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Aggrieved workers of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) Sapele, Delta State, have accused the management of embezzling the sum of N400 million purportedly released by the state government to upgrade its facilities. However, spokesm...
The Court of Appeal in Enugu has reserved judgment for tomorrow in the petition by Prof Dora Akunyili challenging the election of Senator Chris Ngige. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that Akunyili, who contested on the platform of...
Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola (SAN), yesterday presented the 2012 budget of N485.292 billion to the State House of Assembly for approval. The budget which the government hoped would revamp and put the activities of the govern...
Former Oyo State Governor, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, has reminded a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former Minister for Special Duties, Elder Wole Oyelese, that he was not in a position to speak for the Party regarding con...
The governorship candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in Kebbi State, Abubakar Mallam, has expressed satisfaction with the verdict of the Election Petitions Tribunal that annulled the election of Governor Saidu Dakingari in the April ...
The Kaduna State Government has spent over N10 million to evacuate drainages in an effort to avert flooding in Kaduna metropolis. The state Commissioner for Environment, Mr Zakariya Shamaki, who announced this yesterday in Abuja in an inter...
Nasarawa State government has said that it would increase investment in education to improve infrastructure and provide instructional materials in primary and post primary schools. The State Governor, Umaru Tanko Al-makura, made this known in his...
The Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, Dr. Paul Orhii, has disclosed that the chairperson of Primus Hospital in India, Dr. Achla Dewan, plans to establish a centre for specialised surgeries in ...
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, is to inaugurate 5,000 ethics marshals in Abuja to stem examination malpractices in Nigeria. Founding Chairman of the Exams Ethics Marshals International, Mr Ike ...
A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Mr Emmanuel Abalaka, yesterday, urged a Federal High Court in Abuja to nullify the nomination of Captain Idris Wada as the party’s governorship candidate for the December 3 election in Kogi State on the...
Immediate past Chairman of First Bank Plc, Chief Oba Otudeko, has said that he owed the national honours award of Commander of the Federal Republic (CON) conferred on him to the Almighty God. Otedeko was among the 355 distinguished Nigerians pres...
The Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Kaduna State yesterday nullified the election of Dr Ahmad Datti of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and declared former Governor of Kaduna state, Senator Ahmad Makarfi of the Peoples Democratic ...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday described the decision by Nigeria’s foremost prolific writer, Prof. Chinua Achebe, to reject the conferment of the national honour of Commander of the Federal Republic (CFR) on him as regrettable. ...
Irked by recent reports alleging that she acquired a 20 million Euro mansion in Vienna, Austria, the minister of petroleum resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, has petitioned the National Intelligence Agency (NIA). The terse petition to the di...
Former Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Rowland Owie, Senator Roland Owie, has called on the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Justice Bello Adoke, to prosecute former President Olusegun Obasanjo for pulling down ...