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President Goodluck Jonathan and other leaders who are meeting in Perth, Australia for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) have agreed to a series of reforms to strengthen the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) in dealing with...
President Goodluck Jonathan failed to show upAustralia when as hefailed to appear for two scheduled speeches at the business side of the on going Commonwealth Head of Governments Meeting (CHOGM). No explanation was given for his absence by the Ni...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday said that the door to the central store of its Lagos office where some Direct Data Capture (DDC) machines and other items got missing was not broken. Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman,...
A Deltan- Abia employee, Olisa (Surname withheld) has reportedly died of heart-attack, aftermath of the controversial Abia State government’s decision to sack workers who are not from the State. Olisa, re...
It was a harvest of hoodlums in Benin City as the Edo State Police command yesterday paraded two suspects in connection with the kidnap and murder of popular Benin musician, Bayo Ade. The two suspects, Chinedu Ihieme (24) and Dickson Iyamu Edamwe...
Kebbi State Governor, Alhaji Saidu Dakingari, and the state House of Assembly are heading for a show down over the appointment of special advisers to the governor.The governor had sent a list of 57 special advisers to the Assembly for a resolutio...
Secretary to the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC), Mr. Elvis Oglafa, has identified funds shortage and lack of adequate manpower as the two major constraints hindering the ICPC and other sister agencies in the fight against c...
A former member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Umar Uba, has accused the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, of refusing to comply with a valid court order that declared him the elected to the House to represent Yauri/S...
The Northern Governors, Forum (NGF) has condoled with the Yobe State Governor Ibrahim Gaidam over the death of his wife, Hajiya Zainab. Governor of Niger State and chairman of the forum, Dr Muazu Babangida Aliyu, urged Gaidam and members of the f...
Niger State Governor, Dr Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu has described the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) as the most important agency for fighting corruption and ensuring that people conform to acceptable norms in the society. Aliyu stated this yesterday w...
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Kwara State has indicated its intention to appeal the judgement of the tribunal which upheld the election of Senator Bukola Saraki for Kwara Central Senatorial District on Wednesday.Chairman of the party in the s...
The All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) has called on the Federal Government to take prompt measures to address security challenge in Zamfara State before it spreads to other parts of the country, especially in view of recent security challenges facing th...
Workers of the multi- billion naira Aluminium Smelting Company, ALSCON, in Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom State, yesterday, took to the streets to protest non payment of severance benefits to disengaged members of staff four years and eight months after t...
Minister of State for Federal Capital Territory, Chief OlaJumoke Akinjide, has attributed increasing threat to food security and healthy living for humans, to environmental degradation and has made a case for accelerated tree planting to reverse the tr...
The Joint Council of Rights Monitoring Group and Conference On Security, Development & Democracy In Nigeria(RMG/CSDDN) has called on State governors across the country to pay more attention to development of human capital. The national coordinator ...