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Senate Leader, Chief Victor Ndoma-Egba, SAN has said that the proposed six year single tenure has not yet been brought to the national assembly but assured that whenever the lawmakers get the proposal; it would be subjected to public hearing, so that t...
Imo State governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha has disclosed that the state government will go into partnership with an Italian-based non governmental organisation known as Opera Don Bonifacio Azione Verde to render services to humanity. Disclosing this in...
The Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) has urged Labour leaders in Enugu State to take urgent disciplinary action against members of the controversial Workers Forum which turned the three-day-warning strike embarked upon by public servants in the state...
A Non Governmental Organisation in Ekiti State, the Ekiti Justice Group (EJG) has urged Governor Kayode Fayemi to be guided by the overriding interest of the state, not partisan politics in handling the ongoing Airport Project being executed in the Sta...
It is simply a battle of ex-directors-general of the beleaguered Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) as Dr. Julius Bala, a former D-G yesterday warned his predecessor, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, to desist from further smearing his reputation or face court ac...
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that it will consult the party’s stakeholders over demands for fresh governorship primaries. This it says has become necessary following agitations by some...
National Publicity Secretary of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Professor Rufai Ahmed Alkali, said yesterday that he was still consulting with the major stakeholders in the party on the suitability or otherwise for him to vie for the ...
The Imo state government has threatened to revoke all land allocations not developed by their allottees. The Commissioner for Lands, Survey and Urban Planning, Chief Ogueri Enwerem, issued the threat yesterday in Owerri in an interview with journalists...
The second defence witness in the ongoing trial of Major Hamza Al-Mustapha yesterday told a Lagos High Court in Igbosere how he was detained and tortured in order to confirm that the accused person was involved in the murder of Alhaja Kudirat Abiola. K...
Rivers State Governor, Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi said that he would soon approach the state House of Assembly for approval to obtain a loan of N100 billion from a new generation financial institution, Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB). The governor, a few w...
The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, yesterday adjourned its ruling till August 19 in the applications by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which sought to strike-out some of the paragraphs that made...
The Senator representing Kwara Central in the Senate and former governor of Kwara state, Dr Bukola Saraki, recently visited the state. Afterwards, he engaged newsmen on how the Senate could drive the nation’s economy through the enactment of laws...
The minimum wage controversy has refused to die down in Enugu State even after the government at the center has signed the agreements and other states have started paying. NNAMDI MBAWIKE reports. Few months ago, President Goodluck Jonathan signed the N...
The ongoing probe of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) by the Senate has exposed nauseating rot and high level of profligacy in governance. UCHENNA AWOM and CHIBUZO UKAIBE in this analysis, give an insight into the mind boggling expose of how the ...
Bauchi State governor, Isa Yuguda, Friday swore in 16 commissioners and 20 advisers as members of the state executive council. Former speaker of the state House of Assembly, Alhaji Abubakar Faggo, who lost his bid to return to the House in the Ap...