About 1,500 clerics from over 20 countries will next week converge in Benin City, Edo State capital to address spiritually the worrisome issues relating to terrorism, kidnapping, assassinations, armed robberies and other violent crimes ravaging some pa...
The Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Dr. Paul Orhi said at the weekend that the Federal Government was concerned over the country’s dependence on foreign countries f...
The Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Igbosere, Lagos yesterday, upheld the election of Hon. Ganiyu Olukolu of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) as a member of the House of Representatives representing Amuwo-Odofin Federal Constituency.&n...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Ekiti State chapter is set to re-admit Mr Ayodele Fayose into its fold once again at the state level after the former governor said he was ready to agree to any conditions the party sets for his comeback bid. Fayose, ...
Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly have called on President Goodluck and Governor Bababtunde Fashola to erect monuments in strategic locations within the state and country in the memory of the late music legend, Fela Anikulapo Kuti. This was ...
Barely few months to the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Adamawa State, Governor Murtala Nyako, has publicly declared his intention to seek for re-election in the January 14 gubernatorial election in Adamawa, on the platform of the ruling People ...
Niger State Governor, Dr Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, has said that the state government has so far spent N3billion towards achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDGs) through the Conditional Grant Scheme (CGS) for 2008 and 2009 projects. Aliyu w...
Kogi State Chief Judge, Justice Nasiru Ajanah, has emphasized the need for leaders at all levels to submit themselves to the constitution of the country, noting that the judiciary was still subservient to the executive. Speaking at the opening of 2011/...
One person was confirmed dead while over 30 persons sustained various degrees of injuries in multiple road accidents involving over five vehicles along the Lafia-Akwanga and Lafia-Shendam roads in Nasarawa State. The first accident which happened at ab...
The House of Representatives Committee on Electoral Matters has disclosed that efforts were on to amend the section of the constitution that vests the power to appoint the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on the presiden...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) yesterday refuted claims made by the auditor-general of the federation, Samuel Orkura, that the corporation has not audited its account since inception, saying that the corporation has up-to-date audit...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday, told a Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja and presided over by Justice Donatus Okorowa that a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, standing trial on a 16...
The Akwa Ibom Police Command on Monday in Uyo presented N6 million cash rewards to the families of six police officers killed recently in gun battles with armed robbers. The families of the six deceased officers were given N1 million each in add...
Managing the exchange, inflation and interest rates are within the purview of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), and are usually determined by the fiscal behaviour of government. In this piece, STANLEY ORONSAYE examines how government’s handling ...
Some operators in the Nigerian Stock Exchange have decried the effect of the recent increase in Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) on the stock market just as the equity market in response to the development had depreciated by N152 billion five days after the ...