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No fewer than 845 ‘ghost’ workers have been discovered in the Nasarawa Civil Service, with 325 other staff found to have overstayed.This is contained in a report of a screening, verification and computerisation of payroll and personnel reco...
The Commissioner of Police in Plateau State , Mr Dipo Ayeni, has appealed to the State House of Assembly to legislate on vigilance groups to stem recurring attacks on rural communities. Ayeni made the suggestion yesterday in Jos when he received...
There was confusion yesterday at the home council of the Former Presidential Adviser on Niger Delta, Mr. Timi Alaibe, following the verdict of a Yenagoa High Court nullifying the removal of the Chairman, Kolokuma/ Opokuma local government council, Chie...
The Imo State workers has begun an indefinite strike to press home their demand for the state government to effect the N18,000 minimum wage following the refusal of the state authorities to keep their own side of the bargain. A...
The House of Representatives has summoned the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Gbenga Ashiru, asking him to appear before the House to brief lawmakers on concrete measures put in place to protect Nigerians in Libya and secure their e...
The Court of Appeal in Calabar yesterday upheld the election of Akwa Ibom State Governor Godswill Akpbabio and dismissed an appeal by the governorship candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the April 26, 2011 poll ...
Gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram have shot dead a retired civil servant with the Ramat Polytechnic in Maiduguri , Yakubu Iliya (67) and Turmda Malgwi (46) and a 22-year- old person in Bulunkutu Ward of Maiduguri Metr...
Former Lagos State governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu has denied having any link with the dreaded al Qaeda terrorist network.In a chat with an online publication, Tinubu, who is also the leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), dismissed the claim conta...
In a bid to revamp failed privatised enterprises in the country, the Senate Ad-hoc Committee on Privatisation yesterday stormed Lagos State to investigate the failed enterprises. Chairman of the committee Senator Ahmed Lawan revealed this when h...
Kogi and Benue states indigenes constitute 22.2 per cent of the total workforce of the Federal Housing Authority (FHA), a situation that violates the Federal Character principle. Investigations by LEADERSHIP show that out of the 465 workers engaged by ...
The Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) summon of former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu to Abuja for trial was an incident waiting to happen. Tinubu was among other charges, alleged to have operated foreign accounts while in office as go...
Few weeks ago, the presidential probe committee on the activities of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) submitted its report to the Secretary to Government of the Federation, Senator Pius Anyim. The committee, which is chaired by former Head...
Top United Nations officials have argued in favour of better protection for journalists as well as greater efforts to ensure that those who kill or intimidate them are brought to justice. This was even as they stressed that freedom of the press is a ba...
Governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa of Kaduna State has assured of his administration’s readiness to partner with the Kaduna State Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (KADCCIMA) to provide the needed development for the state. ...
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will soon come up with directives that would hinder banks from lending to oil companies that do not adhere to environmental standard. The Governor of the CBN, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi who made this statement on Friday at a fin...