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The Federal Government says it will launch a job creation scheme that enables young people with knowledge and capacity to employ other young people. President Goodluck Jonathan made the disclosure while hosting Mrs Helen Clark, Administrator of ...
President Goodluck Jonathan has restated his commitment to building virile institutions in the country to strengthen Nigeria’s democracy and make the country a better place for all. Jonathan was speaking with the new Belgian Ambassador to ...
With the conclusion of governorship primaries by the political parties in Kogi State, the stage is now set for the battle for the soul of the state. Hamzat Baba in Lokoja observes that the forthcoming poll will not be a tea party as all the parties are...
Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson, Chairman House of Representatives Committee on Special Duties, represents Sagbama/ Ekeremor Federal Constituency of Bayelsa State.In his first term in office (between 2007 and 2011), he sponsored a bill that led to the amend...
A number of key leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in Lagos State have petitioned President Goodluck Jonathan over an alleged nomination of the wife of former PDP National Vice Chairman, South, Chief Olabode George, Mrs Roli Bode-George...
The chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, is to lead a 150-member Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Election Observer Mission to monitor Liberia’s presidential polls scheduled for Octo...
Former governor of Kogi State and candidate of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the coming gubernatorial election in the state, Prince Abubakar Audu, has said he is seeking the state’s top leadership seat in order to rescue the state from misr...
Sir Victor Umeh is the National Chairman of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA). In this interview with IGHO OYOYO in Abuja, x-rays the country’s political independence anniversary at 51, corruption, party politics, leadership, followership...
Osa Okhomina inYenagoa writes on the scramble for the soul of Sagbama and Ekeremor Local Government Areas of Bayelsa by desperate politicians to oil the re-election of Bayelsa State Governor, Timipre Sylva. When the duo of the Sagbama and Ekeremor Loca...
Strong indications emerged yesterday that the Senate was not disposed to swear in Senator Alphonsus Igbeke based on what it termed “obvious contradictions in his court order and procedures”. Igbeke had on Tuesday obtained an ex parte order ...
Despite the twin-threats by the dreaded Islamic sect known as Boko Haram and MEND, coupled with early down pour of rain in Lagos, the Lagos State governor, Babatunde Fashola and teeming Lagosians yesterday converged on the Police College located ...
In spite of the Adamawa State government’s threat to adopt the no-work-no-pay approach for its striking workers, Governor Murtala Nyako has ordered the payment of their September salary. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the workers h...
A coalition of non-governmental organisations on Saturday, sent a request to President Goodluck Jonathan to appoint former governor of Zamfara State, Sen. Ahmed Sani Yerima as a special envoy and presidential adviser on religious harmony in the norther...
A coalition of ethnic and civil societies in the Niger Delta, the United Niger Delta Energy Development Security Strategy (UNDEDSS), has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to release the white paper on the Niger Delta. The News Agency o...
A group, the Bonny Graduates Forum (BGF), the umbrella body of all graduates from Bonny local government area of Rivers State, has called for the unconditional and immediate release of the secretary and legal adviser of the Rivers State Traffic Managem...