Prof. Lai Olorode, National Commissioner, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has said that the proposed financial autonomy for state Houses of Assembly will guarantee legislative independence. Olorode made the disclosure on Saturda...
Activities at the University of Lagos (Unilag) were at a standstill on Saturday following news of the death of the institution’s Vice Chancellor, Prof. Adetokunbo Sofoluwe. A cross-section of the academic staff who spoke with the News Agency of N...
Some politicians on Saturday in Lagos supported the Federal Government’s decision to dialogue with the Boko Haram sect. The politicians said that the call for dialogue made by Vice President Namadi Sambo at a programme organised by the Nasi...
National Secretary of the opposition Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) Buba Galadima is an engineer and one of the key voices that moved for actualisation of the Jonathan Presidency through the Save Nigeria Group (SNG). However, in this interview w...
Nurses and Allied Medical Workers at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Umuahia, have embarked on an indefinite strike over non-payment of new welfare package approved for medical workers. A check conducted by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspond...
The Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) says four Global System for Mobile (GSM) Communications operators are to pay a cumulative sum of N1.17 billion penalty for poor Quality of Services (QoS). In a statement made available to newsmen on Saturday ...
Gov. Peter Obi of Anambra says his administration will provide a better working environment for civil servants for efficient service delivery. Obi said this in Awka on Friday while declaring open a Workshop for workers in the ...
For rendering poor services to their customers, four Global System for Mobile Communications operators have been ordered by the Nigerian Communications Commission to pay N1.2 billion fine. The GSM operators-MTN, GLO, Airtel and Etisalat, reportedly fai...
The ECOWAS Committee of Chiefs of Defence Staff (CCDS) will meet on Monday to consider modalities for the deployment of troops to Guinea Bissau and Mali. According to a statement from the commission on Friday in Abuja, the move is part ...
Rivers Commissioner for Social Welfare and Rehabilitation, Mr Joe Poroma, has pledged to support the bill before the state House of Assembly on the physically challenged persons. Poroma made the pledge while declaring open a one day public h...
Senate President David Mark has called on members of the Boko Haram Sect to accept Federal Government’s proposal for dialogue. A statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Kola Ologbondiyan, said Mark made...
If the glamorous English Premier League (EPL) over the year didn’t live up to all the media hype ascribed to its as the best league in the world in terms of entertainment and mind boggling of the round leather game, the 2011/2012 season cer...
The Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Professor Adetokunbo Babatunde Sofoluwe is dead. Aged 62, Professor Sofoluwe reportedly slumped during a meeting on friday at the Senate Chambers of the institution. He was rushed to the Lag...
Six; tribulation will, doubtless, affect those engaged in da’wah work. That is Allah’s way of treatment in all the generations that went before. Study the lives of prophets and messengers; were they immune from tribulations and hardships? T...
In a gesture of unyielding compassion, Jennifer Hudson is offering prayers for the man found guilty of murdering her mother, brother, and young nephew. The Academy Award-winning singer and actress wrote in a statement Friday evening that ‘the Lor...