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As the ongoing strike embarked upon by tankers drivers in Calabar depot entered its fourth day, the chairman of the Union, Alhaji Abdullahi Akomaye, has given reasons why members of the union withdrew their services. He said that the ...
The Appeal Court Tribunal sitting in Enugu, yesterday, allowed the appeal filled by the Senatorial candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance(APGA) in the last general election in Anambra Central District, Professor Dora Akunyili against the...
With the disqualification of the embattled Governor Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa from the forth coming gubernatorial poll, the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has once again told those who care to listen that it could sanction anyone and damn ...
Ambassador Ahmed Al-Gazali, Chairman, Federal Civil Service Commission bowed out of service last month after superintending the commission for 10 years. In this interview with JOSHUA UMA, he speaks on his achievements and the challenges he faced. TEN Y...
The recent visit of some Leaders of Afenifere, the pan-Yoruba socio-political group, to the embattled former governor of Ogun State, Gbenga Daniel in his home has continued to generate reactions from well meaning individuals from within and outside Yor...
The giant transformation currently going on in the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) under the leadership of Abdullahi Dikko Inde has been described as the major reason for the conferment of the National Award of Commander of the Federal Republic (CF...
Governorship candidate of Congress for Progressive Change,CPC, in Kogi State, Chief James Ocholi, SAN has promised to transform Lokoja, into a befitting State capital if elected in next month’s governorship poll. Addressing party supporters in Lo...
Benue State Governor Gabriel Suswam has said that no act of provocation will deter his commitment to improve on the lives of the people of the State. Suswam, who clocked 47 on Tuesday, said that he would embark on live changing projects in a rene...
The governorship candidate of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN in Kogi State, Prince Abubakar Audu, has urged the people to prevent rigging and protect their votes in the forthcoming governorship election in the State. He gave this charge in an intervie...
A Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday stopped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from holding the Bayelsa State governorship primary election slated for Saturday, November 19, to pick its candidate for the state governorship election in 2012.
Members of the National Assembly yesterday pointedly told President Goodluck Jonathan, at a meeting in the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, to forget anything to do with removal of the contentious subsidy on petroleum products. The lawmakers adv...
Following reports yesterday of a court order asking the nationalised banks to quit operations, the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Central Bank have assured customers of the banks that their deposits are safe, while maintaining that...
It is only a matter of days before the entire country is thrown into total darkness, following a strike embarked upon by workers in the nation’s power sector. Already, most states of the federation have been thrown into darkness just as access to...
A Bill that sought to amend the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) Act, to compel the Federal Government to distribute certain taxes and duties collected by the (FIRS) to the states, yesterday threw the House into a rowdy session as it had to be sto...
Indications emerged yesterday that since the return of democracy in 1999, the National Assembly, which serves as the assembly for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has not passed any of the FCT Bills sent to it into law.The development came just as i...