As the new Lagos State Road Traffic Law takes effect, GEORGE OKOJIE writes that Lagosians are divided over the aptness or otherwise of some of its provisions: The Lagos traffic gridlock is like no other in the world for a variety of reasons, chiefly th...
Although it is a community largely made up of peasants, Dan Marke village is not exactly in the middle of nowhere. In fact, it is just a few kilometres away from Gusau, the Zamfara state capital, albeit withinRawayya District of Gusau local government....
Alhaji Musa Mayaki is the acting director-general, Nigeria Television Authority (NTA). In this exclusive interview with EMMA OKEREH and DAVID ADUGE-ANI he proffered reasons for the poor coverage NTA gave the Dana plane crash. He also spoke on his achie...
Chairman, Northern Governors Forum (NGF) and Governor of Niger State, Muazu Babangida Aliyu, has said that the NGF cannot be intimidated over its position on the Petroleum Industries Bill (PIB) and agitation for the creation of state police. Aliyu, who...
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Oyo State has challenged the former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo to a public debate, between him and the former governor of the state, Alhaji Lam Adesina, on who is the most incorruptible, relevant to his i...
The Kogi State commissioner of police, Mr. Muhammadu Katsina, has disclosed that there are over 1,000 AK47 rifles in Okene and its environs. Katsina, who made this known while speaking with journalists in his office in Lokoja yesterday, however, said t...
As President Goodluck Jonathan prepares to visit Anambra State to accede to the state government’s request for the unveiling of the Niger Bridgehead through Upper Iweka Motor Park as Odumegwu Ojukwu Way, stakeholders in the state have maintained ...
National Association of Nigeria Students (NANS) has called on the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to urge striking workers of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) to resume dialogue with the Federal Government. In a statement yesterday by its Nati...
Former acting Managing Director/Chief Executive Director, Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Pastor P. Z. Aginighan, has condemned the recent threat by the House of Representatives to impeach President Goodluck Jonathan over budget implementati...
Following the gruesome murder of Miss Cynthia Osokogu, a post graduate student of Nasarawa State University and daughter of a retired general, the police in Lagos have nabbed two pharmacists. Cynthia’s killers, who were said to be her Facebook fr...
The federal government has told the people of Bakassi who have been threatening secession from Nigeria and Cameroon to obey the laws of their new government, Cameroon. In a statement issued yesterday by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and s...
The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has denied reports in the media that it deployed a total of 1, 000 officers to man the nation’s capital during the last Sallah celebration, saying that 1, 000 officers could not have been enough to sec...
To prove the sincerity of the President Goodluck Jonathan administration and its claim of zero tolerance for corruption, the supreme head of Cherubim and Seraphim Church of Nigeria and Overseas, Prophet Solomon Adegboyega Alao, has recommended death pe...
Some experts have expressed mixed reactions to plans by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to introduce N5,000 note in 2013. They expressed their views in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Friday. An e...
The 5th Edition of the Nigeria Broadcasting Code was on Friday in Abuja formally presented to operators and other stakeholders in the industry. The code was unveiled at a ceremony, which also coincided with the 20th anniversary celebration of the Niger...