The Federal Executive Council last week approved a memo from the Ministry of Science and Technology to set up a National Science Research Technology and Innovation Fund for the development of science and technology in Nigeria. Minister of Science and T...
Two communities in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State, Amagba and Evbukhu are currently at war over a piece of land located at the boundary between both communities. No lives have been lost in the dispute but properties worth millions of naira ha...
The Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, Dr. John Onaiyekan has urged Islamic leaders in the Country to assist the Federal Government in tackling the Boko Haram menace in the Country. The Catholic leader made the call at a press briefing at his residence yest...
The United Nations has expressed fears over the security challenges facing Nigeria. This was disclosed during a parley between President Goodluck Jonathan and the United Nations Secretary-General in Addis Ababa. The duo of Jonathan and Ban ...
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has said that the federal government-ordered audit of all government institutions in the oil and gas sector, as well as the solid minerals resources sector, is programmed to fail. The party noted that the government...
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Dahiru Musdapher yesterday said contrary to speculations in some national dailies that 25 out of the 29 members of the Judicial Reform Committee comprising signed the report of the committee...
Twenty Local government council chairmen in Niger state have stayed away from public hearing organised by the state House of Assembly for a bill to amend the 2001 local government law in the state. LEADERSHIP observed that the absence of the chairmen w...
The reconstituted Benue State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal, yesterday, ordered the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and its governorship candidate, Prof. Steven Ugba to bring back the exhibits which were released to them by the secretary of...
Niger State Governor Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu has called on residents of the State not to panic over any rumoured attack by any group, even as he said that the presence of soldiers on the street helping to curb crises was not good for the country. ...
Plateau State Governor, Jonah Jang has said that the State provided the fund used for prospecting petroleum in the Niger-Delta region in the 1960s. Governor Jang who stated this while receiving the Presidential Youth Committee on Deregulation of ...
Oil multinational, Chevron Nigeria Limited, yesterday, intensified its lobby of host communities in the Brass and Southern Ijaw Communities of Bayelsa State as they protest against the noticeable damages on their environment by the recent fire outbreak...
The Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) has fixed February 9 for the trial of former Kano State Governor Ibrahim Shekarau and some other public officers who are being accused of f...
Maryam Abubakar, the wife of the acting Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, is dead. She died on Monday morning, after a brief illness at a hospital in Kano. She was buried according to Muslim rites this afternoon.
Kogi State Acting Governor, Hon. Abdullahi Bello on Monday, sacked the cabinet he inherited from the immediate past governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris. In a statement issued through his Special Assistant on Media, Alhaji Ibrahim Isa Amoka, the acting gover...
Terror suspect, Henry Okah, already jailed more than a year will remain in jail another eight months before his trial starts in South Africa, a judge ruled Monday. Henry Okah’s trial had been scheduled to start Monday. Instead of starting their a...