Action Aid on Monday called on the National Assembly to undertake constitution amendments that would ``explicitly define the limitations of the powers of state governors in the affairs of the councils''. Dr Hussain Abdul, country director of Ac...
Fifteen ships laden with various cargoes are expected to berth at the Port Harcourt Port in the next five days, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) disclosed this in its ``The Shipping Position’’, ma...
The Chairman, Lagos State House of Assembly (LAHA) Committee on Health Service, Mr Suru Avoseh, on Monday decried the low patronage of Public Health Centres (PHCs) across the state. Avoseh (ACN-Badagry II), spoke in Lagos as the LAHA Committee on Healt...
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the appeal filed against the victory of Idris Wada of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) as Governor of Kogi State. Candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the 2011 governorship election, Prince...
Gov. Kashim Shettima of Borno on Monday signed into law the state university bill, giving a legal backingto the establishment of the institution. The state House of Assembly had some months ago passed the bill with an overwelming majori...
UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday called on the international community to support new Syrian peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi and to ensure that those responsible for war crimes in the conflict-torn country are prosecuted. Ban told the UN Human Rights Co...
A businessman, Fatai Adetunji, who allegedly obtained N8.4 million under false pretences, was on Monday charged before a Tinubu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos. Adetunji, 43, who resides at No. 5, Odunfa St., Lagos Island, is standing trial on a thre...
The Abia government says it will soon begin the dredging of Aba River to accommodate bigger vessels. A statement by Chief Eze Chikamnayo, the state Commissioner for Information and Strategy, said on Monday in Umuahia that the dredging was approved on S...
The United Nations Confab headed by the Nigerian Permanent Representative to the world body, Ambassador Joy Ogwu, has submitted the reports of its Second Review Conference of the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Tra...
Armed robbers went on the rampage, yesterday, in broad daylight in Lagos, killing several people, including two policemen inside their patrol vehicle. According to an eyewitness who gave his name as Tayo Adeyeri, the robbers, who drove in two SUVs, a T...
Unless religious intolerance and social injustice are addressed in the northern part of the country, the region will never record significant development politically, socially and economically like its southern counterpart. Prominent academic and legal...
President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, reassured Nigerians that there was no going back on the ongoing privatisation of the power sector, and added that “the transformation has reached the point where ev...
Scott Van Duzer, pizza parlor owner and blood donator, can bench press 350 pounds. So he had no trouble with the 6’1, 176-pound, skinny President Obama. Mr. Obama got a huge lift — literally — from the registered Republican during an ...
Niger State Governor, Muazu Babangida Aliyu, has urged Nigerians not to allow religious differences to serve as a barrier among them but to come together and work for national development. This is just as the Etsu Nupe, Alhaji Yahaya Abubakar, has also...
Kogi State Governor Idris Wada has expressed his administration’s commitment to implement the 2010 white paper on the crisis in the central axis of the state, with a view to restoring permanent peace in the area. He disclosed this at the Governme...