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Benue state Governor Gabriel Suswam has attributed the non-payment of pension and gratuity allowances of Benue pensioners which has accumulated to the tune of N8 billion to the inability of the previous administration to ensure up-to-date payment, sayi...
The Director General, Press Affairs in Kogi State, Mr. Richard Elesho, has described as untrue, the rumour making the rounds that the travelling documents of the erstwhile governor of the state, Alhaji Ibrahin Idris, have been seized by anti graft agen...
The National Orientation Agency (NOA) is set to introduce citizen’s volunteer scheme to orientate them on how they can contribute to transforming their communities. The Director General of NOA, Mr Mike Omeri, disclosed this yesterday, in Ab...
The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has cautioned the public against the abuse of syrups containing codeine, saying the medicine was meant for cough relief. The Director-General of the agency, Dr Paul Orhii, gave the ...
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Kaduna State Chapter, has tasked Governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa to engage the youths of the State positively in a way that will benefit the State’s economy and bring about a lasting peace. This was just as i...
State governor, Hajiya Fatima Shema, yesterday launched the sales of grains at subsidized prices to women in the state. Speaking at the launch which was witnessed by women from different strata in the state, Mrs Shema said the measure was aimed at miti...
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, will today launch a new official website of the State designed to set a robust integrated multimedia digital media channels- online, social media and mobile media. In a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to t...
The Ministry of Water Resources says it has put in place water sector roadmap in line with the transformation agenda of the Federal government. Specifically,the roadmap was meant to ensure that water reaches all communities in the country,and that wome...
The Supreme Court yesterday adjourned till May 25 judgement in an appeal by a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abia State, Chief Ikechi Emenike, against Governor Theodore Orji also of the PDP. Emenike had asked the apex court to set a...
The former Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, yesterday, reacted to the confiscation of his properties by the Ogun State Government and said the action was an assault on the rule of law. Daniel in a statement issued in Abeokuta and signed by...
The Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Ekiti State, Mr. Dayo Adelaja yesterday advised the former governor of Ekiti State, Mr Segun Oni and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) not to challenge at the Supreme Court the ruling of a Court of Appe...
The lawmaker representing Gwarzo/kabo federal constituency of Kano State in the House of Representatives, Hon. Sule Garo, has congratulated the state governor, Dr. Rabiu Kwankwaso, for his victory at the Supreme Court which yesterday dismissed th...
Residents of Fugar in Etsako Central Local Government Area of Edo are currently facing hardship, as water scarcity hits the town and its environs. The correspondent who went round the town, reports that the scarcity is occasioned by the breakdown of th...
The Police in Akure on Tuesday arraigned a 28-year-old woman, Folashade Babatunde before an Akure Senior Magistrates' Court for allegedly pouring faeces on a female banker. The accused, a trade and HND student at Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo in Ondo...
Imo Governor Owelle Rochas Okorocha, on Monday demanded the creation of additional states for the South-East to honour Chief Chukwuemeka Odumuegwu-Ojukwu. Okorocha made the call at a ceremony he organised to receive the remains of Ojukwu at the Heros&r...