The first lady and wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, has declared that the history of Nigeria would never be complete without the late leader of secessionist Biafra Republic, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. Mrs. Jonathan, who stated this ...
Governor Adams Oshiomhole has called on civil society groups to be vigilant, because the opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has perfecting plans to rig the 2012 guber election. Speaking at a reception organised for him in Benin City b...
Bayelsa State Governor, Chief Timipre Sylva, over the weekend, appointed new aides in the wake of the unceremonious resignation of some political appointees from his administration. The resignation and appointement were a follow up to his battle with t...
Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has set up a seven-member committee to try some of its members, including former Deputy National Chairman of the party, Chief Olabode George, for anti-party activities. At statement from the par...
Pharm. Ahmed Tijjani Mora, Registrar/Chief Executive Officer, Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN), explains in this interview with WINIFRED OGBEBO that Nigerian pharmacists are as capable as their foreign counterparts and that they produce 40 pe...
Nollywood certainly can boast of personalities. At the inception of an infantile industry when no hope was available and people doubted any glimmer of development, men like Richard Mofe Damijo stepped in and held high the mantle of pragmatism with conf...
The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) yesterday stated that the Nigerian people would not be deterred by the provision of hefty security vote in its determination to resist oppression. Also, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) would be meeting tomorr...
The police in Kano yesterday uncovered a site where suspected Boko Haram disciples manufacture bombs, just as the dreaded sect is making efforts to shift its operational base to the ancient city. The locally manufactured bombs, according to the police,...
United States President Barack Obama who relied heavily on the social media to boost his presidential campaign in 2008, has banned his daughters from using Facebook, a United Kingdom (UK’s) Mail Online reports. The ‘First Social Media Presi...
The Kaduna State Police Command has called on the people of the state to disregard “rumours” going round that the members of the Boko Haram Islamic sect are planning to unleash attack on nine communities in Kaduna, the state capital. Indica...
Edo State governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has asked his erstwhile trade union colleagues to have a rethink of their current opposition to the power sector reform and adopt a strategy that will benefit workers of PHCN and the nation at large. The go...
Several Abuja residents enjoy eating beef, but do not know the source, Michael Oche and Kehinde Ajobiewe, visited the Suleja abattoir which supplies meat to major parts of the city and write on its filthy state. A drive through the broad road th...
Based on the average prices for the month of December, 2011, the exchange rate and other indices used to determine the price of petrol by the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), Nigerians will have to pay as much as N140 per lit...
The House of Representatives Committee on Donor Agencies has begun an investigative session into allegations that government ministries, agencies and an undisclosed non-governmental organisations have diverted huge foreign donor funds meant to fight ma...
The dreaded Boko Haram sect yesterday sent a threat letter to Kano State Government, warning her of a planned attack over what it termed the indiscriminate arrests of its members under the pretext that they were thieves and armed robbers. This latest d...