Following media reports that he canvassed votes for incumbent Edo Governor Adams Oshiomhole, former Governor of Edo State, Professor Oserheimen Osunbor, has refuted some of the comments ascribed to him, just as he maintained that the performance of Osh...
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has denied the PDP’s accusation that the party was behind the protests by the students of University of Lagos (UNILAG) against the federal government’s decision to change the institution’s name to ...
A report by international audit firm, KPMG yesterday revealed that Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s (NNPC) inefficiency in dealing with demurrage, cost the country of 65million dollars between 2007 and December2010. The audit firm whose ...
The Chairman Niger State Action Congress of Nigeria ( ACN ),Captain Abubakar Isah Mokwa has said that the planned merger between the party and Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), was the only way the needed change within the nation’s pol...
The remains of the late vice chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) now Moshood Abiola University (MAU), Prof. Babatunde Shofoluwe was yesterday laid to rest at the Ikoyi Vaults, Lagos. The burial rites began since Friday, May 25, 2012 with a s...
The Government of Enugu State has completed arrangements for the acquisition of Nigerian Coal Corporation Headquarters along Okpara Avenue, Enugu, at a cost of N200million and Colliery Hospital Complex along old Onitsha road, New Market, also own...
A 300-level student of Physics and Astronomy of University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), Mr. Onyebuchi Okonkwo yesterday committed suicide over a yet-to-be ascertained reason. A source told our correspondent that the deceased hung himself in an uncompleted...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has adopted the National Identification Number (NIN) as the only acceptable means of identification for institutions across the country from January next year. The adoption of NIN, the apex bank said, was in a bid to e...
The fines imposed by the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) on the four operators of Global System for Communication (GSM) for quality of service breach have reached N1.24 billion even as a meeting called at the instance of the operators failed to...
The Lagos State Government has reinstated the all 778 medical doctors it sacked a few weeks ago. This was made known in a statement from the state government on Thursday. The doctors were sacked after an ultimatum given them by the state government to ...
A former Ambassador of the United States to Nigeria who is also a notable critic of the Jonathan-led administration, Ambassador John Campbell has said that Oil Subsidy in Nigeria became very popular because it is the only means by which most Nigerians ...
Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, PDP National Chairman has urged members of the party to work collectively to find solution to the country’s challenges instead of lamenting on issues. Tukur spoke on Wednesday in Abuja at the inauguration of a 50...
Sen. Walid Jubril, the PDP Board of Trustee (BOT) Secretary, says campaign for the country's president in 2015 ``is too early and diversionary.’’ He told newsmen on Wednesday in Abuja that Nigerians would determine the country`s preside...
Alhaji Inuwa Garba, the Speaker, Gombe State House of Assembly, said on Wednesday that the House had passed 23 bills. The speaker, who is also the Chairman, Conference of Speakers of Nigeria, said this in Gombe in an interview with newsmen. ``From the ...
An expatriate working with Borini Prono Construction Company has been kidnapped in Ilorin, Kwara State. The victim, who was said to have gone to inspect an ongoing road construction at Bishop Smith road, was whisked away by his abductors at about 5:30 ...