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President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday extolled the virtues of United States President Barack Obama and said that within the 50 years of his life, the first African-American president had recorded epic achievements on personal, national and internationa...
This might not be the best of times for the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) as the solicitors representing Former Acting Head of Information of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Iduh Lawrence Onah and Miss Esther F. Ogunfowora have threatened ...
The National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Kaduna has adjourned the case between former Kaduna State governor, Senator Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi, and the candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in the April senatorial elect...
The political lobbying and jostling for ministerial appointment may have come and gone but the aftermath have continued to plague the crisis-ridden Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP). Aggrieved members have vowed to destroy the pa...
Workers in Edo State yesterday commenced an indefinite strike following breakdown in negotiations between the government and the state chapters of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC). The strike, expectedly paralysed activities...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday released a timetable for staggered governorship elections in six states -Sokoto, Bayelsa, Edo, Adamawa, Cross River and Kogi. The INEC commissioner in charge of Information and Publicity, P...
The Governor of Kaduna State, Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa has charged his fellow northern governors to pay very special attention to agricultural development especially peasant agriculture Speaking in an interview with LEADERSHIP Correspondent in the United...
The administration of Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, says it is introducing austerity measures in its bid to pay the N18,000 minimum wage and further deliver democracy dividends. GEORGE OKOJIE examines the circumstances that demand such sev...
Former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Muhammadu Uwais has canvassed the payment of grants to political parties by the Federal Government. This, he said, will assist the parties in offsetting their electoral and other bills. Uwais told the News Agenc...
The Bayelsa State governor, Chief Timipre Sylva yesterday queried the rationale behind the demand by the state workers for the implementation of the N18,000 minimum wage, even as he said that the services they offered were not commensurate with wages p...
The crisis-ridden Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State yesterday in Ibadan announced the expulsion of senators Lekan Balogun, Teslim Folarin and six other chieftains of the party for anti-party activities which led to the dismal performance of t...
The proposed six-year single term tenure for president and governors being promoted by President Goodluck Jonathan has received a hard knock from Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi. Fayemi who was responding to questions on his monthly media chat,...
A former Head of State and presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change(CPC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has dragged the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, before a Lagos High Court over alleg...
Scores of female students of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, who are undergoing pre-degree programme have fled their hostels at Moro village, on the outskirt of the ancient town, following alleged case of gang rape. The News Agency of Nigeri...
Members of the House of Representatives have cautioned former President Olusegun Obasanjo to desist from making inflammatory statements about the Speaker of the House, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal. Obasanjo had recently asked Tambuwal to step down because, acco...