Politics

President Goodluck Jonathan has described the death of Oba Oladele Olasore of Iloko Ijesha in Osun as “a great national loss”. In a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity,  Dr Reuben Abati, on Sunday i...

Some Lagos-based lawyers have urged the Federal Government not to allow the re-branding policy, introduced by erstwhile Minister of Information, Prof. Dora Akunyili, to be abandoned. The lawyers, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunda...

Ambassador Olugbenga Ashiru, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, has hailed the House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora, saying it has a great role to play in Nigeria’s foreign relations. Receiving the committee members, led by the chairperso...

V?ce-Pres?dent Namad? Sambo has urged Luxemburg to take advantage of the numerous opportunities in Nigeria to invest in the country. A statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media, Umar Sani, said Sambo made the call at a...

The first stanza of the post-election legal tussle between the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Kogi State was concluded on May 17 with the former gaining an upper hand. The Justice Suleiman Anbursa-led ...

The people of Nasarawa State will on May 29, 2012, roll out drums to celebrate the first year anniversary of the administration of Governor Umaru Tanko Al-Makura with grandiose and pomp having voted the candidate of their choice in the April 2011 gener...

Ahead of next month’s governorship election in Edo state, the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), has given conditions the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) should meet before corps members are released to serve as ad-hoc staff du...

The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) caucus in the Kaduna State House of Assembly has called on Governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa to utilise his wealth of experience and speed up developmental projects that would have a direct bearing on the lives o...

Imo State chairman of the National Union of Local Government Employee (NULGE), Chief K.I Onuoha, has faulted the style of leadership adopted by the state governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha. Onuoha stated that the governor’s style of leadership was ...

Following media reports that he canvassed votes for incumbent Edo Governor Adams Oshiomhole, former Governor of Edo State, Professor Oserheimen Osunbor, has refuted some of the comments ascribed to him, just as he maintained that the performance of Osh...

The Chairman Niger State Action Congress of Nigeria ( ACN ),Captain Abubakar Isah Mokwa has said that the planned merger between the party and Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), was the only way  the needed change within the nation’s pol...

A former Ambassador of the United States to Nigeria who is also a notable critic of the Jonathan-led administration, Ambassador John Campbell has said that Oil Subsidy in Nigeria became very popular because it is the only means by which most Nigerians ...

Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, PDP National Chairman has urged  members of the party to work collectively to find solution to the country’s challenges instead of lamenting on issues. Tukur spoke  on Wednesday in Abuja at the inauguration of a 50...

Sen. Walid Jubril, the PDP Board of Trustee (BOT) Secretary, says campaign for the country's president in 2015 ``is too early and diversionary.’’ He told newsmen on Wednesday in Abuja that Nigerians would determine the country`s preside...

Alhaji Inuwa Garba, the Speaker, Gombe State House of Assembly, said on Wednesday that the House had passed 23 bills. The speaker, who is also the Chairman, Conference of Speakers of Nigeria, said this in Gombe in an interview with newsmen. ``From the ...