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Some civil servants in the employ of the Cross River State government may not enjoy the N18,000 minimum wage as the state government has embarked in the process of flushing indolent workers out of the payroll of government. LE...
Those bent on scheming against the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, have been asked to have a rethink by the South East Revival Group, SERG, will not allow Anyim to be a victim of needless power play, for the sec...
Alhaji Ibrahim Shekarau, the former governor of Kano State, has called on the Federal Government to promote the welfare of security operatives to enable them to brace up to the challenge of insecurity ravaging Nigeria. Shekarau, who was t...
The European Union (EU) has earmarked 200 million Euros for the execution of various projects in Nigeria.The EU Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr David Mackae, made the disclosure yesterday in Port Harcourt when he visited Mr Awoye Bob-Manuel, Permanent Secret...
Children totalling 840,850 have been penciled down for the next round of polio immunisation in Gombe State. Permanent Secretary in the State Ministry of Health, Alhaji Usman Bello, disclosed this on Fridar in Gombe at the flag-off of the National Immun...
The runner-up in Thursday’s governorship primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party in Kogi State,Alhaji Abdulrazaq Isa Kutepa has called on the national secretariat of the party to do more in entrenching internal democracy, so as to strengthen de...
Peace and national security has been described as the forefront pillars of democracy for national development. This is part of goodwill message issued by the chairman of Kaduna North local government area of Kaduna State, Alhaji Ibrahim Usman (Sardauna...
Former managing director of defunct Daily Times and one of the contestants for yesterday’s primaries in Kogi State,Mr. Onukaba Adinoyi Ojo has opted out of the exercise.Addressing the media in Lokoja yesterday, the aspirant said that the de...
The Court of Appeal sitting in Jos yesterday dismissed Plateau State governor, Jonah Jang’s appeal seeking to quash the case of his challenger and Labour Party candidate, Mrs Pauline Tallen. The Plateau Electoral Petition Tribunal had, in i...
The coordinator of World Bank’s N1.4 billion contract, awarded for the construction of 132 bridges in Kaduna State, Mr Musa Tete, has said that 80 per cent the project has been done.Tete, who oversees the Rural Access and Mobility Project (RAMP) ...
The Sultan of Sokoto and the National Amirul Hajj, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar has commended the Federal Government for its continuous support and commitment to the successful execution of the annual hajj exercise. The sultan, who stated this at Nation...
United States Agency for International Development, USAID, and Management Science for Health, MSH, partner Gombe State Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Welfare, to organise a sensitisation campaign that would support communi...
The Federal Government has been tasked to pull all stops, put its security operatives on their toes and fish out the sponsors of the dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram, for prosecution.A cross section of lawyers gave the charge yesterday while speaking w...
As a Federal High court ruling restrains the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) from imposing fines on traffic offenders , the Lagos state government yesterday restated its confidence in the agency. It also said that the agency wou...
The Court of Appeal sitting in Port Harcourt yesterday asked the Rivers State election petitions tribunal to conduct fresh hearing on the petition brought before it by the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the stat...