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The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has given an order for the arrest of more than 3,125 motorists for various traffic offences in the city within two months. A statement issued in Abuja on Monday said the FCT Minister, Sen. Bala ...
The arraignment of six dismissed police officers who allegedly murdered one Gabriel Rabo (an armed robbery suspect) yesterday failed to hold due to the absence of three of the accused persons who were reportedly sick and hospitalized. According to the ...
Zamfara State government is looking inwards for considering ways of diversifying its economic potentials in an effort to foster a sustainable and self-reliant economy. The decision was motivated by the discovery of variety of huge deposits of mineral r...
Statistic has showed that in 10 out of the 19 northern states of the country, each year the desert advances another 600 metres further south. Indeed, Kano, Katsina, Zamfara, Sokoto, Borno and Yobe are among the worst hit states. Scores of farmers and t...
State governor, Hajiya Fatima Shema, yesterday launched the sales of grains at subsidized prices to women in the state. Speaking at the launch which was witnessed by women from different strata in the state, Mrs Shema said the measure was aimed at miti...
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, will today launch a new official website of the State designed to set a robust integrated multimedia digital media channels- online, social media and mobile media. In a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to t...
Dereck Chisora has been suspended indefinitely by the World Boxing Council for his behaviour before and after his fight with Vitali Klitschko. British heavyweight Chisora was involved in a brawl with countryman David Haye at the news confe...
The Ministry of Water Resources says it has put in place water sector roadmap in line with the transformation agenda of the Federal government. Specifically,the roadmap was meant to ensure that water reaches all communities in the country,and that wome...
The Supreme Court yesterday adjourned till May 25 judgement in an appeal by a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abia State, Chief Ikechi Emenike, against Governor Theodore Orji also of the PDP. Emenike had asked the apex court to set a...
The former Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, yesterday, reacted to the confiscation of his properties by the Ogun State Government and said the action was an assault on the rule of law. Daniel in a statement issued in Abeokuta and signed by...
The Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Ekiti State, Mr. Dayo Adelaja yesterday advised the former governor of Ekiti State, Mr Segun Oni and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) not to challenge at the Supreme Court the ruling of a Court of Appe...
The lawmaker representing Gwarzo/kabo federal constituency of Kano State in the House of Representatives, Hon. Sule Garo, has congratulated the state governor, Dr. Rabiu Kwankwaso, for his victory at the Supreme Court which yesterday dismissed th...
The Supreme Court, in two separate judgments yesterday, upheld the elections of Governors Babangida Aliyu of Niger State and Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso of Kano State both of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). While delivering the lead judgment on the...
The reconstituted Elections Petition Tribunal sitting in Makurdi, Benue State yesterday, dismissed the petition filed by the governorship candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Prof. Steven Ugba challenging the election of Governor Gabriel ...
The Governor of Niger State, Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, has described the verdict of the Supreme Court that yesterday upheld his victory at the April 2011 governorship election as a confirmation that his administration got the mandat...