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Katsina State Government has sacked provost of the state owned college of legal and administrative studies, Dr Muazu Abdullahi Saulawa even as it directed immediate dissolution of the institution’s governing council. Addressing newsmen after the ...
Members of the ECOWAS parliament have commenced a study that would enhance powers of the parliament in the region. Ike Ekweremadu, Speaker ECOWAS Parliament disclosed the measure at a meeting with the Zimbabwe Speaker of Parliament, Lovemore Moyo. He s...
The arrest and subsequent arraignment of Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume before an Abuja High Court by the officials of the State Security Service (SSS) who amongst other things, accused him of financing the Boko Haram, is still dominating discussions among...
The House of Representatives yesterday directed its Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream) to ascertain why nine years after permits were granted to private refineries by the federal government, they were yet to commence operations. This is just...
The Bayelsa State Governor Timipre Sylva yesterday told the Court of Appeal in Abuja that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) fraudulently remitted the record of proceedings from a Federal High Court in Abuja to the appellate court just to hold up...
The House of Representatives on Thursday said the planned removal of fuel subsidy by the Federal Government was premature. It urged government to source for other sources of revenue other than expected proceeds from the proposed subsidy removal as part...
Vice-President Namadi Sambo on Thursday in Abuja called on Northern leaders to champion efforts at restoring peace in the region and the country in general. The vice -president made the call at the Northern Peace Conference organised by the Peop...
A Mysterious fire yesterday gutted Uwani Enugu Timber Market, destroying over 100 shops and properties worth over N300 million. Wood working machines, giant generators, doors, timbers, were among the items destroyed by the machines. A...
Lawmakers yesterday queried the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Precious Gbenol, on why the office spent N25 billion out of N54 billion earmarked for the execution of constituency projects in the 2008 a...
The Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) Mrs. Rose Uzoma yesterday told Senators that the service have deported 25 Chinese men over possession of irregular residents permit. She made the disclosure to the Senator Dahiru Kuta-l...
The European Union and United States have jointly urged the Federal Government to implement the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report on the cleaning-up of polluted Ogoniland. They also called on the government to pass the Petroleum ...
When the Court of Appeal sitting in Benin ordered that Dr. Olusegun Mimiko who competed against then incumbent, Dr. Segun Agagu be sworn in as duly elected governor of Ondo State on February 23 2009, little did he know that the success that came ...
Senator Muhammed Magoro, a former Minister of Internal Affairs and a retired Major General in the Nigerian Army now represents Kebbi South Senatorial District in the National Assembly. In this interview with ISAIAH BENJAMIN, the Senate Committee Chairm...
Chief (Mrs) Aisha Eleojo Audu-Emeje was first lady of Kogi State during the reign of her estranged husband, Prince AbubakarAudu. She is the only female candidate jostling for the coveted seat in Saturday’s governorship election in Kogi State unde...
Chief Moses Ado Okino was a three time commissioner in Kogi State, erstwhile member of the House of Representatives (2003-2007) representing Ajaokuta Federal Constituency and currently the Sole Administrator of the Kogi Investment and Properties. In th...