The Action Congress of Nigeria in Kogi State has concluded arrangements to drag the state commissioner of police, Mr. Marvel Akpoyibo to court, for human rights violation. The chief strategist to Prince Abubakar Audu, Hon. Dino Melaye who disclosed thi...
A new joint security outfit named Operation Thunder has been launched in Akwa Ibom state. Performing the ceremony yesterday at the operational base of the squad in Uruan local government area, Governor Godswill Akpabio said the action was a demonstrati...
Rogue groups in several nations are engaging in cyber warfare, targeting financial and high level technological assets. These attacks create panic in the world financial capitals as they take down websites, infiltrate computers and steal corporate and ...
Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola (SAN), yesterday, continued his rendition of account of his stewardship as he marked his 1,700 days in office. He urged Lagosians to voluntarily pay their taxes in order to provide his administr...
Secretary General, African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP-Group), Dr Mohamed Ibn Chambers, on Sunday endorsed the candidature of Nigeria’s Aisha Abdullahi, for the post of Commissioner for Political Affairs of the AU Comm...
The wife of the President, Mrs Patience Jonathan, yesterday, in Lagos commissioned the new naval ship, NNS THUNDER, a war ship donated to Nigeria by the United States Government. The NNS THUNDER, which was handed over to Nigeria on May 13, 2011, set sa...
The ad-hoc investigative panel of the House of Representatives into the management of subsidy funds failed to sit yesterday because of the absence of members who were away to Kano State following Friday’s multiple bomb blasts. Some agencies who h...
A former Imo State federal commissioner at the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMFAC), Dr. Otuokere Njaka, yesterday, in Abuja, called on the Governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, to help revive the Njaka Community Medi...
Arsene Wenger was blasted by his own fans — and even skipper Robin van Persie — as chants of ‘You don’t know what you’re doing’ echoed around the Emirates. Supporters lost patience with Arsenal’s boss after his...
Nigeria has 60 out of 600 polio cases worldwide, the Minister of State for Health, Dr Muhammad Ali Pate, has said. Speaking at the National Consultative Stakeholders’ Conference on Polio Eradication in Nigeria, organised by the National Pri...
A governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State, Orufa Jusline Boloubo, has asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to declare the nomination of Hon. Seriake Dickson as the PDP governorship candidate for the February 11, 2012...
President Goodluck Jonathan, has appointed Engr. Kenneth Achugbu, as the new chief executive officer of the Rural Electrification Agenda (REA). The REA was established in 2006 following the passage into law of the Electric Power Sector Reform Act 2005,...
A University don, Professor Femi Shaka, has accused the Federal and State Governments of deceiving the youths of the country with promises of creating job opportunities that will never come. Shaka, who is a lecturer in the Department of Theatre Arts, U...
Against calls for military action against Boko Haram, the leader of Course 34 of Command and Staff College, Jaji, Kaduna State, Navy Commodore Ferguson Buvai, yesterday, urged the Federal Government to toe the path of peace and dialogue in handling the...
Imo State students in tertiary institutions would soon join their counterparts in the primary and post primary schools in benefiting from the free education offered by Governor Rochas Okorocha administration in the state. Governor Rochas Ok...