing fuel subsidy. Wogu said this while declaring open the 5th Quadrennial National Delegates Conference of...
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has urged the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) to brace up and deal with the security challenges facing the county by halting the drift to anarchy. Receiving an 11-member peace delegation of the ACF led by the f...
PATRICK OCHOGA in Benin City writes on the deft moves by General Charles Airhiavbere to be the next governor of Edo State in 2012. Retired Major General Charles Airhiavbere, gubernatorial aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (...
The Ministry of Youth Development is set to host an international conference to sensitise Nigerians on the need to change their attitudes and behaviours that could lead to violence against women. The Minister of Youth Development, Mallam Bolaji Abdulla...
Professor Steven Torkuma Ugbah, governorship candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Benue state for the April general elections. He spoke recently with a select group of journalists in Makurdi. SOLOMON AYADO was there for LEADERSHIP. ...
Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, yesterday threatened to revoke the Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) of any property in the state rented to armed robbers or used for the perpetuation of criminal activities. Fashola, who dangled the...
More Nigerians have continued to pay condolence visits to the family home of the late Publisher of Guardian Newspaper, Chief Alex Ibru. Those who visited the Ikoyi home of the late media guru included former Minister of Transpor...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), yesterday, destroyed heaps of marijuana which weighed 24,700kg with a riot act on hemp farmers in Oyo State to beware. The chairman of the agency, Ahmadu Giade, in his keynote address described th...
The Group Managing Director of the Odu’a Investment Company Limited, Mr Adebayo Jimoh, and four other management officials of the conglomerate were yesterday invited by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC...
Both the security operatives and the general public are to blame for the current insecurity bedeviling the country, according to the Deputy Inspector-General of Police, DIG Audu Abubakar, asserted this yesterday in Bauchi State during his official visi...