Politics

The Assistant Corps Marshal in-charge of Zone Seven of the FRSC, Augustine Aipoh, said on Friday that the commission was relaxing its compulsory acquisition of fire extinguishers by motorists.  Aipoh, who spoke at an interactive session with journ...

Children in Kaduna have now turned some of the streets in the metropolis to football pitches because of the curfew in the area. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the children, whose ages range from seven to 15, are seen in parts of the metr...

The INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, said on Thursday that some politicians were still unhappy with the conduct of 2011 elections in spite of the improvements recorded in the electoral system. Jega said such politicians expected&nbsp...

Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) says it has restored electricity to Iju-Ishaga area of Lagos where a Dana plane crashed. Mr Gabriel Ezeokoli, PHCN Business Manager in Abule-Egba, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria  &nb...

Justice Abdul Kafarati, a Judge of the Federal High Court, on Thursday in Abuja threatened to discharge the 24 suspected Boko Haram members standing trial before the court. The judge, who granted the police a last adjournment for Sept. 18, said that ...

The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Prof. Attahiru Jega, said on Thursday in Abuja that more of the moribund political parties would be re-registered. Jega told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)  that INEC want...

Three regional organisations have signed landmark agreements to co-operate on practical steps to deal with the effects of climate change and to promote sustainable development at a Commonwealth event at the Rio+20 Earth Conference. The two memoranda o...

The People of Zaria in Kaduna State have expressed concern over blackout in the last three days when some suicide bombers attacked the state. A cross section of people, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Zaria on Wednesday expressed reg...

The Plateau Government has introduced a dress code for the state's civil servants to guard against what it termed ``improper and immodest” dressing at work places. The government also threatened to sanction workers who failed to comply with t...

Gov. Rauf Aregbesola of Osun has called on governors in the South West Zone to pool their resources together to provide regional aerial surveillance in order to check incursion into the region. Aregbesola made the call in Ibadan  while delivering ...

Gov. Idris Wada of Kogi on Wednesday launched the direct sale of kerosene at N50 per litre to the people of the state. Wada said at Felele, a suburb of Lokoja that the move was to end the harrowing experience the people go through to get the product. H...

The House of Representatives was in the news all through last week, having found itself in yet another bribery scandal, this time involving oil marketer, Mr Femi Otedola and the man who was in the news in the last few months for successfully probing th...

Halilu Ibrahim Dantiye mni, a pioneer staff and former Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Triumph Publishing Company and the former Secretary General and National President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors, is currently the Director of Public Affairs and Strate...

Senator Dahiru Awaisu Kuta (PDP, Niger) is the Chairman Senate Committee on Federal Character. In this interview with UCHENNA AWOM he laments the lopsidedness in the staff structure of some federal institutions and said Nigerians can enforce their righ...

For the past one year, the Senatorial slot of Anambra North has been vacant. Chibuzo Ukaibe, in this report, looks at the legal scuffle that has created this awkward situation. The Anambra North Senatorial seat has been vacant, since the commencement o...