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Mr Mansur Ahmed, Director-General, Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission, has advised the Aviation Ministry to embrace Public Private Partnership (PPP) in developing the sector. Ahmed gave the advice in an interview on Monday, in Abuja, while...
Residents of Mubi in Adamawa have appealed to the state government to provide hand pumps to enhance access to potable water in the area. The people were facing water shortages occasioned by the prevailing dry season as most of the available open wells ...
Jigawa State government has approved the construction of solar powered water scheme in 40 towns across the 27 Local Government Areas of the State. However, the State Small Town Water supply Agency, in collaboration with the office of the Millennium Dev...
The Nasarawa State Government is set to collaborate with the CBN in agricultural financing inorder to boost agricultural production. This was made known by Governor Umaru Tanko Al-makura at the 2011 annual dinner and award ceremony organised by the CBN...
Erring Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members in Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State have been granted pardon by the party. The chairman of the party in the area, Chief Okafor Chiejima told newsmen at the weekend that the party granted ...
Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State yesterday received commendation for the second time from an unusual quarters, Pope Benedict XVI. The Pope who earlier commended Governor Obi through his Bishop, Paulinus Ezeokafor who had, during his last Ad Limina v...
Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has signed the 2012 appropriation bill of N88, 828, 351, 795.25 into law. It could be recalled on December 22, 2011, the Governor presented a budget estimate of N98, 992, 811,073.50, but later re-presented an...
National Chairman of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Chief Bisi Akande, has commiserated with the Ekiti State Government on the death of renowned economist, Professor Samuel Aluko, who passed away on Monday in a London hospital after an illness. ...
Maj-Gen Joseph Okunbor, the Commander, Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), Nigerian Army, has warned junior officers who are writing the 2012 Lieutenant-Captain Practical Promotion Examination (LCPPE) to shun examination malpractice. Okunbor gave t...
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), in Oyo State, has rejected the result of the re-run election held in Irepo/Oorelope/Olorunsogo Federal Constituency which was won by Mr. Afeez Ona-Ara Tijani of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The party, in a s...
Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State, yesterday urged Nigerians to study the late Ikemba of Nnewi, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, and use his ideals to advance the frontiers of peace, national unity and development. Governor Akpabio,&...
The governorship candidate of the All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP) for the February 25, ballots in Cross River State, Mr. Patrick Akomiso, has promised to reclaim the oil-rich Bakassi ceded to Cameroun in 2008 in eighteen months of his administr...
Less than few hours after voting ended in the 105 wards in Bayelsa State, the peaceful conduct of the election was shattered with a bloody clash between the supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party and Change Advocacy Party. At least six persons were...
President Goodluck Jonathan says the governorship election in Bayelsa has been peaceful. He told newsmen at his hometown, Otuoke, Ogbia local government area of the state on Saturday after casting his vote that reports from other parts of the state had...
There was a low turnout of voters on Saturday, as Bayelsa State gubernatorial elections commenced. At unit 13, Otazi Playground which is President Jonathan's polling unit , only 124 voters were accredited out of the 857 registered voters. Scores of...