Politics

President Goodluck Jonathan and Ghanaian president, John Dramani Mahama yesterday engaged themselves   In a closed door meeting yesterday over what may have appeared to be a meeting bordering on security and the Nigeria’s economy. Jonat...

Off the political radar for some time, former governor of Abia State, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu, signals in this interview with LOUIS ACHI, that the politics of a new Nigeria needs his input at different critical levels. He clarifies his conception of governan...

Ogun State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun will on Monday, September 10, deliver the 2012 Press Week lecture of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists {NUJ}, Oyo State. The governor will be speaking on “Military In...

Gov.  Umaru Al-Makura of Nasarawa State on Thursday in Lafia, said that two airports would soon be built in the state as part of his administration's transformation agenda. Al-Makura made the disclosure while speaking with newsmen after undert...

Dana Air office at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, has reopened for business, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The reopening of the office followed the lifting of the suspension clamped on the airline by the Federal Government...

The Presidential Amnesty Office (PAO) said on Thursday in Abuja that 30 former militants had been offered welding and fabrication employment by the Proclad Group of Companies in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). Mr Kingsley Kuku, the Chairman of PAO, ...

The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajiya Zainab Maina, has unveiled a gender policy for the Nigeria Police. Speaking at the unveiling of the policy in Abuja on Thursday, the minister said that the policy when implemented, would elim...

It is no longer news that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will introduce the N5,000 note into circulation in 2013 as part of a comprehensive currency restructuring exercise and also the lower naira denominations of N20, N10 and N5 will be made coins....

President Goodluck Jonathan said, yesterday, that he will fill the two ministerial vacancies brought about by the resignation of the Power Minister, Prof. Barth Nnaji and the removal of Defence Minister, Dr. Haliru Bello as soon as the Senate resumes f...

The deputy governor  of Taraba State Alhaji Sani Abubaka Danladi yesterday confirmed that he received an impeachment notice from the state House of Assembly,  stating that he is working round the clock to reply the allegations leveled against...

The first governor of Plateau State and former chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Solomon Lar, says he has forgiven General Muhammadu Buhari who imprisoned him when he overthrew the Second Republic in 1984. The elder statesman said this...

Adamawa State Governor Murtala Nyako has been allegedly fingered in the arrest and detention of the Deputy Speaker of Adamawa State House of Assembly, Hon. Kwamoti Laori. The police on Monday arrested Hon. Laori over the Ngbalang crises in Numan Local ...

The Federal Government has for the second time, decided to mark the Independence Day Anniversary of the Country  in a low key. This time, it is not because it is wary of bomb attacks by the  Boko Haram sect, which has been waging a relentless...

Mr Labaran Maku, the Minister of Information, on Monday in Abuja appealed to university administrators to do more to checkmate the declining standard of university education in the country. Maku made the appeal when Prof. Shamsudeen Amali, the Vice Cha...

Gov. Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State on Tuesday warned that the state government has no room for corrupt, indolent and incompetent people. Yuguda gave the warning in Bauchi while swearing-in Sole Administrators for the 20 Local Government Councils in the st...