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Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Nasir el-Rufai, is one Nigerian who does not need any introduction. Right from the days he was in charge of the nation’s privatisation agency as the director-general of the Bureau of P...
Governors of the South-Western region of Nigeria have resolved to put resources together to ensure rapid socio-economic and infrastructural development of states in the region. This was one of the agreements reached by governors of states in the ...
There were wild jubilations in Akure yesterday as civil servants trooped in their hundreds to celebrate the approval of the N18,000 minimum wage by the Ondo State government. Governor Dr Olusegun Mimiko had earlier in the morning met with Labour ...
The All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) yesterday suspended its governorship candidate in Kogi State, Prince Abubakar Audu. Giving reasons for his suspension from the party, the ANPP national chairman, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, said Audu was involved in anti-par...
Willy-nilly, the struggle for which zone and what politician clinches the coveted position of national chairman of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has degenerated to an unseemly, fractious contest notwithstanding that the party has zoned it t...
The alleged political cold war within the ranks of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over ministerial nominees in Kaduna state yesterday took another turn, with some section of the party members rejecting the replacement of previous nominees. H...
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan yesterday bowed to the demand of the House of Representatives that he formally communicates to it the list of the 20 special advisers he had earlier sent to the Senate for approval. In a letter dated July 1, 2011, read...
Disturbed by the state of affairs within the Peoples Democratic Party, the PDP Transformation Network (PTN) and the PDP National Interest Group (PNIG) has called for the immediate resignation of the National Working Committee of the party. Speaking at ...
Hon. Niyi Jones Akinyugha represented Idanre/Ifedore Federal Constituency of Ondo State but lost his return bid to the seventh House of Representatives. Speaking to journalists, including RUTH CHOJI, in Abuja recently, the environmental consultant reve...
Following the meeting of some South-East stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Enugu, demanding the region’s completion of its tenure of the party’s chairmanship, the presidency and the National Working Committee of the part...
Akwa Ibom State Governor, Chief Godwill Akpabio on Saturday night stayed away from the meeting of the governors of the six states in the South South geo-political zone, held at Government House, Port Harcourt. LEADERSHIP observed that the Saturday&rsqu...
Against all odds to shelve information regarding his redeployment as the Presidential spokesman, President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday formally briefed Mr. Ima Niboro, his erstwhile Special Adviser on Media and publicity that he would be reassigned to ...
Beyond a claim to greatness firmly tied to its population size and the vastness of its oil fields, Nigeria’s socio-political developmental progress remains unflattering. This scenario is hardly helped by the latest annual rating of US-based non-p...
The Justice For All Nations (JFAN), a United States of America-based non-governmental organisation, has warned the National Judicial Council (NJC) Probe Panel investigating allegations of unethical conduct against the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Ju...
The epidemiologist in the Gombe State ministry of health, Dr. Abubakar Joshua has said that some communities were still rejecting the polio vaccine, in spite of the aggressive awareness campaign by the authorities. He disclosed that some communities ha...