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‘The times they are a-changing!’ Really? Remember the old Bob Dylan song? Well, that is exactly what has happened last weekend in the southern German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg. In what must be a historic turning point, the German Green Party is the winner of regional elections, and Winfried Kretschmann thus becomes the first Green Minister-President in Germany. This victory, which…
As the deadline for campaign by political parties contesting the April elections draws nearer, most of the presidential candidates are yet to campaign for votes in Cross River State. Apart from President Goodluck Jonathan has held a rally in the state, others like: Ibrahim Shekarau of the ANPP, Mohammadu Buhari of the CPC, Pat Utomi of the SDMP, Chris Okotie…
The Ekiti State government yesterday approved the promotion of civil servants who are due for promotion with effect from January 2010. The government has also appealed to labour unions for more understanding on the issue of pay relativity, saying what it receives from the Federation Account and Internally Generated Revenue are too meagre to accommodate the pay rise being demanded.…
Osita Okechukwu, the governorship candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), has said that zoning guarantees the Igbo ethnic group will produce a President in 2015. Addressing polling agents of his party on Monday at Amechi Awkunanaw, an Enugu suburb, Mr Okechukwu said``Zoning is the best for the country under the political scenario we have found ourselves. ``It offers…
A Non Governmental Organisation (NGO), Women and Children Alive (WCA), has appealed to women to vote for their fellow women vying for various political offices in the April general elections. Victoria Balogun, the Executive Director of WCA, made the appeal while speaking at a rally for potential voters in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, on Monday. Mrs Balogun said a vote for…
The Director of the National Orientation Agency (NOA) in Gombe State, Ado Solomon has urged physically-challenged persons to use the April polls to elect people who will be ready to solve their problems. Mr Solomon, who addressed the physically-challenged persons in Gombe on Sunday as part of NOA’s sensitisation, said they should endeavour to use their votes to bring a…
Angered by her inability to clinch its Edo South senatorial ticket during the recent primary election, a frontline member of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Mercy Obamogie has formerly pulled out of the party. In her resignation letter, which was made available to NEXT, Mrs. Obamogie accused the leadership of the party in Edo State of hijacking and manipulating…
The minister of Education, Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufa'i at the weekend in Ado-Ekiti said the Federal Government has mandated the Petroleum Trust Development Fund (PTDF), the Education Trust fund (ETF) and other agencies to commence aggressive training of staff with relevant skills, particularly in the areas of science, technology and engineering. The Minister, who spoke at the 15th convocation of the…
Close to 2,000 women are living with Vesico-Vaginal Fistula (VVF) disease in Bauchi State, the Medical Officer of the Ningi General Hospital, Mansur Dada, said in Bauchi at the weekend. Mr.Dada, who briefed journalists who visited the newly established VVF repairs and treatment centre at the hospital, said while some of the patients had made efforts to seek medication, others…
Governor Bukola Saraki of Kwara State has advised labour unions to desist from issuing threats to state governments over the new minimum wage. Mr.Saraki said this in Ilorin on Saturday that such threats were unnecessary as the President had yet to sign the bill into law. However, he said that every state would pay the new minimum wage as soon…
The Edo State governor, Adams Oshiomhole has taken the campaign of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) to traders in markets in Benin city, the state capital. The governor who led the campaign train to the Oliha market, Eyaen cattle market, Ahor Cattle market, Aduwawa market, New Benin market, Agbado market and Uselu market at the weekend, urged the traders…
The People's Mandate Party (PMP) and its presidential candidate, Batos Nwadike have condemned Mr Nwadike's exclusion from the presidential debate being organised by the Nigerian Election Debate Group (NEDG). Speaking in Abuja yesterday, the spokesperson of the Batos Nwadike Presidential Campaign Organisation, Esanerovo Agbodo said the exclusion from the debate is a ploy to kill the ambition of smaller political…
The Commission of Inquiry into Witchcraft and Child Abuse in Akwa Ibom State has concluded plans to travel to London, United Kingdom (UK). The commission plans to meet with the Programme Director of a British registered charity, the Stepping Stones Nigeria (SSN), Gary Foxcroft, to get his testimonies over his organisation’s activities with the children of the state. The commission…
The Plateau State Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Resident Commissioner, Habu Zarma, said on Thursday that the Commission Is “fully ready” to conduct the April general elections. Mr Zarma, who stated this on Thursday at the Jos Civil Society and Media Roundtable on the April Elections, said all necessary arrangements for the conduct of the elections have been put in…
The Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) has expressed worry over the activities of land speculators who are encroaching on its property. “The corporation is also worried that the Enugu State Government and agencies collude to encroach on NRC property,” the NRC District Manager, East, Paul Ndibe, said. Mr Ndibe told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu on Thursday that…