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A housewife, Mariam Azeez, of Adangba area of Ilorin on Tuesday prayed an Ilorin Area Court to dissolve her marriage to one Ayuba Azeez, describing him as an irresponsible man. The petitioner told the court that her husband had abandoned her since...
Some youths in Langtang South Local Government Area of Plateau on Tuesday burnt down the houses of a commissioner, a legislator and the council chairman. The victims included Mr Bako Famak, Youths Development Commissioner, Mrs Joyce Ramnap, the lawmake...
The Kwara State Muslim Welfare Board said on Tuesday that 82 prospective pilgrims from the state failed to perform this year's Hajj due to non issuance of visas by the Saudi authorities. Hajia Fatima Jimoh, the Executive Secretary of the boar...
President Goodluck Jonathan has requested the Senate’s approval of N161.6 billion as fuel subsidy under a supplementary budget for 2012. The request was contained in a letter he sent to the senate and read by S...
The Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Ayotunde Phillips, on Tuesday released a 75-year-old prisoner, Job Meleb, and 45 other inmates from the Ikoyi Prisons in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that Phillips had on Sept. 18 released 233 ...
Mr Chris Olakpe, the new Commissioner of Police in Plateau on Tuesday assumed duty with a call for dialogue between striking workers and the state government to end the impasse. Olakpe, who took over the command on Monday, was greeted on assu...
The Registrar of the National Examinations Council (NECO), Prof. Promise Okpala, said on Tuesday in Abuja that staff transfers in the establishment were punitive but a normal practice in the council. Okpala was speaking against&nbs...
The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) says it sealed 51 companies in the last three months for offences relating to tax evasion. Mrs Folasade Coker-Afolayan, the Head of Distrain Unit of LIRS, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeri...
The House of Representatives Committee on Information on Tuesday in Abuja urged the media to boost Nigeria’s anti-corruption campaign through effective use of the Freedom of Information Act (FOI). The committee's Chairman, Alhaji Buba Jibril,...
The Nasarawa State House of Assembly on Tuesday withdrew its earlier threat to impeach Gov. Tanko Al-Makura over the rising wave of insecurity in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the l...
In what appeared like a rebellion against the stand of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF),on the issue of granting autonomy to the local government system, the Association of Local Governments’ of Nigeria, ALGON, recently organized a three-...
Edo State governor Adams Oshiomhole yesterday called for equity and justice in revenue sharing formula in the country, saying such would make states to develop according to their pace. According to Oshiomhole, it is illegal since 1999, 13 years a...
EDEGBE ODEMWINGIE reports on the renewed spat between federal lawmakers and the regulator of Nigeria’s Capital Market. Also other key developments in the Green Chamber are highlighted. The House of Representatives on Thursday declared that it wou...
The occasion was meant to be an avenue where the people of Shanono/Bagwai Federal Constituency made their inputs into the ongoing constitution review exercise but it turn out to be a platform where a vote of confidence was passed on one of their sons, ...
The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Bauchi Council, has appealed to government to hasten the implementation of weigh in allowance for media workers in the state. The Council’s Chairman, Mr Dahiru Mohammed, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN...