A civil society organisation (CSO), Campaign for Democracy (CD), has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to spare nothing in his resolve to implement the Oronsaye Civil Service Reform Report to make the service productive and efficient. Mr Bako...
The police have confirmed that six persons, including a suicide bomber, died in an explosion which occurred at the Police Headquarters in Borno on Friday. A statement issued in Abuja by the Force Public Relations Officer, Mr Frank Mba, said the bomber ...
The Commissioner for Local Government in Sokoto State, Alhaji Faruk Malami, said the State Government was committed to making the 23 Local Governments to be more efficient . Malami told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the sideline of a recept...
The Nigerian Navy has confirmed that Commodore Datoru Abi-Kalio was among the 153 persons that lost their lives in Sunday’s DANA air crash at Iju-Ishaga, Lagos. In a press release issued in Lagos on Friday, the Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Adm. Ola...
Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, Joint Special Representative of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID), has tasked African leaders on the urgent need to fight poverty in the continent. Gambari said at the launch of a book in...
Justice Inumidun Akande on Saturday bowed out as Chief Judge of Lagos State with a call for the strengthening and sustenance of the independence of the judiciary. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Akande retired as Chief Judge after attaini...
Two journalists covering the council polls in Eket , Southern Akwa Ibom, were on Saturday brutalised by the Police at the Eket Office of Akwa Ibom State Independent Electoral Commission (AKISIEC) The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports tha...
Some financial experts on Saturday commended the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) over the N75 billion approved for the commencement of Nigerian Incentive-Sharing in Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) to farmers. They told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN...
Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Mohammed Umar, said the Federal Government is committed to making the Nigerian Armed Forces one the best in the world by the year 2020. He made this known in Abuja on Saturday at the end of the ``Annual 10 kil...
Deputy Inspector-General of Police Marvel Akpoyibo is in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom capital, to monitor the local government elections in the state. Akpoyibo, who is the DIG in charge of E-Department (Training) at the Police Headquarters, Abuja, addressed the ...
Some of the runway lights at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja which were out of order on Friday night have now been repaired. The Special Assistant to Princess Stella Oduah, the Minister of Aviation, Mr Joe Obi, disclosed this...
The Depot Nigerian Army, Zaria, has urged the public not to panic by its range classification exercise scheduled to hold from June 11 to June 15. This is contained in a release signed by the Army Public Relations Officer, Depot Nigerian Army, Lt...
Leader of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, Gen. MuhammaduBuhari, said yesterday that his party would soon reach an accord with the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, on how to wrestle power from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, P...
Barely one week after the fatal air crash involving Dana Air in Lagos, another air mishap was narrowly averted yesterday at the NnamdiAzikiwe Airport, Abuja when the run way lights went off, thus making it impossible for planes to either take off or la...
The spate of insecurity in parts of the north heightened yesterday with the bombing of the headquarters of the Nigeria Police Force in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, by a suicide bomber. The bomber, it was learnt, rammed into the premises in a bom...