The Ministry of Water Resources says it has put in place water sector roadmap in line with the transformation agenda of the Federal government. Specifically,the roadmap was meant to ensure that water reaches all communities in the country,and that wome...
The Supreme Court yesterday adjourned till May 25 judgement in an appeal by a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abia State, Chief Ikechi Emenike, against Governor Theodore Orji also of the PDP. Emenike had asked the apex court to set a...
The former Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, yesterday, reacted to the confiscation of his properties by the Ogun State Government and said the action was an assault on the rule of law. Daniel in a statement issued in Abeokuta and signed by...
The Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Ekiti State, Mr. Dayo Adelaja yesterday advised the former governor of Ekiti State, Mr Segun Oni and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) not to challenge at the Supreme Court the ruling of a Court of Appe...
The lawmaker representing Gwarzo/kabo federal constituency of Kano State in the House of Representatives, Hon. Sule Garo, has congratulated the state governor, Dr. Rabiu Kwankwaso, for his victory at the Supreme Court which yesterday dismissed th...
The Supreme Court, in two separate judgments yesterday, upheld the elections of Governors Babangida Aliyu of Niger State and Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso of Kano State both of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). While delivering the lead judgment on the...
The reconstituted Elections Petition Tribunal sitting in Makurdi, Benue State yesterday, dismissed the petition filed by the governorship candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Prof. Steven Ugba challenging the election of Governor Gabriel ...
The Governor of Niger State, Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, has described the verdict of the Supreme Court that yesterday upheld his victory at the April 2011 governorship election as a confirmation that his administration got the mandat...
The Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) , Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State has said that State Peer Review Mechanism (SPRM) introduced in the country by the forum last year was not a score card to rate th...
Plateau State Governor, Jonah Jang, yesterday, promised to collaborate with the Attorney General of Northern States in the proposal to sanction clerics who made inflammatory statements in the course of preaching. Jang gave the assurance when National A...
Vice President Arc. Mohammed Namadi Sambo has reiterated federal government’s determination to end the menace of terrorism in the country. He therefore, urged all Nigerians to be part of the efforts to combat this new trend of criminality in the ...
Worried by the outbreak of Lassa fever in about 12 states in Nigeria which has recorded almost 400 suspected cases and claimed no fewer than 40 lives, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) is making efforts to stop the disease from spreading to o...
The Director of Energy, Markets and Security, International Energy Agency (IEA), Didier Houssin, has said Nigeria would be among the oil exporting nations that would help to cushion the adverse effect of losses in the international oil market due...
Chevron said it has reduced the gas inferno in the Niger Delta region to a considerable level and that the fire would be extinguished in two weeks time. According to the company, it will achieve this in record time by channeling the burning gas i...
Despite being blessed with abundant human and natural resources, which are the basic ingredients for a prosperous nation, Nigeria, regrettably, suffers from resource curse. Industry chiefs, at the recently concluded 2012 Nigeria Oil and Gas (NOG) confe...