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Over the years, police checkpoints have become a nightmare for motorists and travelers as policemen turn checkpoints into money making venture and point of human rights abuse. The recent order by the Inspector General of Police, Mr Mohammed Abubakar, f...
Motor Park, in Nigeria parlance, is a place where passengers board vehicles to their various destinations. But a situation where such a place turns into an arena with so many goings-on, one may be forced to find another name for such a set up, just lik...
On his assumption of office in October 16 2010, the Ekiti State governor Dr. Kayode Fayemi, unveiled an eight-point agenda with education and human capital development entrenched in the policy thrust as fourth leg of the transformational agenda to rein...
Ogun State in recent weeks has been in the news for wrong reasons. Almost on a daily basis, attack on the citizens of the state by men of the underworld has become a recurring decimal. In a bid to find a lasting solution to the crisis, the Ogun State g...
Japan has given a grant of Japanese Yen 600 million (approximately US $7.85 million or N1.24 billion) to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) for child survival programmes in Nigeria. The grant is for polio- eradication, strengthenin...
As count down to the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME begins, the registrar of JAMB, Prof Dibu Ojerinde, has announced that a total of 1,503,931 candidates registered for the 2012 examination, thereby making it the highest number of reg...
Nigerians from different walks of life are still paying tributes to the late Deputy Inspector-General, DIG, John Haruna who died along with three other police officials during the Jos helicopter crash last Wednesday. A visit to the private residence of...
The Minister of Tourism, Culture and National orientation, Edem Duke has reiterated the need for government to invest more in the sector in order to optimise the potentials embedded in it. The minister added that there were untapped professionals among...
The District Head of Jikwoyi Community in Abuja Municipal Area Counci (AMAC), Chief Nicodemus Machi has appealed to the chairman of AMAC, Hon. Micah Jiba to assist provide more electricity transformers to power the community. Machi, who made the appeal...
The Fulani community in Maikwari, Kwali area council has called on the chairman of the council, Joseph Shazin to put up basic amenities in the community. Speaking through their representatives at an interactive session with the chairman, the community ...
The chairman, Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC), Gwagwalada, Archbishop Chiwendu Nwoha has advocated enhanced police-community relations to ensure adequate protection of life and property in Gwagwalada. Speaking at the official launch of the ...
The chief of Anagada community, Gwagwalada area council, Alhassan Musa Dakachin has applauded the Fadama III project in the area, describing it as a life saver for the people of the community. Dakachin, who spoke during a visit of the World Bank team t...
Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Oduah, on assumption of office promised to make air travel the preferred mode of transportation in Nigeria. In this exclusive interview with Nkechi Isaac, she speaks on measures put in place to sanitize the i...
“Bauchi State governor Mallam Isa Yuguda has achieved, within a short period of time, what most of his contemporaries have been unable to achieve in office.” That was part of a citation on the governor read yesterday during an annual lectur...
The Benue State office of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has constructed 210 hand pump boreholes, just as it distributed drugs to 276 primary health centres in the 23 local governments of the state. The office has also inaugurated 80 motorized...