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The Senate yesterday said it never at any time barred President Goodluck Jonathan from drawing from the 2011 Budget beyond December 31. It Instead said it had rather empowered the President to extend the spending to March 31, 2012. Ch...
The Federal Government has assured Nigerians that in less than 24 months, the current refineries in the country would become 90 per cent operational, and that the application of the money saved from the petroleum subsidy would generate over one million...
The Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology yesterday summoned the management of Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) and officials of the ministry of environment over the oil spill in Bonga deep water facility off the coast of Nigeria. ...
The Appeal Court Tribunal Sitting in Enugu has nullified the election of Mr Andy Uba as senator representing Anambra South district during the April National Assembly Elections held in the state. Also, the tribunal led by ...
The findings of the 2010 Integrated Biological and Behavioural Survey among the high risk groups in Nigeria, show increase of HIV prevalence among men who have sex with men (MSM). The Minister of Health, Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu, said this at a meet...
Alhaji Abubakar Audu, the ACN candidate in the Dec. 3 governorship election in Kogi, has filed a petition challenging the result of the election as announced by INEC.Audu, who filed the petition on Wednesday at the state High Court complex in Lokoja, r...
The National working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA ) on Thursday in Abuja announced a 14-man committee for the burial of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegu-Ojukwu. A statement, signed by Chief Ifeanacho Oguejofor, the party’s ...
The National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) has said that the number of persons on Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) will increase from 400,000 to 600,000 in 2012.Prof. John Idoko, Director General, made this known in Abuja on Wednesday during an en...
The Police said in Lokoja on Wednesday that they are on the trail of members of a robbery gang that robbed the branches of G.T. Bank, UBA and Intercontinental Bank in Okene on Tuesday. The Kogi police command spokesman, Mr Ajayi Okasanmi, who confirmed...
The Senate yesterday said that it, among other legislative functions, introduced a total of 106 bills and passed one since the inception of the seventh session on June 6, 2011. The passed bill was the controversial same sex marriage prohibition bill. C...
The family of the late Deputy Inspector General of Police(DIG), Mr. Ganiyu Dawodu has come down hard on a section of the media over several speculations that have been reported concerning the circumstances of his death. In a statement made ...
Northern Youth under aegis of Arewa Youth Forum, (AYF), yesterday, cautioned that the planned protest by Nigerian Workers under the umbrella of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and other Civil Society groups over government’s plan to remo...
Osun State Governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola has told armed robbers to stay away from the state, as he was ready to make the state unbearable for them. He also assured that his administration would do everything possible to ensure that the people of t...
Paracetamol is one of the most commonly used analgesics for the relief of headaches , minor aches and pains in the world. It is also a major remedy for cold and flu. However, the drug has often been abused, as many take it without a doctor’s pres...
A sub-committee of the Presidential Ports Reforms Monitoring Committee has ordered the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) to remove all abandoned containers at the Ikorodu Lighter Terminal (IKLT) with immediate effect to create room for the transfer of over...