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President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday co-opted leading business mogul, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, and four others into the economic management team.The team which held its inaugural meeting at the Presidential Villa, has the following as the other new membe...
All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) has slammed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over deregistration of seven political parties in the country.According to a statement signed by the national chairman of the ANPP, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, sta...
The Borno State Police Command said it has arrested a man suspected to be supplying chemicals to the Islamist sect popularly known as the Boko Haram.The state’s commissioner of Police, Mr Simeon Midenda, made the announcement at a news conference...
The former Military President, Gen. Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida has been described as the biggest beneficiary of the loyalty of the late former Military Vice President, Admiral Augustus Aikhomu. Aikhomu, who served under IBB between 1986 and 1993, died ...
A Non Governmental Organisation in Ekiti State, the Ekiti Justice Group (EJG) has urged Governor Kayode Fayemi to be guided by the overriding interest of the state, not partisan politics in handling the ongoing Airport Project being executed in the Sta...
It is simply a battle of ex-directors-general of the beleaguered Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) as Dr. Julius Bala, a former D-G yesterday warned his predecessor, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, to desist from further smearing his reputation or face court ac...
The Ekiti State government has imposed a levy of N5 million registration fee on private universities operating in the state which is renewable with N750, 000 annually. Besides, intending owners of private polytechnics and colleges of education are to p...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday threatened to embark on strike over some state governors who have insisted that they cannot implement the National Minimum Wage in their states. NLC President Abdulwahed Omar, who briefed journalists after th...
The federal government yesterday. Asked Ukraine government to take it easy with Nigeria following the Kidnapping of its national, saying at “a higher level, they do also know that in any country such a thing can happen”. “ They know a...
The Joint Military Task Force (JTF) has seized a vessel loaded with illegal crude along the River Nun in the high sea of Brass Local Government of Bayelsa State. Twelve persons including a woman were arrested for their involvement in the illegal liftin...
The Federal Road Safety Commission, Osun Sector Command, has sold 33 motorcycles and three vehicles impounded by the command through public auction.The Command’s Head of Operations, Mr Michael Olapade, made this known yesterday in an interview wi...
Federal Government yesterday expressed its optimism that the recommendations by the Presidential committee on the Security Challenges in North-east would address the Boko Haram matter satisfactorily. Speaking shortly after the eight-man committee submi...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday inaugurated his economic team and admonished its members to pay attention to the nation’s growth. The team, according to him, must work with vice president Namadi Sambo and himself “to bring about such ...
The family of John Mikel Obi has denied the widespread reports that the abductors of the Chelsea of England star father contacted them to pay the sum of N20m as ransom for the release of the Obi senior. Elder brother of the midfield maestro, Tony Obi, ...
The Nigeria national basketball team, D’Tigers has commenced their quest for a place at next year’s summer Olympics to be held in London. On Wednesday, the team started on a bright note by defeating first opponents Mali, 59-84 points. The e...