Politics

The Deputy Director, Public Relations, State Security Service (SSS), Mrs Marilyn Ogar, said in Abuja on Wednesday that Nigerian women can end the security challenges in parts of the country. Ogar made this known at a conference titled ``Role of Women i...

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission (ICPC) has called for an urgent review of the constitutional provisions relating to local governments’ funding in the country. Mr Ekpo Nta, the Acting Chairman of ICPC, made ...

The FRSC says the United Nations has adopted its road safety management model into its decade of action on road safety. Mr Osita Chidoka, the Corps Marshal and Chief Executive Officer of FRSC, announced the adoption at a meeting with sector commanders ...

An Abuja High Court on Wednesday ordered the Inspector-General of Police and the Commissioner of Police in charge of CID, to arraign Abubakar Fugu and Bukar Fannami, unfailingly on May 18. Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf said that the action of the IGP in d...

Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, yesterday restated that electioneering campaign ahead of the July 14 governorship election in the state must be issue based. This is just as he urged the electorate to ask the opposition Peoples Democratic ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has yet to conduct a re-run election to fill the vacant seat of the Oguta State Constituency as ordered by the Federal High Court Owerri, Imo State. Justice F.A Onabanjo had on Dec 12, 2011 ordered t...

Reactions were mixed as some Nigerians reacted to Monday's sack of 788 striking doctors by the Lagos State Government. Founder, Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Dr Frederick Fasheun, on Tuesday in Lagos told NAN that there was a need for the governmen...

The Bauchi State chapter of the CPC has obtained an interim order restraining the Bauchi State Government and two others from spending the local councils' funds apart from payments of salaries. The order, signed by Justice Ibrahim Zango, Chief Judg...

The administrative board of Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has called for a special prayer pilgrimage (meeting) for Nigeria to overcome its insecurity challenges. The statement, issued by the President of CBCN, Most Rev Ignatius Kaigama ...

The Lagos State Police Command said on Monday that it would soon deploy tracker dogs at event centres and social gatherings. The command's spokesman, SP Joseph Jaiyeoba, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the measure was part of efforts to ...

Sen. Jubril Marthins-Kuye, the former Minister for Commerce and Industry, said on Tuesday that every effort was being made to resolve the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State. Marthins-Kuye made  this know...

Against the backdrop of several postponements by the House of Representatives panel investigating the near collapse of Nigeria’s capital market, there have been widespread reports that the panel is cash strapped, hence unable to fund most of its ...

Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr. Reuben Abati is one presidential spokesman who hardly reacts at every criticism against his principal. But last week, in this exclusive interview with GEORGE AGBA, he defended the actions of the presi...

The House of Representatives has queried the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), over the nomination of four of its members to its council by the Security and Exchange  Commission (SEC). The House of Representatives Ad hoc Committee on Capital Market m...