FRED ITUA examines the recent report of the Presidential Committee on the Rationalization and Restructuring of Federal Government Parastatals, Commissions and Agencies which recommended the pruning of statutory agencies from 263 to 161 to reduce govern...
Bhoja Air said all 127 people onboard one of its jets were killed yesterday in a crash near Islamabad, Pakistan. It was that nation’s worst air disaster in almost two years. The plane, a Boeing Co. 737-200 with 118 passengers and 9 crew members, ...
Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Agency (NERC), Dr. Sam Amadi, has linked the recent incidents of power outage across the country to the poor tariff system in the Nigerian Electricity Supply (NESI). He maintained that the recent shortage...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested 48 illicit drug dealers and impounded 106. 86 kilogrammes of hard drugs in the last three months. Similarly, the agency arrested 100 persons in connection with the consumption of illicit drugs withi...
The persistent inability of Nigerians across the world to access the official websites of government ministries, departments and agencies, MDAs, has continued to generate negative reactions across board even as no efforts are being made by the authorit...
Fear gripped residents of Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital when rockets accidently fired from the Nigeria Air Force Base, landed yesterday in Woji, a community in the outskirts of the city. Residents of Woji said a loud explosion was heard at 7....
For the first time in the last three years, Akure, the Ondo State capital, yesterday witnessed a violent clash that turned the ceremony meant to honour the third executive governor of the state, Chief Adebayo Adefarati into a bloody scene. The memorial...
The stage is now set for the Local Government elections in Ogun State as the Ogun State Independent Electoral Commssion, OGSIEC yesterday announced July 21, 2012 as the date fixed for the conduct of elections into elective offices for the 20 Local Gove...
Kaduna State governor, Sir Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, has tasked religious leaders in the state to work together with a view to unmasking those fueling crisis while pretending to be clerics. Yakowa stated this while speaking at a one-day seminar organised...
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, has said the commission will spare no effort to make the 2015 general elections not only the best in Nigeria’s political history, but also the most accepta...
An environmentalist, Dr. Kabir Abdulkadir, has added his voice to the growing number of people who believe that the Boko Haram insurgence and other security challenges in the Northern part of the country have more to do with issues other than religion....
In continuation of his visit to districts under his emirate, the Emir of Argungu Alhaji Sama’ila Muhammad Mera has called for more support in the fight against polio and other child killers diseases. The Emir, who made the call while addressing t...
The World Bank and the French Development Agency (AFD) have agreed to sponsor the second phase of Rural Access Mobility Project (RAMP II) with 3.6 million dollars. Mr Ifeanyi Okereke, the Development Communication Officer of RAMP, made this known to th...
Nigeria transferred N474.34 billion to its Excess Crude Account (ECA) in February and March, Dr Yerima Ngama, the Minister of State for Finance, said in Abuja on Friday. He told to newsmen after the monthly Federation Account Allocation Committee meeti...
Malam Mohammed Garba, the National President of NUJ, has said that the insurance policy initiated by the union will become compulsory for all working journalists in Nigeria from 2013. Garbamade the statement in Lafia on Friday while address...