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The Senior Special Adviser to Benue State Governor on Special Duties who is also contesting for Logo Local Government Council Chairmanship, Hon Terna Kester Kyenge was recently in New York, the United States of America where he attended a workshop. He ...
Salisu Ibrahim, Kano bureau chief writes on the schism in the Kano State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). For the past few weeks, leading figures in the Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] in Kano State have been trading accusations amon...
Gov. Sule Lamido of Jigawa has urged the people to support the Federal Government's planned removal of fuel subsidy, assuring them that the measure would ensure national development. Lamido made the call at the closing ceremony of a workshop for bu...
The emir of Katsina, Alhaji Abdulmuminu Usman, has attributed youth restiveness to poverty and the alarming rate of unemployment in the country. Speaking in Katsina on Monday when he received the Katsina State Committee on Youth Restiveness and Unemplo...
The ranks of the supporters of the Bayelsa state Governor, Chief Timipre Sylva was yesterday thrown into confusion following the official resignation of three influential members of his cabinet. The Commissioner for Youths, Peace and Conflict Resolutio...
A Kaduna based Civil rights activist and President of the Civil Rights Congress (CRC), Mallam Shehu Sani has described as diversionary, the arrest and detention of Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume by the State Security Service (SSS). Sani also said tha...
Bayelsa State Governor, Timipre Sylva, has condemned the arrest and unlawful detention of 70 of his supporters in Lokoja, Kogi State. The governor’s supporters were intercepted at about 5pm yesterday on their way to Abuja to show solidarity with ...
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has trained 7,973 ad-hoc staff to ensure the success of the forthcoming governorship poll in Kogi state. The commission which disclosed this in a statement made available to newsmen in Lokoja yesterd...
Mobilises support for Wada - President Goodluck Jonathan has said that his administration is still committed to establishing a viable and functional steel industry in Nigeria. Jonathan, who spoke at a meeting with Kogi State Governor Ibrahim Idri...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has expressed sadness at the death of Ikemba Nnewi Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu. ``It is with deep sadness that I received the news of the demise of my friend and colleague. “He and I were subalterns in the army ...
Ahead of Saturday’s governorship election in Kogi State, no fewer than 5000 operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) have been deployed to ensure maximum security around polling units and safeguard electoral. Speaking to...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has enlisted 25 accredited domestic observer groups for the Dec. 3 governorship election in Kogi. A statement issued on Monday in Abuja by Alhaji Mustapha Kuta, Acting Secretary of the Commission, ur...
A human rights activist, Mr. Femi Falana, has faulted President Goodluck Jonathan over the setting up of a presidential Committee on the Review the 1999 Constitution, saying the action is a ruse to divert attention from the popular demand for a new con...
Five Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) local government chairmen in Bayelsa State chapter have accused Governor Timipre Sylva of sponsoring non- PDP members to Abuja to protest his disqualification from the November 19 PDP governorship primary elect...
Akanimo Sampson in Port Harcourt writes on Rivers State Government’s plan to demolish waterfronts in Port Harcourt and the attendant political controversy. The contentious waterfronts in Port Harcourt, the capital city of Rivers State, will soon ...