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Having just concluded hearings on the new registration of vehicles and licence policy of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), fresh indications show the senate may be looking at reasons bordering on security to take a final decision. UCHENNA AWOM...
Ambassador Shehu Malami was once Nigeria’s High Commissioner to the Republic of South Africa. In this interview with MUSA AHMAD TIJJANI and ONUKOGU KANAYO JUBAL, he revisits the diplomatic row between Nigeria and South Africa, while baring his mi...
Recently, dare-devil armed robbers numbering nine, and fully armed with deadly weapons including AK 47 refles, attacked and killed the director of finance and account with the Federal Medical Centre, Katsina, Alhaji Kabir Yakubu, 55, in his residence a...
Christianity and Islam share much common ground. Both trace their roots to Abraham. Both believe in prophecy, God’s messengers (apostles), revelation, scripture, the resurrection of the dead, and the centrality of religious community.
Both ...
Governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa of Kaduna State had on January 22, set-up a 70-man Peace and Reconciliation Committee aimed at healing old wounds and fostering peace among the citizens of the state following the last year’s post-presidential poll...
Most Reverend Nicholas Dikeriehi Orogodo Okoh, Primate of Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) is one of Nigeria’s most outspoken clerics. In this interview with LOUIS ACHI, he urges Nigerians not to despair and that a new nation will emerge fr...
The President of Nigeria Union of Journalists ( NUJ )Muhammed Garba, who is also the president, West African Journalists Association, WAJA. In this interview with JAMES UWEM, talks about his plans to reinvigorate the pen profess...
The Barrack Obama-led administration in the United States of America will tomorrow, 9th April, 2011, be speaking on Nigerian security challenges, the engagement of his country with Nigeria and as well give a one-year assessment on the elections that we...
Vice president Namadi Sambo has reaffirmed the federal government’s commitment to integrating western and Arabic education insisting that the task of ensuring decent education for almajirai cannot be abdicated.
Speaking in Katsina yesterday, duri...
Alarmed by the widespread fraud and looting of the Bayelsa State government treasury in the past four years, Governor Henry Seriake Dickson may be considering the option of inviting the Nigeria’s anti-graft agency to recover the stolen fund.
Alre...
Osun State government has frowned at the incessant rape of teenagers across the state, promising that the state government would not fold its arms and watch the abuse of women and children.
It also stated that the state would ensure that an...
President of the Senate, Senator David Mark has for the umpteenth time called for national reconciliation, tolerance and forgiveness between and among Nigerians as a panacea to the intractable security threat and occasional ethno- religious confl...
The people of Luebe community in Khana local government area of Rivers State has appealed to Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi to forget about acquiring their farmlands for the banana plantation proposed by the state government.
The state government has...
Delta State House of Assembly has called on Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan to direct the ministry of works and other relevant agencies to urgently put machinery in motion to rehabilitate the Mosogar/Sapele Germon Bridge.
The motion was brought under matter...
President Goodluck Jonathan has sent a congratulatory message to Senate President David Mark on his 64th birthday.
In the message, the President praised Mark for his ``steadfast’’ dedication and patriotism to the nation.
A statement issued ...