Politics

Sports Minister, Suleiman Yusuf, has said the Federal Government planned to concession the two National stadia in Lagos and Abuja under the new Public Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement. Suleiman told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Addis Ababa,...

The former Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Lagos (Unilag), Prof. Lai Olurode, has said that the death of Libya’s former President, Col. Muammar Gaddafi, is a lesson to sit-tight African leaders. Olurode told the News Agency of Nig...

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) says it is not against any meeting with the Federal Government, its ministers or agents, but insists that such meeting must have a clear agenda.Mr. Owei Lakemfa, the acting General Secretary of NLC, said this yesterday...

An official of the National Hajj Commission (NAHCOM), Sheikh Adam Idoko has disclosed that no fewer than 62,000 Nigerian pilgrims have so far been air lifted to Saudi Arabia for this year’s pilgrimage Idoko, who is the NAHCOM National  Commi...

National Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Ilorin, the Kwara  State capital, yesterday  upheld the victory of Senator Bukola Saraki of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the April 9 Kwara Central senatorial election. The trib...

Running on the platform of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Senator Olugbenga Onaolapo Obadara defeated Senator Iyabo Obasanjo Bello of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to represent Ogun Central Senatorial District. Obadara who is chairman, Senate C...

The Senate Committee on Aviation, yesterday directed the minister of Aviation, Stella Odua-Ogiewumi to provide the debt profile of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) within two weeks. The...

The lingering state of insecurity in the country has been blamed on poverty and corruption. A member of the House of Representatives, representing Magama/ Jigau federal constituency of Niger State, Atiku Shamaki made the assertion recently during a cha...

Flag bearer of the Labour Party in the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Kogi State, Alhaji Ibrahim Usman, has declared that surprise awaits the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the poll. Usman, who stated this in Lokoja yesterday in an...

The Senate yesterday unanimously confirmed one Independent National Electoral Commissioner (INEC) and eight Resident Electoral Commissioners.The Senate also  urged the authorities of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and the Ministry of Transpor...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Gombe State is to engage the services of 1,052 ad-hoc staff for the conduct of the Balanga/Billiri Federal Constituency by-election fixed for October 22. The INEC Administrative Secretary in Gombe...

The provost of Yusuf Bala Usaman College of Legal and General Studies in Daura, Katsina State, Dr. Muazu Abdullahi Saulawa, has faulted the recent demonstration by the students, insisting that it was due to management’s tough stance on examinatio...

The federal government is committed to partnering with the private sector to ensure sustained growth of the industries and make them globally competitive, the Head of Service of the Federation, Alhaji Isah Bello Sali, has said. Sali stated this in his ...

Hundreds of youths in Mubi, Adamawa State, are now going into commercial motorcycling to beat the unemployment scourge, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) has observed.The transportation trade, locally called `achaba’, is increasingly becoming popu...

Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun  has expressed his administration’s readiness to encourage skills acquisition among the teeming population of youths in the state. Amosun who said this while receiving reports of the fact-finding panels o...