The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Kwara has said that it will appeal the verdict of the Election Petitions Tribunal on Kwara South Senatorial District.The party said this in a statement issued in Ilorin sitting in Ilorin, ...
President Goodluck Jonathan has charged Nigerian universities to key into the transformation agenda of the federal government.Jonathan gave the charge yesterday in his address at the 27th convocation ceremony of the University of Ilorin.He said with 11...
Kogi State Governor Ibrahim Idris is to lead the campaign of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the December gubernatorial election with Prince Olusola Akanmode emerging as director-general.The governor, who disclosed this at the Government Ho...
There are many predictions about how the world will end. The two dominant religions in the world- Islam and Christianity- believe that when the end time is near, a lot of strange things such as wars, killings, rituals, pestilence and violence will be o...
The chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) and Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi, has said that although the federal government has the right to institute the Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF), states should be given the latitude to access ...
The failure of the minister of finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to honour the invitation of the House of Representatives investigative hearing committee on the alleged non-remittance of N450 billion by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)...
Following the one-week warning to all Muslim communities resident in the Niger Delta to vacate the land by a Warri-based group known as Egbesu Mightier Fraternity, the Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI) yesterday called on the federal government to, as ...
The National Assembly has moved to forestall the industrial action planned by academic and non-academic staff of tertiary institutions in the country.Already, a bill seeking to amend the provisions of the Universities (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 199...
TThe Nigerian Communications Commisssion (NCC) may stop the three major mobile operators, MTN, Glo and Airtel, from further sales of SIM cards by end of November if they did not comply with the key performance indicators set by the NCC to improve...
The Senate yesterday unanimously approved night journey and movement of commercial vehicles on Nigeria highways. It had earlier rejected a motion to outlaw same a fortnight ago.The Senate formerly unveiled the lists of new board members of the reconsti...
The Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Lafia, Nasarawa State, yesterday reserved its judgment in a petition by former Nasarawa State Governor Aliyu Doma of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), challenging the election of Governor Umaru&n...
The Jigawa State Government has declared that it would not pay the N18,000 minimum wage because it was not captured in the state's 2011 budget. Gov. Sule Lamido, who disclosed this while addressing newsmen in Government House in Dutse...
If you had seen the four lads sipping pints in a Kuala Lumpur hotel bar, you might have thought – if you couldn't see their faces – they were just four Irish lads, abroad for work, catching up over a beer; chatting about going home, abo...
As part of its ‘Catch Them Young’ programme, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) is organising information technology quiz competition for all secondary schools in Nigeria. The first stage is f...
For those, who attended primary school when the Universal Primary Education (UPE) programme was introduced, nothing could be heart-warming than the experience of those good old years. It was perhaps, the golden era in which government’s attempt t...