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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Nasarawa State, says it will deploy 141 ad-hoc staff for the conduct of Saturday's State House of Assembly by-election in Awe-North constituency. The Resident Electoral Commissioner, ...
The Nasarawa State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has arrested 56 suspects for illegal possession of hard drugs and trafficking between January and June this year. The Commander of the agency, Mr Mota'a Dishidi, t...
Justice Lawal Gummi, the Chief Judge of the FCT High Court, has nominated two judges who will hold special sittings for hearing of urgent cases during the annual vacation of the court. Those nominated are Justices Hussein Baba-Yusuf and Peter Affen. Th...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday called on the Federal Government and other stakeholders to partner in rejuvenating the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in Ibadan. Speaking at the ins...
A group of Western and Arab states pressing for an end to President Bashar al-Assad's rule in Syria on Friday called for stronger UN Security Council action on the crisis. The group also called for ``broader and tougher''sanctions. Foreign ...
On July 14th, Edo State will again attract global attention as opposing political parties including the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP), the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and others will attempt to unseat...
The Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA) is the umbrella organisation for the Organized Private Sector (OPS). In this interview with Ben Ndubuwa, the Director-General of NACCIMA, Dr. John Isemede, spea...
The federal Government has engaged the services of a Chinese firm to build toll-free emergency telephone lines through which Nigerians can make quick calls to security agencies. The acting Inspector General of Police, IGP Mohammed Abubakar, disclosed t...
Technocrats, at a public lecture in Lagos, yesterday, lamented that in spite of Nigeria’s human and natural resources which should have made her one of the frontline countries of the world, she has remained underdeveloped. They put the blame on g...
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has said that the leadership style of the PDP National Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, in his first 100 days in office, has set the tone for reconciliation in the party. In a statement issued by his media office in...
Niger State Governor, Dr Muazu Babangida Aliyu is to deliver a lecture next week at the Chatham House London on: “Nigeria’s Unity and Regional Socio-Political Groups: Influence and Impact of Northern States Governors’ Forum”. Th...
Nasarawa State government has sharply risen to defend allegations levelled against it by the State House of Assembly Ad hoc Committee on Joint Local Government Account of N2 billion fraud involving local government funds and other sensitive issue...
In a bid to block revenue leakages, the House of Representatives has directed its Committee on Petroleum Resources (Upstream) to investigate the operations of Joint Venture (JV) agreements between the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and ...
A former Head of state, General Abdusalami Abubakar (rtd), Aare Afe Babalola SAN, were among eminent Nigerians identified as winners of the 2012 edition of the African Peace Award by the National Peace Initiative Forum (NAPIF). NAPIF, a continent...
The level of corruption in the management of funds meant for fuel subsidy could leave the country broke earlier than expected, analysts have warned. They were worried that with the level of corruption, the fuel subsidy was poised to swallow the e...