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Rep. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora, has identified the absence of a policy framework on Diaspora as a big setback for Nigeria's economy. She made this known when the committee met with the Se...
President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday in Abuja restated the Federal Government’s commitment to addressing infrastructure deficiency in key development areas. The president said this in an address to the opening of the 2012 annual conference of ...
The National Chairman,Progressive Action Congress (PAC), Chief Charles Nwodo, on Thursday called for electoral process that would ensure that the right people were voted to enhance good governance. Nwodo, who made the call in an interview with the News...
Justice Husseini Baba-Yusuf of the FCT High Court on Thursday dismissed a suit filed by a company executive, Mr Ebere Enyi, against the Inspector-General of Police for ``obviously lacking in merit''. Enyi, the Managing Director o...
The Senate President, Sen. David Mark, on Wednesday, called on the Nigeria Prisons Service to turn the prisons into places of reformation rather than centres for punishment. Mark made the call in a keynote address at the International Prayer Brea...
Okitipupa (Ondo), Sept. 26, 2012 (NAN) The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday called for full participation of the citizens in Ondo State to make their votes count in the Oct. 20 governorship election. Mr Joseph Dahunsi, INEC...
The Senate on Wednesday appealed to the Federal Government to invoke Article 61 of the International Court of Justice statute to appeal against the judgment ceding Bakassi to Cameroon. The Senate's appeal followed a debate on a motion entiltled &ls...
Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, a member of the National Assembly, on Wednesday said she had set aside N1.3 million for the welfare of 1,300 elderly persons in the Lagos Central Senatorial district. The lawmaker disclosed this in Lagos at the 4th edition of the L...
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) last week re-admitted the former governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose, into its fold. Making the disclosure to newsmen after the meeting, National Publicity Secretary of the part...
To spell out the limits of any proposition, is not to give a dog a bad name, but a way of expanding future outcome of an enterprise. PDP emerged after the elections of 1999 with a huge, seemingly undeflatable balloon of national good will. Meanwhile, n...
Brigadier-General J. O. J. Okoloagu (rtd.), a chieftain of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), in this interview with MIKE UBANI, argues that the provision of jobs to unemployed youths and the conduct of free, fair and credible elections would help...
In this report GEORGE AGBA examines the recent directive issued by President Goodluck Jonathan, suspending the introduction of the N5000 note against the background of an age long feud between the National Assembly and Central Bank Governor, Mallam San...
The Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has accused Governor Rauf Aregbesola’s government of commencing the process of selling the state’s solid minerals mining licence to some leaders of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) ...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday confirmed reports in the media that the federal government has resolved to step down the introduction of the N5,000 note by the Central Bank of Nigeria. “the introduction is being suspended for now to enable ...
In a bid to prepare well for its forthcoming general elections, a 10-member team from the National Electoral Commission (NEC) of Sierra Leone has arrived Nigeria for training by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). In a statement by Mr...