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The House of Representatives has raised alarm over the refusal of government revenue generating agencies to remit revenue generated to the Federation Account. Expressing concerns at a crucial meeting between the House of Representatives Committee...
Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, President of the African Business Roundtable and Chairman of NEPAD is currently vying for the position of national chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). He was Chairman of the Nigerian Ports Authority and governor...
The arrest, detention and the subsequent arraignment of four former governors by the EFCC have attracted mixed feelings among Nigerians who are of the opinion that the anti-graft agency must prosecute the cases diligently so as to restore people’...
The Catholic Bishop of Ekiti Diocese, Most Rev. Felix Femi Ajakaye, has said that the name of a former Head of State, late General Sani Abacha, will always be remembered whenever the issue of the creation of Ekiti State is being discussed. Speaking at ...
In his contribution to the debate on the proposed removal of petroleum subsidy, the Speaker of Osun State House of Assembly, Najeem Salaam, has implored the Federal Government to shelve the proposed removal of petroleum subsidy but to fix the nation&rs...
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Polytechnics (SSANIP) has said that there it will proceed on strike when its 21- day ultimatum given to the Federal Government to address various crises in the Polytechnic education expires this week. SSANIP Nat...
Palpable tension has enveloped different political camps in Katsina state, as both the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) wait anxiously for the verdict of the governorship election petitions tribunal. T...
Indigenes of Kebbi State under the auspices of Kebbi Awareness Forum (KAF) has called on the Kebbi State House of Assembly to probe an alleged mismanagement of the joint account operated by the state government and its 21 Local government a...
Bauchi State first female Professor of Micro-Biology, Prof. Fatima Jafar Tahir, has urged husbands to support their wives in furthering their education to enable them contribute immensely to the development of the society. Tahir, who made the app...
As the allegation of certificate forgery made against Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State by the gubernatorial candidate of All Nigerian Peoples Party, Professor Daniel Saror, continues to generate controversies in the state, the Coalition for Good ...
Governor Umaru Tanko Al-makura, of Nasarawa State, some hours, after addressing the people of the state on the impending security situation, yesterday Sunday, personally took time visiting some churches to see things for himself. The governor’s a...
Ahead of the governorship poll slated for December 3, 2011, women in Kogi State have started mobilising support for the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) governorship candidate, Chief James Ocholi. The coordinator of Kogi Women for Ocholi and state...
Palm reading also known as chiromancy is one of the many pseudo-sciences (a method that tries to explain physical phenomena without scientific proof to back it up). It is an art of foretelling that uses the hand lines as well as the palm’s markin...
Six people were killed on Sunday in Oke Afo, near Badagry, Lagos State, when a car driven by a Customs officer veered off the Lagos-Badagry Expressway. FRSC Assistant Road Commander Hussein Haruna told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the d...
The Gombe State Commissioner of Police, Mr Orubebe Ebikeme, has confirmed the bombing of the Mobile Police base in Kwame, in Kwame local government area, on Sunday killing no fewer than three persons. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) repor...