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The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has said that it was counting on ``massive Igbo votes’’ to clinch the Plateau North senatorial seat in the by-election slated for Oct. 6, this year. The state Chairman of the pa...
Dr Sam Agbogun, the Managing Director of the Nigeria Electricity Liability Management Ltd (NELMCO), said the company would resolve the more than 300 litigations against PHCN before its privatisation. Agbogun told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) o...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says it will intensify efforts at protecting its oil pipelines through effective collaboration with security agencies to check vandalism. Mr Fidel Pepple, the acting Group General Manager (Pu...
Gov. Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom says security is the key to national development. Akpabio said this in Uyo when members of the Nigerian Guild of Editors paid him a courtesy visit. The editors were in Uyo for the 8th All Nigeria Editors’ C...
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples` Democratic Party (PDP) has ratified the readmission of Dr. Ayo Fayose, former Ekiti State Governor, into the party. This is contained in a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja by Mr Olisa Metuh, th...
The Comptroller of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) in Kano State, Dr Brasca Ifeadi, has warned officers of the command against ``illegal operations''. He gave the warning on Wednesday while decorating 124 newly promoted officers wi...
The Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Oluseyin Petirin, on Wednesday commended the citizens of Borno State for their support to security agencies in the ongoing efforts to end the activities of the Boko Haram terrorists. Petirin gave the commendation...
An Abuja based group, Conscience Nigeria, has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to confer national honour on the athletes who won medals for the country at the just concluded London Paralympic Games. The Executive Director of the group, Mr Tosin Adeyan...
Mr Mike Omeri, the Director-General, National Orientation Agency (NOA), has suggested that Sept. 16, be observed yearly as a National Symbol Day for Nigeria’s Flag and Coat of Arms. Omeri, who made the proposal at a news conference in Abuja on We...
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved the execution of 44 infrastructural development projects for the nine oil producing states. Minister of Information Labaran Maku disclosed this after the Council meeting presided over by P...
The former vice president Alex Ekwueme and former super permanent secretary, Chief Philip Asiodu yesterday attributed the pervasive rot in the nation’s civil service to the military rule in Nigeria. Ekwueme and Asiodu, who were chairman and guest...
The Katsina state chairman of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Dr Yushau Armayyau has blamed the failure of the party on its national leadership. Consequently, he warned that the much talked about wrestling of power in 2015 would be elusive; ...
Last Wednesday, President Goodluck Jonathan summoned Governors Kashim Shetimma of Borno State and Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe State to a private meeting at the presidential villa on how to tackle security challenges in their domains and the country in gener...
Founder of the crisis-torn All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Chief Chekwas Okorie, is progressively nurturing another political party that will soon join the league of registered political parties in the country. In this interview with MIKE ...
President Barack Obama has surged ahead in national and swing state polls after the Democratic convention and is raising more cash than Mitt Romney for the first time in four months. The Romney campaign reaction yesterday was to blame the liberal media...