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As the pall of uncertainty hangs over the military on the much-awaited reshufflement of the service chiefs, President Goodluck Jonathan may have settled for Major General Lawrence Ugubane as the new Chief of Army Staff. Since this month began, in...
Following comments from former FCT minister and Arewa Consultative Forum(ACF)’s Board of Trustee ( BoT) Chairman, Lt. Gen. Jeremiah Useni (rtd), that Vice President Namadi Sambo has no clout to rally the north towards 2015, former Presidential Ad...
Despite the recommendation by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar that State Police could be introduced in Nigeria to augment policing activities in the states, Northern Governors are sticking to their guns reaffirming their earlier opposition to the ...
Senator representing Abia Uche Chukwumerije (PDP, Abia) yesterday said that the true meaning and intent of his signature gathering effort was grossly distorted in news reports, and said that it was not true that he was gathering signatures to com...
The Vice Chairman of the Concerned Indigenes of the Niger State and a member of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Alhaji Aweisu Wana, has been arrested by men of the state security service in niger state for allegedly being in pos...
Although the Cross-River Government claimed it spent N13 billion on the rehabilitation of federal roads in the last seven years, it might not get refunds because it failed to follow guidelines. Mr Chinwuba Agbara, Federal Controller of Works in C...
Akwa Ibom Gov. Godswill Akpabio has tasked Traditional Rulers in the state to ensure that there is adequate peace and security in their domain. Akpabio gave the task in Uyo on Saturday during the swearing-in ceremony of the 25th Chairman, Akwa Ibom Sup...
The Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku, has called on public office holders to exhibit the habit of spending government funds judiciously. Maku made the call on Saturday during a tour of the Civil Defence Academy, Abuja, as part of the ongoing Na...
National chairman of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, has told the party’s members in the United States of America to commence preparations for the 2015 general elections so as to displace the ruling party when the time co...
The special visitation panel set up by the Federal Government in July to investigate the activities of University of Abuja since its establishment has described the institution as a mockery of the university system. Presenting the panel&rsq...
Many petrol stations in Jos metropolis have remained shut to motorists due to the non -availability of petrol, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Many petrol stations in the Plateau State capital have not opened in the past one week. The few ind...
Justice Mudashiru Oniyangi of an Abuja High Court on Friday dismissed an application by former Inspector General of Police, Mr Sunday Ehindero, which urged the court to stop ICPC from arraigning him. Oniyangi also dismissed similar applicatio...
An Ikorodu Customary Court in Lagos on Friday dissolved the 13- year-old marriage of a trader who claimed that her husband’s girlfriends regularly harass and beat her. ?The Court President, Mrs Risikat Ekerin, dissolved the union bet...
Some passengers of Arik Air on Friday at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, converged at the desk of Arik Air for the refund of their unused tickets. Some of the aggrieved passengers told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that they ca...
The long queues of vehicles reported at filling stations in Ife and Modakeke towns in Osun due to scarcity of petroleum products have reduced drastically on Friday A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), who visited some of sta...