The Supreme Court yesterday affirmed the election of the governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Seriake Dickson. The five justices of the apex court, led by Justice Walter Onnonghen, unanimously dismissed the appeal filed by the Change Advocacy Party (CAP) a...
The South South region may be headed for war if the threat by some Kalabari chiefs, from Rivers State, alleging that President Goodluck Jonathan is plotting to handover oil wells belonging to them is anything to go by. Speaking with newsmen yesterday a...
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja yesterday turned down a request by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for the court to summon the Ijaw leader and former information minister, Chief Edwin Clark to explain why he was commenti...
The House of Representatives yesterday queried the deployment and secrecy around the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) profiles of Ministries, Departments and Agencies in the educational sector, including tertiary institutions. Federal lawmakers raise...
As part of peace building efforts in Plateau State, Governor Jonah Jang has appointed a Senior Special Assistant on Fulani Affairs. A statement in Jos yesterday, signed by Mr James Mannok, the Director of Press Affairs, named the new aide as Mallam Sal...
The Governor of Nasarawa State, Alhaji Umaru Tanko Al-Makura, has called for the total overhaul of the pension scheme as practiced in the country, lamenting that it has usurped the funds available for job creation for the youths who are daily being chu...
The Joint Taskforce of the 3 Battalion of the Nigerian Army, Effurun, yesterday, uncovered a vast expanse of land hosting 18,000 illegal refineries at Escravos in Warri South Local Government area of Delta State. This is ...
President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, approved the redeployment of permanents secretaries and the posting of five new ones, who were sworn into office on Wednesday, 17th October, 2012. Those affected are Dr. A.K. Muhammad from the Office ...
Senate Leader Victor Ndoma-Egba has congratulated Archbishop of Abuja Catholic Diocese, Bishop John Onaiyekan, on his elevation as a Cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI. In a personally signed statement in Abuja yesterday, the Senate Leader also expressed wo...
Until October 3, 2012, Dr Abdullahi Modibbo was the Head, Political Science Department, Nasarawa State University, Keffi. Now he is the chairman of the newly constituted management of Nasarawa State Independent Electoral Commission (NASIEC). He spoke w...
Nigeria’s quest to grow and deepen local capacity in information security received a boost over the weekend following the sponsorship of Team Naija by First Bank of Nigeria Plc to the finals of the global Cyberlympics taking place in Miami, Unite...
Referee Mark Clattenburg has been accused of aiming a racist insult at Mikel Obi of Chelsea in the 3-2 home defeat by Manchester United. Chelsea made a complaint to the Premier League after Mikel stormed into the referee’s room to demand an apolo...
Chiefs of Kalabari Kingdom of Rivers on Monday in Abuja protested what they said were plans to carve out some part of the state and join it with Bayelsa. Mr Emmanuel Awoyesuku, the Chairman of Akulga Local government Area of Rivers, told a news confere...
The PDP said on Monday that the Supreme Court judgment reaffirming the election of Gov. Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa was an incentive to make the party better. The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr Olisa Metuh, said this in a statement in Abu...
The dredging of River Niger will be extended to Jebba in Kwara, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology, Dr Bukola Saraki, has said. He said this on Monday during a sympathy visit to the Etsu Patigi, Alhaji Ibrahim Umar, over the floo...