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The federal government has said that the extension of the PHCN privatisation process to October this year was necessitated by the need to ensure transparency and thoroughness in the bids submitted so far. The Minister of State for Power, Mr Dariu...
Following the deplorable state of the nation's refineries which has resulted in local refining shortfall, and increase in the importation of petroleum products over the years, a National Refinery Task Force was yesterday inaugurated by the Minister...
The Governor of Niger state Dr muazu Babangida Aliyu has said that the current Shari a legal system in the state was political and that the state would soon criminalize certain aspects of the law such as marrying more than four wives. This is an indica...
The House of Representatives has expressed concern over increasing acts of illegalities perpetrated by some operators and users of the Eastern Ports. The House made its feelings known when its Committee on Marin Transport visited areas within the...
House of Representatives, yesterday, differed from the decision of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, to cancel the conduct of University Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, in the violence-prone States of Kano, Borno and other relat...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has raised an alarm over moves by the presidency to jettison the report of the probe of the oil industry by the Faruk Lawan led committee in the House of Representatives. President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Comr...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Offences Commission, yesterday, swooped on the Federal Medical Centre, (FMC) Abeokuta, and quizzed its medical Director, Dr Dapo Sotiloye, for allegedly embezzling a sum of N88million meant for housing allowa...
Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has assured that his victory at the Supreme Court on the governorship legal tussle with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) finally marked the end of an era of darkness in the State. The Governor, who addressed a cro...
Members of the Enugu State House of Assembly have decried the poor security set up at the premises of the House Assembly complex. Hon. Okechukwu Nwoke, representing Igbo-Etiti West constituency, who raised the issue, yesterday, during the sitting of th...
Gov. Jonah Jang of Plateau declared on Tuesday in Jos that the recent attack on COCIN headquarters Church in Jos was carried out by forces outside the state. Jang, who stated this when he received the COCIN President, Rev. Soja Bewarang, who led the Ex...
Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Monday in Lagos commended former President Olusegun Obasanjo for his ``early endorsement of democracy that is sweeping’’ through the African continent. The Liberian gave the commendation in...
Civic leaders in Libya's eastern Cyrenaica province, home to most of the country's oil, have declared the creation of a council to administer the province's affairs. Tuesday's declaration does not carry official force but it puts the pr...
The Kebbi Department of Fire Service recorded 34 incidents of fire outbreaks in Kebbi State within the last three months. Alhaji Bello Zagga, the state Director of Fire Service, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Birnin Kebbi on Tues...
An Akure Senior Magistrates' Court on Tuesday ordered that a 33-year-old businessman, Samson Awonire, be remanded in prison for allegedly killing his stepmother. The accused person was said to have killed his 65-year-old stepmother, Mrs Esther Awon...
The police on Tuesday arraigned a 25-year-old furniture maker, Shola Adeboyo, of Lugbe Village, Abuja at an Abuja Senior Magistrates' Court charged with abduction. The police prosecutor, Cpl. Pascal Njoku, told the court that the offence was commit...