The Senate has commenced debate on the general principles of the 2012 budget presented to the joint session of the National Assembly by President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday.Key issues raised by the Senators included non- implementation of previous bu...
National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) has restored the accreditation of the programmes of the Institute of Management and Technology (IMT), Enugu. Special Adviser to the Enugu State Governor on Information Communication Technology (ICT), Mr. Ok...
Northern Youths under the auspices of Arewa Youth Forum (AYF), yesterday, warned Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole to stop playing politics with the death of former President Umaru Yar’Adua. The group also told him to stop abusing the sensibili...
The House of Representatives has mandated its joint committee on HIV/Aids,Tuberculosis and Malaria control and Donor Agencies to investigate sources and utilisation of funds of NGOs involved in HIV activities. The inquiry is also to cover determination...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday expressed regret that the 20 licensed private refinery owners have not been able to commence operations in Nigeria because of government’s price control mechanism on fuel. The president, who was represented b...
Former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Nuhu Ribadu and the national secretary of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Buba Galadima, have expressed divergent views on the implications of the N921 billion being prop...
The House of Representatives on Thursday passed an amendment Bill which puts the retirement age of academic staff of universities in the professional cadre to 70 and that of non-academic to 65. The bill also seeks to limit the tenure of principal offic...
The Judicial Commission of Inquiry set up to look into the activities of the 17 local government councils in Enugu State from January 1999 to December 31, 2007 yesterday, disclosed that over N11 billion (N11,901,545,490.00) of allocations to local gove...
Senators yesterday, vented their spleen on most aspects of the N4.7trillion 2012 budget just presented to the House, especially the proposed N921billion for security, which they declared was too high. Most senators, who spoke during the commencement of...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has warned political parties in the state against the use of armed youths during their campaign activities and on Election Day. The state Chairman of the commission, Alhaji Ahmed Mahuta, gave the war...
The Lagos State Chairman of of the Motorcycle Operators Association of Lagos State (MOALS), Comrade Tijani Pekis, has warned that a ban of the operations of commercial motorcycles in the state would result in the loss of more than two million jobs. Pek...
The Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence Dr Sa’ad Abubakar, has said that the effort of the present administration in transforming the nation through rehabilitation and restructuring of national edifices is a demonstration of the federal government&rsq...
The 29-member stakeholders’ committee, constituted by the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Dahiru Musdapher to deliberate on the problems affecting the judiciary in recent times, as well as proffer implementable recommendations that will r...
A housewife, Yahadasu Sani, of Tudun Wada area in Kaduna on Wednesday at a Kaduna Sharia Court, insisted on returning the dowry paid by her husband, Danjuma Ali, to end their five months of marriage. Sani was at the court to seek the dissolution of the...
As more aspirants continue to emerge to vie for the office of the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, the political group, North-East Movement for Good Leadership Forum, yesterday endorsed the former secretary to the government of the fe...