Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu has advocated that Nigeria dedicate 26 percent of its annual budget to funding education in order to revamp the sector and accelerate Nigeria’s quest for national development.Senator Ekweremadu made the call...
Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Anayo Okorocha will today sign a new minimum wage of N20, 000 agreement with the organised labour in the state.This is scheduled to hold at the state secretariat on Portharcourt road, Owerri.The amount represents...
The Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Benin City, the Edo State capital, Saturday, threw out the petition brought before it by Mr. Philip Oshioma Esede of the Labour Party (LP) challenging the election of the incumbent lawmaker, Hon Philip Shuaibu...
Chairman-elect of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Yaba Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Olajide Jimoh has blamed the federal government for the lack of development at the local government level, calling for a change in the revenue sharing...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) House of Representatives member representing Balanga/Billiri, Federal Constituency of Gombe State, Hon. Yusuf Manu Swa, was yesterday declared winner in the just concluded by-election conducted by the Independen...
Financial experts yesterday advocated the adoption of more drastic measures by the Central Bank of Nigeria to stem further slide of the Nigerian currency. The experts, Dr Godwin Owo and Alhaji Abubakar Abdulkadir spoke in an exclusive interview w...
Unknown gunmen in the early hours of Friday attacked Fadiya Village, area of Zangon Kataf local government in Kaduna State and injured two persons. The two persons, Julius Mathew aged 16 and Yohanna Emmanuel who were njured from the gunshots, LEADERSHI...
As Lagosians trooped to the polls yesterday to decide who takes over the mantle of leadership at the local government level in the state, the Lagos State Governor Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has charged residents of the state to remain peaceful and accept t...
Delta State government has approved the construction of new schools in communities having only missionary schools to replace those handed over to the missions to enable them have choice over which to attend. The State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan wh...
The authorities of the Joint Military Task Force, code named Operation Restore Hope, yesterday accused some politicians in Bayelsa State of trying to prevail on Defense Chiefs to sack the leadership of the task Force over frivolous allegations of suppo...
Katsina State Government has expended two billion naira in the last three years to boost science and technical education in the state, executive secretary of science and technical education board, Bala Isyaku Mashi has said. Speaking to newsmen in Kats...
Sports Minister, Suleiman Yusuf, has said the Federal Government planned to concession the two National stadia in Lagos and Abuja under the new Public Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement. Suleiman told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Addis Ababa,...
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has described the successful showcasing of an international submarine cable known as Glo1by telecommunication giant, Globacom Plc, as a feat worthy of commendation. The teleco...
The former Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Lagos (Unilag), Prof. Lai Olurode, has said that the death of Libya’s former President, Col. Muammar Gaddafi, is a lesson to sit-tight African leaders. Olurode told the News Agency of Nig...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) says it is not against any meeting with the Federal Government, its ministers or agents, but insists that such meeting must have a clear agenda.Mr. Owei Lakemfa, the acting General Secretary of NLC, said this yesterday...