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Gov. Patrick Yakowa of Kaduna State has challenged clerics and traditional rulers to uphold the virtues that will enhance good governance in the state and the country. Yakowa made the call in a goodwill message delivered at the 80th birthday and thanks...
Indications arising from the public hearings across the states on the review of the 1999 constitution shows that there is a mounting opposition against the sole control of derivation funds by state governors. Former acting managing director of the Nige...
The trial of an accused, the Rev. Terkura Enoch-Kaa for alleged murder suffered a setback on Tuesday as the police failed to present three witnesses. Enoch-Kaa, an Abuja-based pastor of Household of Grace Church, Kubwa, FCT, was arraigned on ...
Sequel to the president’s dismissal of Ribadu’s report on oil receipts as shoddy, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has expressed regret that the federal government might have acted in bad faith. In a statement issued in Lagos yest...
The Mobil Producing Nigeria on Monday began to clean the oil spill along the Atlantic coastline in Akwa Ibom. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the spill, which occurred on Nov. 9 at the company’s offshore platforms, discharged some b...
Sen. Nenadi Usman, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Investment on Monday expressed optimism that the National Assembly would soon pass the Nigerian Sugar Master Plan (NSMP) bill. Usman disclosed this in Abuja at a one-day stakeholders’ interacti...
A group, Concerned Benue Citizens Coalition (G10), has described as undemocratic the forceful resignation of the speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly, David Iorhemba, and said that the development was unhealthy for the progress of the state. Na...
EDEGBE ODEMWINGIE reports on fresh lobbying and a cocktail of political/ethnic strategic meetings held prelude to this week’s scheduled deliberation by the House of Representatives on the new Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB). The freshly presented P...
Honourable Betty Apiafi is a member of the House of Representatives representing Abua Odual/Ahoada East Federal Constituency of Rivers State. She is the Vice-Chairman of the House Committee on Diaspora Issues. The lawmaker who was recently in the Unite...
Some Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) chieftains on Sunday extolled the virtues of Chief Lam Adesina, a former governor of Oyo State, who died on Sunday. In a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Chief Segun Osoba, a former govern...
President Goodluck Jonathan has expressed sadness over the death of elder statesman and former governor of Oyo State, Alhaji Lam Adesina. This is contained in a statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr R...
The Mobil Producing Nigeria on Sunday deployed its men and equipment to tackle a spill at its Ibeno operations in Akwa Ibom. A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) who visited the Atlantic coastline in Ibeno, reports that the spill, w...
No fewer than 20 graves will be relocated in Sapon and Ilugun in Ogun following the expansion and rehabilitation of major roads in the state. The State Government started the rehabilitation of major roads in Abeokuta on Sunday. The News Agency of Niger...
A former governor of Oyo State, Alhaji Lamidi Adesina, has died at the age of 73. Adesina, who died at St. Nicholas Hospital, Lagos, after a protracted illness, would have celebrated his 74th birthday next January. Gov. Abiola Ajimobi, who announc...
Fifty days after Gov. Sullivan Chime began his annual vacation, anxiety is mounting in Enugu State over his whereabouts. Many residents of the coal city who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at the weekend expressed worries that the governor ...