The Peoples Democratic Party in the South West has said it will appeal Friday’s ruling of a Lagos High Court nullifying the party’s Zonal Congress held in Osogbo, Osun State on March 21, 2012. Reacting to the court ruling, the PDP said in a...
As part of the efforts to make the Oguta Blue Lake of treasure the greatest tourism centre in Africa, the Imo State government has reached agreement with the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) to site a movie village at the lake side. The State Governor, Ro...
Three journalists covering the Edo Government House lost their lives on Saturday afternoon when a lorry crashed into Gov. Adams Oshiomhole’s convoy. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the governor and his entourage were headi...
President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday towed a different part from his National Security Adviser (NSA), Gen. Andrew Owoye Azazi, when he disagreed with him out-rightly on a statement credited to him in the media in which he blamed udemocrati...
The interim President of Guinea Bissau, Raimundo Pereira and Prime Minister Carlos Gomes were released by the country’s military junta and flown to Abidjan on Friday. The West Africa correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that ...
No fewer than 18 people were injured on Saturday afternoon when a commercial bus lost control and crashed into a pole at the Abuja city gate, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The bus, an 18-seater with registrati...
Dr Ore Falomo, the Chairman, Lagos State Medical Advisory Committee, has warned doctors in the state who are currently on strike that their action is ``a flagrant abuse of their professional calling’’. He told journalists in Lagos on Friday...
Six footballers were on Saturday arrested by the police for failing to observe the Environmental Sanitation stipulated by the Lagos State Government. The exercise is observed on the last Saturday of every month and it begins from 7 a.m. ...
A Consultant Gyneacologist, Dr Peter Adefuye, has called on the Federal Government to come up with an effective cancer control policy that will cater for cancer patients in Nigeria. He made the call at the beginning of the Cancer Awareness Campaign, or...
Prof. Emmanuel Ezeani of University of Nigeria, Nsukka, has urged the Federal Government to reposition the country’s local government councils to fast-track development at the grassroots level. Ezeani made the call on Friday in Ns...
Gov. Ibrahim Dankwambo of GombeState has assured the GombeStateUniversity community of adequate security. Dankwambo gave the assurance on Friday in Gombe, while reacting to Thursday's bomb blast at the SenateBuilding of the university. He...
NAFDAC on Friday warned the public of fake methylated spirits in the market, as it paraded two suspects who were allegedly caught with N72,000 worth of the product in Onitsha. Mr Benson Kine, a Deputy Director in NAFDAC, told journalists ...
The Kaduna State Government has advised residents to report any incidentof suspected Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM) in the state. The government gave the advice when it announced a five-point prevention strategy against the outbreak of t...
President Goodluck Jonathan is yet to complete one year in office of the four-year mandate given to him in 2011. However, tension is already amounting over whether he is eligible to contest in 2015 or whether power would return to the geo-political Nor...
Governor Ibrahim Shehu Shema of Katsina, in this interview with Muazu Elazeh, speaks on what his administration is doing to ensure relative peace in the state and steps he has taken to move the state forward. Can you tell us some of the programmes you ...