Following the spate of criticism that greeted the recent announcement of Dame Patience Jonathan, among the list of 19 newly appointed Permanent Secretaries in Bayelsa State, the state government has defended its action by saying the appointment was mad...
Incumbent governor and candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), in yesterday’s governorship election in Edo state, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has warned that there will be trouble if the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) di...
Speaker of the House of Representatives Aminu Tambuwal has condemned the Friday attack on a mosque in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. The action was callous and unacceptable, he said. He urged any aggrieved persons or groups to embrace dialogue rat...
The residents of Nyanya in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, in the past two weeks have been persistently rattled and terrorised by serial robbery attacks which have forced some of them to flee their homes at nights. A senior special adviser to a s...
Tragedy struck yesterday in Wurukum, a suburb of Makurdi, the Benue State capital, when it was alleged that a 15-year-old boy was killed by heavy rain that wrecked havoc in the Food Basket state, just as no fewer than 1,000 houses witnessed flooding. T...
The Assistant Director of Monitoring and Enforcement, Development Control Department of Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC), Nathaniel Atebije, has given strong reasons why Mpape, a settlement in Bwari Area Council, is the major target for the...
Like the dreaded cabal in the oil sector, a lot of selfish interests are fingered as being behind the daily traffic hold-ups at Mararaba. These interests range from the genuine desire and necessity to survive, to greed and outright mischief. Unfo...
An Arik Airline Boeing 737-700 with registration No 5NMJI on a routine flight to Lagos yesterday brushed the wing of a parked Nigerian Air Force C-130 (NAF 917) at the Yakubu Gowon Airport, Heipang, Jos. The incident happened at about 13:45hrs (1.45pm)...
The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, on Saturday, upheld the election of Governor Idris Wada as the executive governor of Kogi State in the 2011 election. The two appeals challenging the validity of Governor Wada’s election were dismissed by the ...
Reports that the Northern region is behind the rising level of insecurity in the country has led a group in the North to speak out on the region’s position. The Zumunta Incorporated, a Northern people’s forum, has stated that the North is n...
In the twilight of his fairy tale political career Chief Anthony Akhakon Anenih, a key arrowhead of the Peoples Democratic Party’s drive to retrieve power in Edo State, faces arguably his toughest political battle today when the governorship poll...
New facts yesterday emerged on the reasons behind the appointment of the wife of the President, Dame Patience Jonathan as a Permanent Secretary in the State Civil Service by the administration of Hon. Seriake Dickson. Dame Patience Jonathan was appoint...
Mr. Sikiru Shehu is Registrar/Chief Executive of Computer Professionals’ Registration Council of Nigeria (CPN), the federal government agency that regulates the practice of information technology (IT). In this interview with CHIMA AKWAJA, Shehu, ...
He was ‘soft’ looking, very harmless in disposition, but Senator Gyang Dalyop Dantog was one of the few senators who bestrode the Senate chambers with so much gait and candour. Behind that facade is bullet. He was a strong-willed representa...
Party agents, combined team of soldiers and Policemen took over the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC as non-sensitive materials are conveyed to all the 18 local government areas of Edo State amid tight security. LEADERSHIP ...