Speaker, House of Representatives, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, yesterday, set up a 23-man ad-hoc committee to carry out further legislative action on the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB). The bill scaled second reading after extensive and wide-ranging debate b...
Benue State Governor Gabriel Suswam has called on participants at the North Central zonal public hearing on the review of the 1999 Constitution to pass a vote of confidence on the National Assembly. Suswam made the appeal yesterday in Makurdi at the zo...
The Niger State Commissioner for Works and Infrastructural Development Alhaji Abubakar Baba Jibreel has said that the Niger state government is to expend N123.5million on the renovation of the Governor’s Main lodge in Government House, MinnaJibre...
Hell was yesterday let lose at Irona area of Ado-Ekiti, the capital of Ekiti as no fewer than seven persons were reported injured in a bloody clash between supporters of Action Congress of Nigeria (A CN) and Peoples Democratic Party. Trouble started wh...
The clampdown on commercial motorcyclists, popularly known as Okada, occasioned by their restriction on 475 routes in the Lagos metropolis yesterday got the backing of Chairmen of the 20 Local Governments Areas and 37 Local Council Development Areas, L...
Three officers of Kebbi State command of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Mr. Yusuf Isaya, Sahabi Smaila and Mohamed Abubakari who rejected bribe offer from a suspected drug baron arrested in Badariya area of Birnin Kebbi have been commende...
Barely 20 hours after the reconstituted Edo State Election Tribunal ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to make available election materials to legal Counsels of Major General Charles Airhiavbere (rtd), the Court of Appeal in B...
The Lagos branch Chairman of the National Union of Petroleum and Gas Workers (NUPENG), Alhaji Tokunboh Korodo has said that despite the fact that the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) has passed its second reading at the National Asseembly, the Union...
Second Niger bridge and issues pertaining to infrastructure in the South- East were high on the agenda of a closed door meeting between President Goodluck Jonathan and governors of the geo-political zone Wednesday night. Anambra State governor, Mr. Pet...
Kano State Police Command, yesterday, said that the armed robbers who invaded and carted away large sums of money from Wapa Bureau de Change at Fagge last Tuesday disguised as customers before launching their attack on the operators. The graphic accoun...
Nasarawa state governor Umaru Tanko Al-Makura yesterday celebrated his 60th birthday with students of Government science school Nasarawa Eggon and Government Science Secondary School, Lafia, with a promise to elevate the schools to a Comprehensive Coll...
A former Minister of Education, Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili, on Thursday called on the Federal Government to invest in early childhood education as a long-term strategy toward revamping the economy and improving the country’s Gross Domestic Product. ...
The last of a wave of strikes that have swept South Africa's mining sector ended on Thursday after workers accepted an offer from Anglo American Platinum Ltd. South Africa's platinum and gold sectors have been rocked for months by often v...
The Deputy Governor of Kogi, Mr Yomi Awoniyi, has said that the state’s flood victims are desperate to go back to their homes to continue their businesses. Awoniyi, who made this known when he received the Head, African Zone of the Red Cross, Mr ...
An environment expert, Mr Babarinde Mukaila said on Thursday that the dredging of River Niger alone would not address the problem of flooding in Nigeria. Mukaila, who is the Head of Climate Change Unit in the Federal Ministry of Water Resources, ...