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Governorship candidate of Congress for Progressive Change,CPC, in Kogi State, Chief James Ocholi, SAN has promised to transform Lokoja, into a befitting State capital if elected in next month’s governorship poll. Addressing party supporters in Lo...
Benue State Governor Gabriel Suswam has said that no act of provocation will deter his commitment to improve on the lives of the people of the State. Suswam, who clocked 47 on Tuesday, said that he would embark on live changing projects in a rene...
The governorship candidate of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN in Kogi State, Prince Abubakar Audu, has urged the people to prevent rigging and protect their votes in the forthcoming governorship election in the State. He gave this charge in an intervie...
A Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday stopped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from holding the Bayelsa State governorship primary election slated for Saturday, November 19, to pick its candidate for the state governorship election in 2012.
Members of the National Assembly yesterday pointedly told President Goodluck Jonathan, at a meeting in the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, to forget anything to do with removal of the contentious subsidy on petroleum products. The lawmakers adv...
Following reports yesterday of a court order asking the nationalised banks to quit operations, the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Central Bank have assured customers of the banks that their deposits are safe, while maintaining that...
It is only a matter of days before the entire country is thrown into total darkness, following a strike embarked upon by workers in the nation’s power sector. Already, most states of the federation have been thrown into darkness just as access to...
A Bill that sought to amend the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) Act, to compel the Federal Government to distribute certain taxes and duties collected by the (FIRS) to the states, yesterday threw the House into a rowdy session as it had to be sto...
Indications emerged yesterday that since the return of democracy in 1999, the National Assembly, which serves as the assembly for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has not passed any of the FCT Bills sent to it into law.The development came just as i...
The Director-General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig. Gen. Nnamdi Okore-Affia has appealed to the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) to consider the immediate relocation of the NYSC Orientation Camp in Kubwa, Bwari Area Council ...
The Chairman of Kuje Area Council, Mr. Danladi Zhin has been nominated for an award, ‘Ambassador for Free and Fair Election’ by a non-governmental organisation (NGO), Alliance for Credible Election in West AfricaThe Secretary-general of the...
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Star actress Kate Henshaw Nuttal, and her better half of 12 years, Roderick James Nuttal are no longer together. The award-winning Nigerian actress and her British husband parted ways amicably a few months back following ‘irreconcilable di...
Chairman, Move Nigeria Project and the Benue Elders Forum, Dr. Godwin Dabo Adzuana, has warned former minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Nasir el-Rufai, to stop inciting rebellion among the populace against the presidency. Spe...
Increasing use of the contraceptive pill is being linked with the rise of prostate cancer in men. Researchers say the Pill has soared in popularity over the past 40 years, and at the same time prostate cancer has become the most common fo...