The chairman of the Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC), Ambassador Ahmed Al-Gazali has observed among others that the problem limiting the nation’s development and tendency of realising Vision 202020 is the poor quality of service delivery i...
The Imo State government, in partnership with KWAKAF, is to train 60 Imo State indigenes in higher institutions on a six-month internship programme in the Centre for Energy and Environment Engineering, University of Maryland, United States. Spea...
To aid easy access to health care in rural communities, especially as it concerns curbing the upsurge in maternal mortality, the federal government has initiated a midwifery scheme.Records available indicate that women and children in rural...
The Middle Belt Youth Democratic Forum(MBYDF) has said the emergence of Chief Henry Ojuola, a member of Kogi State House of Assembly as running mate to Prince Abubakar Audu has brightened the chances of the Action Congress of Nigeria(ACN) to win the fo...
President Goodluck Jonathan and other leaders who are meeting in Perth, Australia for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) have agreed to a series of reforms to strengthen the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) in dealing with...
Nigeria’s beach volleyball men team A and B, yesterday brightened their chances of playing at the 2012 London Olympic Games with a two straight set defeat of their Burundian counterpart in the opening match of the zonal phase in round two of the ...
President Goodluck Jonathan failed to show upAustralia when as hefailed to appear for two scheduled speeches at the business side of the on going Commonwealth Head of Governments Meeting (CHOGM). No explanation was given for his absence by the Ni...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday said that the door to the central store of its Lagos office where some Direct Data Capture (DDC) machines and other items got missing was not broken. Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman,...
A Deltan- Abia employee, Olisa (Surname withheld) has reportedly died of heart-attack, aftermath of the controversial Abia State government’s decision to sack workers who are not from the State. Olisa, re...
It was a harvest of hoodlums in Benin City as the Edo State Police command yesterday paraded two suspects in connection with the kidnap and murder of popular Benin musician, Bayo Ade. The two suspects, Chinedu Ihieme (24) and Dickson Iyamu Edamwe...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Uyo Branch, has condemned the move by a group of legislators to abolish the post-UTME screening test. This was made known to newsmen by its Chairman, Mr Nwachukwu Anyim, at the ...
In a bid to reduce prison congestion to the barest minimum, the comptroller of Nigeria Prisons Service (NPS), FCT command, Mr. Luka Dapaku has appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan and other relevant authorities in the country, to extend its amnesty ...
Kebbi State Governor, Alhaji Saidu Dakingari, and the state House of Assembly are heading for a show down over the appointment of special advisers to the governor.The governor had sent a list of 57 special advisers to the Assembly for a resolutio...
Secretary to the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC), Mr. Elvis Oglafa, has identified funds shortage and lack of adequate manpower as the two major constraints hindering the ICPC and other sister agencies in the fight against c...
A former member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Umar Uba, has accused the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, of refusing to comply with a valid court order that declared him the elected to the House to represent Yauri/S...