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Ms Amal Pepple, Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, has said that Nigeria needs a National Housing and Urban Development Policy to achieve set goals in mass housing delivery. Pepple made the statement on Tuesday in Abuja at the Ministeria...
Malam Abubakar Umar, former Public Relations Officer of the Sokoto Sultanate Council, has commended the Federal Government's decision to dialogue with members of Boko Haram towards securing lasting peace in the country. Umar told the News Age...
Sen. Olufemi Lanlehin, representing Oyo South Senatorial District, on Tuesday in Ibadan said the National Assembly would soon amend the constitution to favour regional government. Lanlehin, who said this at the inauguration of solar-p...
In this report, ADESUWA TSAN and EDEGBE ODEMWINGIE touch on the trade of words among senior officials of the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC), the inaugural visit of the US Ambassador to the Lower House, and the planned retreat slated for May by ...
As part of the efforts geared towards increasing the internally generated revenue of Nigeria, the House of Representatives has beamed its search light on the maritime sector with the intention of increasing the involvement of Nigerian vessels in trade ...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday implored West African Defence Chiefs to ensure that peace and security are sustained in the sub-region, especially troubled countries like Mali and Guinea Bissau. Jonathan who made this appeal at the presidential v...
Minister of National Planning, Dr Shamsuddeen Usman has said that 17 States’ Statistical Agencies have been linked to the National Data Centre. Usman made this known in Abuja on Monday at a Ministerial Platform in commemoration of Democracy...
Mr Samson Mafuyai, President of the Plateau State Chapter of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), has rejected a recent declaration by Gov. Jonah Jang that the state’s Local Government system is ``rotten’’. ``Such ...
The Federal Government has renewed its commitment to improving the lives of women, children and persons with disabilities. The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajiya Zainab Maina, made the statement in her presentation at the minister...
The FCT Minister, Sen. Bala Mohammed, has directed the Development Control Department of the FCT to remove ``all shanties springing up in the capital. Mohammed who gave the directive in a statement by the ministry's Chief Press Secretary, Mr Mohamm...
Gov. Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State on Monday said sustainable development could only be achieved in Nigeria if its citizens obeyed laws. He spoke when a delegation of the Ikeja Branch of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) led by its Chairman, Mr Taiw...
At plenary last Tuesday, the Senate President, David Mark, advocated dialogue as a way out of the security crisis and also beamed the spotlight on the national assembly for being reactive instead of proactive. Chibuzo Ukaibe, reports. His first o...
EDEGBE ODEMWINGIE in this report, details the highpoints of the ongoing House of Representatives inquest into the near collapse of Nigeria’s capital market. Federal lawmakers hope the public hearing will restore back confidence in the ailing mark...
Gov. Jonah Jang of Plateau said that the state government planned to make Jos Airport an export zone for agricultural produce. Jang stated this in a statement made available to newsmen in Lagos on Sunday. The governor said that...
Pastor Enoch Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), has predicted that the current security challenge confronting the country will soon be a thing of the past. Adeboye, who was speaking at the Northern Niger...