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Top United Nations officials have argued in favour of better protection for journalists as well as greater efforts to ensure that those who kill or intimidate them are brought to justice. This was even as they stressed that freedom of the press is a ba...
“We have set up templates for partnership with local and international business”, he saysLagos State governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, Tuesday, canvassed for closer economic integration between the City of Lagos and the City of London, sayin...
The vice-president, Alhaji Namadi Sambo has challenged political office holders to always exhibit the virtues of good governance for them to be positively remembered and honoured. He said this Tuesday night at a dinner reception organised in hono...
Kwara Governorship Election Petition Tribunal judges and lawyers listened in disbelief as a PDP ward collation agent for Shinawu/Tunbuyal Ward in Baruten Local Government, Halidu Sulayman, confessed that neither he nor any other parties’ ag...
Scores of Northern Nigerian youths leaders met in Kaduna yesterday and slammed President Goodluck Jonathan’s Special Adviser on Value and Ethics, Mrs. Sarah Jubril for attributing insecurity in the country to Northerners. The North, accordi...
Stakeholders of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Gombe have denied allegation that the State Governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo is on a mission to eliminate the PDP in the state and replace it with All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP. ...
The Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Makurdi will today begin trial of the case between the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate, Governor Gabriel Suswam and the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Prof. Steven Ugba . Ugba had petit...
The Ministry of Transport has clarified its stance on the alleged media report about a purported 34.8bn scam that was said to have rocked the ministry over the dredging of River Niger In a rejoinder signed by the Director of Press of the m...
President Goodluck Jonathan has said that the royal fathers in Adamawa State helped him and his party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to victory in the just-concluded 2011 general elections. “We could not have won in Adamawa if you and you...
In response to allegations that Single Window System Technology Limited (SWST) presented falsified document to register with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), the federal government has placed a temporary ban on dealings with the company. ...
Benue State Governor Gabriel Suswam has implored the Smithsonian National Museum of African Arts to explore how the history of Central Nigeria can be “unmasked” through the dynamic interrelationship of its peoples and their arts. The govern...
A socio-political group in Ekiti State, the Ekiti Positive Forum (EPF) has appealed to the National Universities’ Commission (NUC) to grant approval to the Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti (EKSU), formerly University of Ado-Ekiti (UNAD). The for...
Running the bicameral legislature in Nigeria is very expensive. Since 1999, the running cost of the National Assembly and the states houses of assemblies have been rising to intolerable level with Nigerians crying blue murder. After succumbing to press...
Four weeks into the commencement of the industrial action in Osun State, SEFIU AYABIMPE writes on the ongoing feud between the government and the organised labour in the state as workers have vowed not to call off the strike unless the state government...
The people of Enugu State are looking forward to the outcome of the local government elections holding in December this year. Enugu Correspondent, Nnamdi Mbawike who has been monitoring events in the state concludes that only the anointed candidates of...