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The Court of Appeal sitting in Jos yesterday dismissed Plateau State governor, Jonah Jang’s appeal seeking to quash the case of his challenger and Labour Party candidate, Mrs Pauline Tallen. The Plateau Electoral Petition Tribunal had, in i...
The coordinator of World Bank’s N1.4 billion contract, awarded for the construction of 132 bridges in Kaduna State, Mr Musa Tete, has said that 80 per cent the project has been done.Tete, who oversees the Rural Access and Mobility Project (RAMP) ...
The Sultan of Sokoto and the National Amirul Hajj, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar has commended the Federal Government for its continuous support and commitment to the successful execution of the annual hajj exercise. The sultan, who stated this at Nation...
United States Agency for International Development, USAID, and Management Science for Health, MSH, partner Gombe State Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Welfare, to organise a sensitisation campaign that would support communi...
The Federal Government has been tasked to pull all stops, put its security operatives on their toes and fish out the sponsors of the dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram, for prosecution.A cross section of lawyers gave the charge yesterday while speaking w...
As a Federal High court ruling restrains the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) from imposing fines on traffic offenders , the Lagos state government yesterday restated its confidence in the agency. It also said that the agency wou...
The Court of Appeal sitting in Port Harcourt yesterday asked the Rivers State election petitions tribunal to conduct fresh hearing on the petition brought before it by the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the stat...
At last, the federal government has commenced the much awaited verification exercise of all pensioners under the Head of Service, in line with the Unified Pension scheme, to determine their accurate number and quantum of liabilities. Fielding qu...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday confirmed Justice Dahiru Musdapher as substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN).Musdapher, who has barely eight months to spend in office before attaining the mandatory retirement age of 70, would be sworn by pres...
The Managing Director, Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA), Engr. Gabriel Amuchi, has stated the agency’s resolve to reduce its reliance on federal government allocation.Amuchi made this known yesterday at a press briefing where he expressed ...
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has once again insisted that the last general elections held in Nigeria were credible at all levels.The president, who maintained this while briefing world leaders at the ongoing 66th session of the United Nations Gene...
Bashir Salihu is a legal practitioner and former chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in Yobe State. In this interview with UCHE UCHE in Damaturu, the Lawyer speaks on the Justice Salami saga, President Goodluck Jonathan’s proposal of s...
The acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje and the immediate past governor of Kwara State, Senator Bukola Saraki will on Saturday, in Ilorin, receive the defecting leaders and members of All Ni...
According to sources within the Nigerian Football Federation, the chief coach of the National U-20 team, the Flying Eagles, John Obuh, has started wooing the Nigeria Football Federation to allow him commence preparations for the 2013 edition of the Wor...
Former Kogi State first lady, Mrs. Aisha Eleojo Audu-Emeje, yesterday emerged as the Justice Party (JP) flag bearer in the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Kogi State. Mrs. Audu, who is the first woman to win a gubernatorial ticket of any party si...