Politics

Action Aid on Monday called on the National Assembly to undertake constitution amendments that would ``explicitly define the limitations of the powers of state governors in the affairs of the councils''. Dr Hussain Abdul, country director of Ac...

The Chairman, Lagos State House of Assembly (LAHA) Committee on Health Service, Mr Suru Avoseh, on Monday decried the low patronage of Public Health Centres (PHCs) across the state. Avoseh (ACN-Badagry II), spoke in Lagos as the LAHA Committee on Healt...

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the appeal filed against the victory of Idris Wada of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) as Governor of Kogi State. Candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the 2011 governorship election, Prince...

Gov. Kashim Shettima of Borno on Monday signed into law the state university bill, giving a legal backingto the establishment of the institution.  The state House of Assembly had some months ago passed the bill with an overwelming majori...

The Abia government says it will soon begin the dredging of Aba River to accommodate bigger vessels. A statement by Chief Eze Chikamnayo, the state Commissioner for Information and Strategy, said on Monday in Umuahia that the dredging was approved on S...

Unless religious intolerance and social injustice are addressed in the northern part of the country, the region will never record significant development politically, socially and economically like its southern counterpart. Prominent academic and legal...

Scott Van Duzer, pizza parlor owner and blood donator, can bench press 350 pounds. So he had no trouble with the 6’1, 176-pound, skinny President Obama. Mr. Obama got a huge lift — literally — from the registered Republican during an ...

United States President and the sole presidential candidate of the Democratic Party in the forthcoming US election, Mr. Barrack Obama did not personally or officially invite the national leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria {ACN}, Asiwaju Bola Ahme...

Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi state has berated his critics on the  dissolution of the local government councils of the state before the end of their tenure, saying that, he  followed due process. The governor made the reaction while speaking...

Nasarawa State chapter of the Action congress of Nigeria (ACN), yesterday said that it is set to sweep the forth coming local government election in the state. In statement signed by the publicity secretary of the party, Mu’azu Sama’ila, sa...

Niger State Governor Dr MuazuBabangidaAliyu has not taken decision on the widely speculated ambition to run for the 2015 presidential election. The declaration is coming on the heels of the widespread speculation that Governor Aliyu alongside incumbent...

The Abia Government has set up an intelligence monitoring team that will insure the security and safety of all the NNPC pipelines in the state. Chief Don Ubani, the Commissioner for Petroleum and Solid Minerals’ Development, d...

Nasarawa State government has donated N10 million to the Nasarawa State University to host the 27th Annual Conference of the Association of Vice Chancellors of Nigerian Universities (AVCNU). This is contained in a statement issued on Thursday and signe...

The Adamawa Police Command has confirmed the death of four people, including two students, from gun shots in Mubi town.  Confirming the development to the News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN), the command's Public Relations Officer, DSP Moh...

Kaduna State Governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa has kicked against speculations of his ambition to run for the presidency or governorship election in 2015, saying they were the handiwork of mischief-makers. Governor Yakowa, who stated this while fielding ...