The ECOWAS says it will deploy 600 military and police contingent to Guinea Bissau to address the political crisis in the country. Mrs Salamatu Suleiman, the ECOWAS Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security, disclosed this in an interview ...
Minister of National Planning, Dr Shamsuddeen Usman has said that 17 States’ Statistical Agencies have been linked to the National Data Centre. Usman made this known in Abuja on Monday at a Ministerial Platform in commemoration of Democracy...
Senator Ike Ekweremadu, Speaker of the ECOWAS Parliament, has called on the member-states in the sub-region to intensify efforts at tackling the resurgence of coups and terror in the area. Ekweremadu said this at the First Ordinary Session (2012) of th...
The police in Ekiti State on Monday arrested 19 students of All Souls’ Anglican Grammar School, Ado Ekiti, for alleged involvement in cult activities . Mr Victor Babayemi, the Police Public Relations Officer of the command, said the student...
Sen. Abdullahi Adamu, the Chairman of the National Agricultural Foundation of Nigeria (NAFN) has expressed regret over the low turn out of states at the annual National Agricultural Show. Adamu said this on Monday in Abuja at the stakeholders' meet...
The National Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) on Monday in Ibadan suspended its one-week nationwide strike with effect from Tuesday. Felix Faniran, the Acting National Chairman of JOHESU, announced the suspension at a press c...
A High Court in Okene, Kogi, on Monday ordered the immediate reinstatement of 346 workers under the state civil service who were sacked after a staff audit in 2009. Justice Sunday Otu in his judgement declared that the workers were wrongly sacked, addi...
Ahead of its May 16 re-launch of operations on the Lagos-London route, Air Nigeria on Sunday night received a new Airbus A330-200 which arrived the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja. The aircraft, which was wet-leased from Egypt Air, arrive...
Mr Samson Mafuyai, President of the Plateau State Chapter of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), has rejected a recent declaration by Gov. Jonah Jang that the state’s Local Government system is ``rotten’’. ``Such ...
The Federal Government has renewed its commitment to improving the lives of women, children and persons with disabilities. The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajiya Zainab Maina, made the statement in her presentation at the minister...
Three witnesses summoned to testify in the petition challenging the result of the re run election for Jos North/Bassa Federal Constituency disappeared on Monday shortly after the Election Petition Tribunal began sitting. The action of the witnesses cre...
UNICEF says plans are underway to establish grassroots disaster resilient programmes in the six geo-political zones of the country to ameliorate the effects of climate change. Mr Kannan Nadar, the Officer in Charge in the UNICEF Water Sanitation and Hy...
The FCT Minister, Sen. Bala Mohammed, has directed the Development Control Department of the FCT to remove ``all shanties springing up in the capital. Mohammed who gave the directive in a statement by the ministry's Chief Press Secretary, Mr Mohamm...
Gov. Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State on Monday said sustainable development could only be achieved in Nigeria if its citizens obeyed laws. He spoke when a delegation of the Ikeja Branch of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) led by its Chairman, Mr Taiw...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Monday announced the seizure of 9.5kg of creamy cocaine, valued at N90 million, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja. This was contained in a statement by the agency’s spo...