Indication emerged yesterday that the chief justice of Nigeria, Justice Dahiru Musdapher might have replaced the minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke, as a member of the committee to advise the Supreme Court on the tenure elongation suit before it. Adok...
Delta State governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has called on the political class and various ethnic groups in the state not to allow their selfish interest to mar the 2015 polls.The governor who gave the advice when the people of Anioma nation paid him a...
No fewer than 550 pilgrims from Niger State who paid their Hajj fare through a private travel and tours agency yesterday protested the failure of the firm to airlift them to Saudi Arabia for this year’s Hajj. The protest by the stranded pilgrims ...
The Hope Arewa Development Initiative (HADI) has kicked against move by the Kaduna State government to expand the sum of N238 million to purchase 34 units of Toyota Camry cars for the 34 members of the state House of Assembly. The group, wh...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday dispelled report in the media that he failed to attend the Commonwealth Forum in Perth, Western Australia where he was to deliver a scheduled speech, saying the said report was mischievous and misleading. A stateme...
As the April 26, governorship election petition tribunal sitting in Asaba, Delta State reserved today for the final adoption of written addresses by counsel to the petitioners and respondents, the tribunal was however inundated with evidence of massive...
Kano State government has announced it readiness to computerise all operations of the local government areas as part of its efforts to reinvigorate its service for efficient and effective performance. A press release signed by an assistance director, M...
The minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Sen. Bala Mohammed, has appealed to the House of Representatives to approve the proposal by the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) to establish the federal capital revenue board in order...
The chairman of the Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC), Ambassador Ahmed Al-Gazali has observed among others that the problem limiting the nation’s development and tendency of realising Vision 202020 is the poor quality of service delivery i...
The Imo State government, in partnership with KWAKAF, is to train 60 Imo State indigenes in higher institutions on a six-month internship programme in the Centre for Energy and Environment Engineering, University of Maryland, United States. Spea...
To aid easy access to health care in rural communities, especially as it concerns curbing the upsurge in maternal mortality, the federal government has initiated a midwifery scheme.Records available indicate that women and children in rural...
The Middle Belt Youth Democratic Forum(MBYDF) has said the emergence of Chief Henry Ojuola, a member of Kogi State House of Assembly as running mate to Prince Abubakar Audu has brightened the chances of the Action Congress of Nigeria(ACN) to win the fo...
President Goodluck Jonathan and other leaders who are meeting in Perth, Australia for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) have agreed to a series of reforms to strengthen the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) in dealing with...
Nigeria’s beach volleyball men team A and B, yesterday brightened their chances of playing at the 2012 London Olympic Games with a two straight set defeat of their Burundian counterpart in the opening match of the zonal phase in round two of the ...
President Goodluck Jonathan failed to show upAustralia when as hefailed to appear for two scheduled speeches at the business side of the on going Commonwealth Head of Governments Meeting (CHOGM). No explanation was given for his absence by the Ni...