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Mr. Kayode Akinmade is the Commissioner for Information and Strategy in Ondo State. In this interview with VICTOR ORIOLA, he said Governor Segun Mimiko had been able to change the face of governance in the state. He also maintained that the exit ...
The ongoing registration of cooperatives will assist the Federal Government to achieve the set targets under the Agricultural Transformation Agenda, says the Federal Department of Cooperatives. Mr Jonathan Dangwaran, the Director of Cooperatives, Feder...
The spokesman of 81 Division of the Nigerian Army, Lt-Col. Kayode Ogunsanya, on Tuesday said that soldiers deployed to Lagos by the Federal Government would stay for a while. The FG had in the wake of protests over fuel subsidy removal, deployed ...
WaterAid Nigeria, an international NGO, says Nigeria is ''off track'' to meet MDG target on water and sanitation. Mr Timeyin Uwejamomere, the organisation’s Country Representative in Nigeria, said this in an interview on Tuesday i...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), a human rights group, has urged the Federal Government to display exemplary political will to tackle the “cabal” in the oil sector. The Executive Director of SERAP, Mr Adetokunbo...
Independent marketers and oil majors on Tuesday assured Nigerians of the availability of petrol in all their filling stations. They gave the assurance in separate interviews with reporters in Lagos. They said that their assurance stemmed from the new p...
An Abuja High Court judge, Justice Folasade Ojo, on Tuesday warned against the flagrant disobedience of court orders, by legal practitioners and parties in disputes. She said the trend could expose the judiciary to ridicule. Justice Ojo gave the warni...
The Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order (ORO) said in Maiduguri on Tuesday that it had arrested six prominent individuals suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect. The JTF Field Commander, Col. Victor Ebhaleme, told newsmen th...
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) says it will force filling stations that have petroleum product to sell at approved pump prices. Mr Gbenga Koku, Operations Controller in Lagos/ Ogun Zonal Office said in Lagos on Tuesday that the agency had ...
Mr Jonathan Nicol, General Secretary of Shippers Association of Lagos State, on Tuesday said that port operators would protest demurrage charges by shipping companies for the recent six-day nationwide strike. Nicol said the importers were surprised to ...
Mr Kazeem Adebanjo, the Chairman, Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Ikorodu Branch in Lagos State, said on Tuesday that lawyers would continue to engage the government on issues that affect the populace. He said with or without strike, the responsibility ...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged Nigerians to take advantage of the ongoing dialogue between the Federal Government and labour on the deregulation of the downstream sector of the petroleum industry to make positive contributions to the disc...
Unidentified gunmen on Tuesday in Mubi, Adamawa, killed a police officer, Cpl. Jubril Abdulkarim. A resident, Malam Idi Baba, said the incident occurred at about 6 a.m. at Wuro-Gude area of Mubi. Baba said the police officer was riding on a motorcycle ...
Gov. Babangida Aliyu of Niger has raised a 13-member committee to assess the extent of damage to public and private property during the Jan. 11 riot by youths protesting the removal of fuel subsidy in the country. The Commissio...
The emergency sitting conveyed by the House of Representatives members on Sunday, January 8, 2012 continues to dominate public debates. The subsequent dismissal of the motion of the House by President Goodluck Jonathan and his kitchen cabinet hav...