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The Federal Character Commission on Friday said that any government organisations that failed to comply with the principles guiding recruitment in the civil service would be sanctioned. Mr David Fakeye, the Director, Monitoring and Enforcement of the c...
Plateau State House of Assembly (PLHA) on Friday called for the immortalisation of Sen. Gyang Dantong and Gyang Fulani, the Majority Leader of the House. The duo died on Sunday, July 8, 2012 in Maseh village, Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau, whe...
Senate President David Mark on Friday declared his support for the creation of state police. Mark said he had discovered the necessity of state police and had since dropped his opposition against it. Mark made the declaration in Asaba, Delta, at the op...
Gov. Babangida Aliyu of Niger on Friday urged Muslim leaders in the country to reflect the true face of Islam. He said in his message to mark the beginning of Ramadan that Muslim leaders could do this by watching their utterances as they usher in the f...
The Senate Committee on the review of the 1999 Constitution said on Friday it had received 108 memoranda and 56 requests for states creation. Chairman of the committee, Sen. Ike Ekweremadu, who stated this in Asaba at the opening of a two-day retreat o...
The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajiya Zainab Maina, on Friday urged the Lagos State Government sign into law, the bill on ``Violence Against Women’’. Maina, who made the call in Lagos when he visited some Skills Acqui...
The National Vice Chairman, South East of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Austin Akobundu, has described Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha as lawless for refusing to obey a court order reinstating sacked Local Government Chairmen in the State. In ...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday forwarded the final draft copy of the long-awaited Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) to the National Assembly for onward passage into law. This ends the anxiety generated by the document, following an alarm raised by t...
In this report, LEADERSHIP’s DAVID-CHYDDY ELEKE who was in Edo for the state governorship election writes on how the media and security operatives deployed to the state on the orders of President Goodluck Jonathan helped to create an atmosphere o...
The House of Representatives, yesterday, approved the 2012 budget of Nigeria Communication Communications (NCC) to the tune of N52 billion. Going by the NCC budget breakdown, N13 billion was earmarked for recurrent expenditure, N6 billion for transfer ...
Northern delegates attending the 19th international convention of the Northern Peoples Frontiers in the United States, called The Zumunta Inc, have attributed the poor security situation in Nigeria to corruption within the government. They also attribu...
Following last Saturday’s victory of Edo State governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, in the state governorship election, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Benin yesterday presented the governor-elect with his certificate of re...
Northern delegates attending the 19th international convention of the Northern Peoples Frontiers called The Zumunta Inc in the United states, have declared that the poor security state of Nigeria is as a result of corruption within the government. They...
Senator Iyiola Omisore, the former Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriation was recently in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital, where the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria Ibadan National station hosted him as a guest. In this interview with Sakin Bab...
With worsening national security, the $620,000 bribery tale and an inquest into the insurance of government assets and property (chiefly the NNPC) topping the list of developments last week in the House of Representatives, ADESUWA TSAN and EDEGBE ODEMW...