Former Governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, had staged a comeback to his former party, the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), following a formal declaration in Sokoto yesterday. Bafarawa, a two-term governor on the platform of the A...
The protest by residents of the Lekki-Epe expressway to resist the introduction of toll by the Lagos State Government in conjunction with the Lekki Concession Company, concessionaires of the road may continue today even as Lagos State Governor Babatund...
Kaduna State government yesterday broke its silence over the alleged spending of N300 million weekly on security maintenance which has caused controversy in the state. The government said, “though government has been spending a lot on ensuring se...
The Christian Health Association Of Nigeria(CHAN), has revealed that the dreaded HIV/AIDS claims more than 2,000 lives of the total population of the country. This was disclosed by the director of Advocacy of the group, Pastor David Omorebokhae, ...
The first lady and wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, has declared that the history of Nigeria would never be complete without the late leader of secessionist Biafra Republic, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. Mrs. Jonathan, who stated this ...
Governor Adams Oshiomhole has called on civil society groups to be vigilant, because the opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has perfecting plans to rig the 2012 guber election. Speaking at a reception organised for him in Benin City b...
Bayelsa State Governor, Chief Timipre Sylva, over the weekend, appointed new aides in the wake of the unceremonious resignation of some political appointees from his administration. The resignation and appointement were a follow up to his battle with t...
Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has set up a seven-member committee to try some of its members, including former Deputy National Chairman of the party, Chief Olabode George, for anti-party activities. At statement from the par...
Pharm. Ahmed Tijjani Mora, Registrar/Chief Executive Officer, Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN), explains in this interview with WINIFRED OGBEBO that Nigerian pharmacists are as capable as their foreign counterparts and that they produce 40 pe...
Nollywood certainly can boast of personalities. At the inception of an infantile industry when no hope was available and people doubted any glimmer of development, men like Richard Mofe Damijo stepped in and held high the mantle of pragmatism with conf...
The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) yesterday stated that the Nigerian people would not be deterred by the provision of hefty security vote in its determination to resist oppression. Also, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) would be meeting tomorr...
The police in Kano yesterday uncovered a site where suspected Boko Haram disciples manufacture bombs, just as the dreaded sect is making efforts to shift its operational base to the ancient city. The locally manufactured bombs, according to the police,...
United States President Barack Obama who relied heavily on the social media to boost his presidential campaign in 2008, has banned his daughters from using Facebook, a United Kingdom (UK’s) Mail Online reports. The ‘First Social Media Presi...
The Kaduna State Police Command has called on the people of the state to disregard “rumours” going round that the members of the Boko Haram Islamic sect are planning to unleash attack on nine communities in Kaduna, the state capital. Indica...
Edo State governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has asked his erstwhile trade union colleagues to have a rethink of their current opposition to the power sector reform and adopt a strategy that will benefit workers of PHCN and the nation at large. The go...