The minister of education, Prof Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufai, has cautioned universities on the award of honorary doctorate degrees which she said is not in the best interest of the education sector The minister who spoke yesterday during a meeting with all v...
The Police in Akwa Ibom State yesterday paraded a man, 18, who was alleged to have broken into a church in Eket south and stole the church’s tithe. Johnson Monday Umoetuk, a native of Idua Eket was arrested by the police for allegedly...
The House of Representatives has disclosed plans to trim the recurrent expenditure in the 2012 budget proposal of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA). This is part of measures to ensure accelerated infrastructural development in the FCT...
The National President of Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, Alhaji Yerima Shettima, has blamed political leaders in the North who held on to power for 35 years without positively impacting on the lives of the people in the zone for the frustration p...
The lingering dispute bordering on the displacement of indigenes of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), may soon be resolved as a bill for an act to establish the FCT Resettlement, Compensation and Rehabilitation Board, has passed through the second r...
A Yemeni draft law granting immunity to the outgoing president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, from prosecution over the killing of protesters was amended yesterday to limit the protection his aides would enjoy, a minister said. The draft law, which has been heav...
Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke of the Micheal Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike, Abia, has commended the Senate for passing the University Miscellaneous Provision Act on the retiring age of professors. Osodeke said that passing the law was one of the ne...
Gov. Liyel Imoke of Cross River says the state government will utilise, meaningfully, the state's share from the excess crude account. Imoke gave the assurance Thursday in Calabar at a press briefing, soon after getting the nod from the South-South...
The Kogi House of Assembly has set up a four-man ad hoc committee to monitor the implementation of the N97 per litre pump price of petrol, with an appeal to marketers to open for business. The House constituted the committee at its plenary on Wednesday...
Some consumers across states on Wednesday urged the Federal Government to establish a price regulatory agency to regulate the prices of foods items in view of the new petrol price regime of N97 per litre. In Lagos, a respondent said in spite of t...
Gov. Rauf Aregbesola of Osun on Wednesday urged the Federal Government to withdraw the soldiers deployed in Lagos as a matter of urgency, to avoid a repeat of what he calls the “nation’s ugly history”. Aregbesola, in a sta...
The Police on Wednesday shot dead two armed robbery suspects in a shoot-out, Mr. Suleiman Abba, the Rivers State Commissioner of Police, said. Abba told newsmen in Port Harcourt that the Police also smashed a bomb making syndicate during th...
Staff of Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) in Abuja on Wednesday staged a peaceful protest against the order by the Minister of Power, Prof. Bart Nnaji, to transfer them out of Abuja. The workers gathered outside the company’s corporate off...
The popular saying that ‘If music is the food of love, let’s play on’ has been the case in Lagos since the commencement of protests over government’s decision to remove petroleum subsidy. Nigerians of all works of life converged...
Archbishop John Onaiyekan, the Catholic Archbishop of Abuja has called for greater understanding between Christians and Muslims, to enhance peace and unity in the country. Onaiyekan made the appeal on Wednesday in Abuja during the “Interfaith For...