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There were strong indications, yesterday, that the National Assembly and the Presidency might have reached a truce over the 2013 budget. This emerged yesterday when the Senate Majority Leader, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba announced on the floor that the P...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) in Edo said it had taken delivery of a seized truck with unregistered pharmaceutical products. NAFDAC said that the imported drugs were without the agency’s registrat...
Gov. Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta has assured the Oko community in the state that his administration would build embankments on the shoreline of communities living on the bank of the River Niger. Uduaghan gave the assurance Wednesday in Asaba when m...
The Senate on Wednesday in Abuja condemned the Adamawa killings and urged the Federal Government to expeditiously apprehend the perpetrators of the act and bring them to book. The Senate took these decisions following a debate on matter brought t...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says the appointment of its Group General Manager, NNPC Greenfield Refineries, Mr Adebayo Ibirogba, as the Vice President, World Liquefied Petroleum Gas Association (WLPGA), is a welcome development. A...
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday gave an interim order granting Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) possession of Ibafon Oil Tank Farm, pending determination of a substantive suit before it. Justice Okon Abang also ordered the Pet...
Mrs Lilian Nwanne, the Public Enlightenment Officer of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), on Wednesday, advised motorists to comply with traffic rules to avoid accidents on the highways. Nwanne told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in an interv...
Mr Isa Akanbi, Ondo State Commandant, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), has warned students to shun violence and political thuggery during the Oct. 20, governorship election. Akanbi, who gave the advise in an interview with the News Age...
The Oyo State Government has reinstated 1,248 workers earlier sacked for alleged falsification of academic and birth certificates in various ministries and schools in the state. Mr Bosun Oladele, the State Commissioner for Information, made...
Joseph Okoro,48, on Tuesday, requested an Oshodi Customary Court in Lagos, to dissolve his marriage over his wife's alleged defamation and denial of access to children. Okoro, a businessman, told the court that his wife, Ada, ac...
The Senate on Tuesday urged the Federal, States and Local Governments and all leaders in Nigeria to work harder to return Nigeria to economic growth, sustenance as well as strengthen national unity. The Senate made the call following th...
Mr Dairus Ishaku, the Minister of State for Power, has directed that the transformers and power equipment in PHCN central stores in Lagos be distributed to communities whose transformers have been damaged. A statement signed by Mrs Patricia Deworitshe,...
Chairman, Senate Committee on Housing and Urban Development, Senator Bukar Abba Ibrahim, 63, shares the October 1 birthday with Nigeria. In this interview with CHIKA OTUCHIKERE, the former Governor of Yobe State says that successive leaders have ...
Hon Aliyu Ibrahim Gebi is a lawmaker representing Bauchi Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives and chairman, House Committee on Internal Security. In this interview with PEMBI STEPHEN-DAVID, he posits that, freedom of expression does not...
As the House of Representatives suspends plenary this week to undertake a thorough audit of the implementation of the 2012 budget, EDEGBE ODEMWINGIE reports on the import of the budget impasse. In July, Nigeria’s minister of finance and coordinat...