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Gov. Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta has advised parents to ensure safety of children, especially on road, as a way of protecting them from road accidents. Uduaghan gave the advice in Asaba on Friday at the launching of N300 million for Children Accident Pr...
The current power play in Adamawa State took its first casualty yesterday as the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on behalf of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party sent its national vice chairman, No...
Air Chief Marshal Oluseyi Petinrin ), former Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), on Friday called on the military to leave governance to the politicians and not to interfere with the democratic process. Petinrin gave the advice at the Pulling out Parade to m...
A major development in the economy this week was the presentation of the 2013 federal budget proposal of N4.9 trillion to the National Assembly . The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the size of the 2013 budget proposal represented a five per ...
President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday arrived in Bayelsa to inspect flood ravaged areas of the state. Jonathan had an aerial view of the state in a helicopter to see the extent of damage caused by the floods in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NA...
The Conference of Speakers of State Houses of Assembly on Thursday affirmed its support for financial autonomy of local government councils and states legislative houses. The Chairman of the group and Speaker of the Gombe State House Assembly, Mr Inuwa...
Nigerian Breweries Plc has selected 12 contestants out of 35,000 applicants for the 2012 Gulder Ultimate Search competition, the Information office of Akwa Ibom Government, has said. A statement issued on Thursday in Uyo said that Mr Tony Agenmonmen, t...
The Plateau Pilgrims Welfare Board has barred 75 intending pilgrims from travelling to Saudi Arabia for this year’s Hajj, Alhaji Salisu Musa, the Executive Secretary of the board, has said. ``We have stopped 75 intending pilgrims from takin...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Thursday distributed relief materials worth millions of naira to victims of the recent communal crisis in Adamawa. Presenting the materials in Yola, Alhaji Muhammad Kanar, the North East Zonal Coordina...
Chief Edwin Clark, an elder statesman, on Wednesday called on the Federal Government to pay more attention to tackling environmental pollution and development in the Niger Delta. Clark made the call in Abuja while presenting a paper titled: ``The PIB a...
President Goodluck Jonathan will on Thursday begin the first-phase of an inspection tour of states affected by the floods. This is contained in a statement issued on Wednesday by Dr Reuben Abati, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Public...
The senate is yet to react to yesterday early morning broadcast by President Goodluck Jonathan during which he put a final seal on the ceding of the Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroun even against the resolution of the legislative house. But the South...
Twenty-five members of the Cross River State House of Assembly, yesterday, took to the streets to protest the failure of the federal government to appeal the judgment of the International Court of Justice on the Bakassi peninsula. The Assembly members ...
Gov. Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa on Tuesday ordered the immediate and indefinite closure of all schools in the state following an upsurge of flood in the state. Dickson’s order was due to the rising water levels across the state and the danger it ...
The UN has expressed concerns over Nepal’s failure to address human rights violations committed during the country's 10-year civil war. The world body's report on violations during the 1996 to 2006 conflict said as many as 17,0...