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Professor Sola Adeyeye is one of the progressive lawmakers of the current political dispensation in the upper chamber of National Assembly representing Osun Central Senatorial District of Osun State on the platform of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN). ...
The Nigerian Air Force is to embark on joint defence venture programme with local and foreign corporations to attract more economic prosperity to itself and the country. This is contained in a communiqué issued at the end of a seminar titled ``Effecti...
Mr Bulus Dabit, the General Manager, Plateau Radio Television Corporation (PRTVC), says leaders’ attitude of abandoning the electorate, immediately after election, is responsible for the general apathy to voting. Dabit, who made the observation i...
The controversies from Members of the National Assembly over the proposal to establish the Nigerian Diaspora Commission and to ensure Diaspora Voting Rights for Nigerians living abroad may have been laid to rest as officials used the just concluded ann...
Sen. Sahabi Ya’u, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Land Transport, said on Sunday that the Western Rail Line would be fully operational before the end of the year. The rail line is expected to connect Lagos, Ibadan, Jebba and Kaduna to Kano, whi...
The House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts has decried inadequate funding of the office of the Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF). Chairman of the committee, Rep. Solomon Adeola (ACN-Lagos), said in Abuja on Sunday that corruptio...
The former presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Prof. Peter Nwangwu, says the Immunity Clause in the 1999 Constitution should be removed because ``it has done more harm than good''. Nwangwu told the News Agency of Ni...
Benue State Governor Gabriel Suswam yesterday submitted 23 names of Local Government Caretaker committee chairmen to the Benue State House of Assembly for screening. The 23 local government chairmen, five of which have retained their former positions, ...
In African folklore, countless myths are surely evoked at the mention of an old witch. The wailing of this dark creature is, for instance, taken as portentous, a signpost to evil. So, at its shriek cry in the middle of the night, no true mother w...
The Senate yesterday confirmed the ministerial nomination of Mr. Inuwa Abdul-Kadir, thereby filling the ministerial slot for Sokoto State. Former minister of Sports, Alhaji Yusuf Suleiman, had resigned to contest for governorship of Sokoto...
President Goodluck Jonathan has revealed how he takes decisions on state matters by taking into cognisance the views expressed by thousands of social media users who interact with him on daily basis as online friends. Jonathan, in a posting yesterday t...
Last week, President Goodluck Jonathan was rattled out of his cocoon by the federal government’s decision to increase electricity tariff next month to narrate how he was betrayed by the governors over the fuel subsidy crisis early this year. But ...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has admitted the FRSC into the UN Road Safety Collaboration (UNRSC). This is contained in a statement issued by Mr Jonas Agwu, the new Public Education Officer of the FRSC in Abuja on Tuesday. The statement said that...
The Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu, on Tuesday denied that the states were not paying the new minimum wage of N18,000 signed into law in 2011 by President Goodluck Jonathan. The minister told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in A...
Vice-President Namadi Sambo on Tuesday in Abuja presented to the public a book on the late President Umaru Yar’Adua and extolled his servant-leadership qualities. The book entitled: “The Servant Leader 2 - 3 Years Presidential Watershed of ...