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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will hold a retreat for zonal and state publicity and organising secretaries ahead of 2015 general elections. Mr Olisa Metuh, the National Publicity Secretary of the party, said in a statement on Friday night Abuja. A...
The Minister of Works, Mr Mike Onolememen, has blamed previous governments for the current deplorable state of many roads in the country. Onolememen expressed the disgust at the Academy of Entrepreneurial Studies (AES) Excellence Club 3rd Annual...
Bishop David Oyedepo of Living Faith Church (Winners Chapel), has urged Nigerians to pray for God’s intervention to restore peace and change the mind of leaders. At the annual Winners Chapel convention, Shiloh 2012, titled ``Double Portion’...
The Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order on Friday, shot dead four suspected terrorist commanders of the Boko Haram group after an operation in Maiduguril. JTF spokesman Lt.-Col. Sagir Musa announced this in a statement issued in...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Osun has arrested a pastor and a 27 year-old man with 181 bags of cannabis sativa popularly known as Indian hemp. The sector commander of the Agency, Anthonia Edeh, made this known on Friday while add...
A cross section of party chieftains affected by the de-registration of 28 parties by INEC on Friday in Abuja described the exercise as human rights violation. Reacting to the development, National Chairman, National Conscience Party (NCP), Dr Yunisa Ta...
he Jigawa Government on Friday inaugurated a 12-member Arts and Multimedia Censorship Board. The state’s Commissioner for Information, Alhaji Babandi Ibrahim, who inaugurated the board, said the committee was to regulate and censor th...
Gov. Liyel Imoke of Cross River on Friday started a two-month accumulated leave. This is contained in a statement issued on Friday in Calabar by Mr Christian Ita, Chief Press Secretary and Special Assistant on Media to the governor, and made avail...
Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN) has intensified the clean up of the Atlantic shoreline in Akwa Ibom contaminated by the Nov. 9, oil spill emanating from its operations. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) learnt that additional 100 oil spill personnel ...
The House of Representatives yesterday declared that it will have no dealings with the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) under its incumbent Director-General, Arunma Oteh. Fielding questions from newsmen on the state of affairs of the, House vis-a...
The national leaders of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) converged on Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital, yesterday to seek the support of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in a bid to realise their drive for a mega merger of all opposition ...
Edo State Governor, Adams Oshomohle, has said that the prescription of staff sack in the civil service by the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, as a way to cut down on the high cost of governance in the country was w...
Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Emeka Ihedioha yesterday challenged Nigerians to encourage the young ones to shun corruption and other social vices in all their endeavour. The lawmaker, who made the appeal during a public presentat...
Ad-Hoc staff who were recruited by the State Independent Election Commission (SIECOM) in the just concluded local government elections into the 23 local government areas of Kaduna State, yesterday besieged the SIECOM office over non payment of their en...
The House of Representatives yesterday developed seeming cold feet on its earlier summon on President Goodluck Jonathan to appear before a closed session of the House over terrorist activities and related cases of insecurity in parts of Nigeria. The Ho...