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Senate President David Mark said on Thursday that the disagreement between the legislature and the executive over the non-implementation of the 2012 budget was necessary. The Senate president said this at an event to mark Startimes’ second annive...
The PDP in Edo has demanded an apology from Gov. Adams Oshiomhole for allegedly accusing the party and its leadership of being responsible for the death of his Principal Private Secretary, Mr Olaitan Oyerinde. The Youth Leader of PDP in the state, Mr V...
Vice President Namadi Sambo has faulted advertorials spnsored in the media pegging his age at 60, saying he was born on August 2, 1954 and just attained the age of 58 on his birth which was yesterday. A statement by Senior Special Adviser on media and ...
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, has stressed the need for the states Independent Electoral Commission (SIECs) to conduct credible elections at local government areas. He said that, by condu...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the forthcoming Ondo State governorship election, Chief Wale Oke, has said Ondo people’s desire for change is the basis for his gunning for the Ondo Government House and said that he was ready for t...
Prince Billy Harry is the President, Forum of South-South Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture. In this interview with OLAOLU OLADIPO, he speaks on a wide range of issues affecting the country and calls on President Goodluck Jonathan t...
Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, yesterday denied any existing conflict in the management of the president’s media and information process. This was even as he said that the newly appointed Senior Special...
Alhaji Aminu Soro, the Sokoto State Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps ( NSCDC) said on Tuesday that proactive security measures had been adopted to confront terrorist attacks in the state. "We have deployed anti-bomb dispo...
The National Publicity Secretary of All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Mr Emma Eneukwu, said on Tuesday that the country was not ripe for the creation of state police. The National Publicity Secretary, Mr Emma Eneukwu, made the remark in an interview wi...
Foreign Minister Olugbenga Ashiru on Tuesday in Abuja said the Nigerian former diplomat detained in Venezuela had retired from service and no longer enjoyed diplomatic immunity. ``The information at my disposal is that Mr Olarotimi Ajayi ceased to be a...
The police in Gwagwalada, Abuja, on Tuesday, said that a missing baby boy of about a year was found at Gwako, FCT, and brought to the Gwagwalada Police Station. The boy was said to be found crying along the roadside in Gwako on July 25. Madam Hussaina ...
The University of Jos on Tuesday inducted 44 newly graduated Pharmacists and called on them to stay and practice in Nigeria to increase the pharmacists' ratio per population. Prof. Hayward Mafuyai, the university’s Vice Chancellor, in an addr...
Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati yesterday denied any existing conflict in the management of the president’s media and information process, saying the newly appointed Senior Special Adviser t...
Dr. Doyin Okupe says his appointment as Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Public Affairs to President Goodluck Jonathan does not suggest conflict or friction in the Presidency’s information management process. Okupe spoke at a joint media briefin...
Justice Maudashiru Oniganyi of the FCT High Court, on Tuesday in Abuja warned the police not to expose the judiciary to ridicule. Oniyangi gave the warning following complaints by counsel to one Habibu Musa, Mr Issac Abah, that the police failed to fil...