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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kaduna State yesterday dismissed the criticisms heaped on the state governor, Mr Patrick Yakowa, by the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) for offering free feeding to fasting Muslim faithful, decribing it as false a...
Government workers in Akwa Ibom have put on hold their planned strike action slated for today over disagreement with the state government on the payment of the N18,000 minimum wage. The state chairman of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) Comrade Uyinm...
When the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) met with the countries security chiefs yesterday, the commission pushed for a review of the security preparations which were put in place during the elections with a view to improving on perform...
The Peoples Progressive Alliance (PPA) has thrown its weight behind the six-year single tenure being proposed by President Goodluck Jonathan. The chairman of the party, Chief Sam Nkire, who stated this at the special National Executive Committee (NEC) ...
Ekiti State Governor Kayode Feyemi has appealed to the Federal Government to assist the state in finding lasting solution to the menace of gully erosion and other ecological problems facing the area. He made the call yesterday in Abuja when he paid a c...
Kaduna State Governor, Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa yesterday hosted former governors of the state, Alhaji Mohammed Makarfi, Alhaji Lawan Kaita, Col Umar Farouk Ahmed (rtd) and Alhaji Usman Faruk, former military governor of North-West from 1967-1975. Others...
The Nigerian government and its counterpart In Niger Republic are collaborating in a bilateral security partnership to curb Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria, and the terrorism acts of Al-Qaida in Niger Republic. This and many other resolutions were rea...
Corruption no doubt is one of the major problems bedeviling our nation. In fact, it’s a cankerworm that has eaten deep into the fabric of our national lives. It has retarded our developmental and transformational agenda and has dented our image i...
The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) and the Oyo State Government have signed the 2011-2012 Multiyear Programme Implementation Agreement. At the signing ceremony in Ibadan, the governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, promised to deliver sound and instit...
Federal Government and the organised labour will tomorrow conclude and sign an agreement on the implementation of the N18000 national minimum wage, a reliable source told LEADERSHIP yesterday. The agreement which was supposed to have been signed yester...
No fewer than 11 candidates from the North East zone are in the race for the national chairmanship of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). This follows the release of the guideline for congresses and national convention of the party. This is just...
Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday told the president of Niger Republic, Mahamadou Issoufou, that the sub-region would not accept a coup in that country. Jonathan, who was reacting ...
The federal government has tasked all permanent secretaries, directors and other management staff of civil service to step up their efforts in building capacity of its entire workforce on effective application of Information Communication Technology (I...
The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is presently awaiting the clearance of the national headquarters of the party to determine whether or not to participate in the forthcoming local government elections in the state scheduled ...
The police yesterday detonated a bomb at Unguwan Ngas in Yelwa, Bauchi Metropolis said to have been planted near a gutter in the area. A resident of the area, who pleaded anonymity, said that ‘’ I saw the bomb at about 6.am near the area wh...