As part of efforts to end youth restiveness in the Niger-Delta Region, the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua issued a proclamation in 2009 for the commencement of a comprehensive demilitarisation of the area and a return to serenity. Tagged Amne...
Tiger Woods returns to US PGA Tour action at this week’s Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte, North Carolina, confident he has solved the ball-striking problems which plagued him at this month’s Masters. The former world number one failed...
The Federal Government has confirmed that 9,000 out of 11,000 causal workers in PHCN across the country, a union leader said. The Chairman of National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE), FCT branch, Mr Wisdom Nwachukwu, made the confirmation while a...
Following recent reports of abduction from commercial vehicles, the Zamfara Government has banned all illegal motor parts in the state, the Commissioner for Transport, Alhaji Nasiru Zarumai, said. Zarumai told the News agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Gusau ...
The U.S. Government has agreed to consider the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project’s (SERAP) request to establish a process for the sharing of proceeds from foreign bribery fines. This was made known in a letter signed by Mr Robert K...
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have called on the Federal Government to carry out urgent reforms in the NNPC. This they argued would enable the corporation to function efficiently. Alhaji Abdulwaheed Omar, NLC Presiden...
As Nigerian workers markede this year’s May Day, the Federal Government has been advised to tackle the security problems facing the country. In his May Day speech in Abuja on Tuesday, NLC President Abdulwahed Omar said the congress condemned the ...
The Kwara chapters of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) have urged the Federal Government to rise decisively to the security challenge in the country. Comrade Farouk Akanbi of NLC and Comrade Israel Adebisi of TUC made th...
President Goodluck Jonathan has appealed to Nigerian workers to complement government’s efforts to ensure rapid socio-economic development by maintaining highest ideals of quality service delivery. Jonathan made the call on Tuesday in Abuja in a ...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Tuesday urged the Federal Government to review some of its policies which, it said, tended to worsen the unemployment and inflationary rates in the country. Mr Abdulwahed Omar, NLC president, made the call at the 20...
The extremist group, Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati Wal-Jihadl, popularly called Boko Haram, today named more media houses and staff as targets of their attack. In an 18 minutes video, the group threatened to attack more media houses, naming ...
Former Minister of Defence, General T Y. Danjuma yesterday painted a very gloomy picture of the Nigeria security situation declaring succinctly that the "country is on fire", but was optimistic that the country would survive it. Danjuma as bl...
Armed robbers besieged the sleepy town of Ikare-Akoko in Ondo State on Monday night and used dynamites to blow open the security gates of three banks. According to the Police Public Relations officer in the state, Mr. Adeniran Aremu, who confirmed the ...
Traders within the FCT on Tuesday in Abuja made brisk business in selling their wares at the Eagle Square, venue of the 2012 May Day Celebration. The traders had a field day with the presence of workers who were in their thousands at the venue. A cross...
Police in Lagos on Tuesday said they have arrested a Lebanese and his Nigerian counterpart who allegedly robbed one Aliyu Sanni of 10,000 dollars and stabbed him to death. The state police command's spokesman, SP Joseph Jaiyeoba, told the News Agen...