The Cross River State Government has filed an application before the Supreme Court, asking it to put on hold its scheduled judgement on the dispute between it and Akwa Ibom State over the ownership of the disputed 76...
Deputy Senate president and chairman of the Senate Committee on Constitution Review, Sen. Ike Ekweremadu, yesterday advocated the abolition of all cultural and traditional practices that limit the potentials of women in the country. Ekweremadu spoke th...
Following the allegation of corrupt practices involving National Assembly members,the National Leader of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has warned legislators elected on the platform of the party not to join the bandwagon. Speaki...
Osun state secretariat of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) yesterday turned into war theatre as members of the party from Osogbo localgovernment engaged one another in a free for all . The ACN members who were protesting t...
Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) has said that it would make a presentation before the United States Congress on July 10, 2012 on the refusal of the federal government to begin the implementation of the environmental assessment report ...
A senator representing Kaduna Central, Major-General S. Saleh (retd), yesterday said that Nigerians should not expect much from the newly appointed national security adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd), as according to him, the office of the national sec...
Reactions have continued to trail last week’s demolition of parts of the secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Abuja Council, located in Utako, Abuja, by officials of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA). Although ...
The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Ogun State Command, has arrested a lady, Ikechukwu Abigail, suspected to be a burglar, while attempting to steal money from a car parked at the governor’s office in Oke –Mosan, Ab...
Some groups of lawyers yesterday, in Kaduna called on the federal government to allow independent lawyers, especially, Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN) to investigate the fuel subsidy bribery scandal, that transpired between Honourable Farouk Lawal an...
The UN Security Council renewed the mandate of its peacekeeping mission in South Sudan for second year on Thursday. At the occasion, UN chief Ban Ki-moon warned that the future of the year-old state was tied to developing good relations with former civ...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Nasarawa State, says it will deploy 141 ad-hoc staff for the conduct of Saturday's State House of Assembly by-election in Awe-North constituency. The Resident Electoral Commissioner, ...
The Nasarawa State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has arrested 56 suspects for illegal possession of hard drugs and trafficking between January and June this year. The Commander of the agency, Mr Mota'a Dishidi, t...
Justice Lawal Gummi, the Chief Judge of the FCT High Court, has nominated two judges who will hold special sittings for hearing of urgent cases during the annual vacation of the court. Those nominated are Justices Hussein Baba-Yusuf and Peter Affen. Th...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday called on the Federal Government and other stakeholders to partner in rejuvenating the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in Ibadan. Speaking at the ins...
A group of Western and Arab states pressing for an end to President Bashar al-Assad's rule in Syria on Friday called for stronger UN Security Council action on the crisis. The group also called for ``broader and tougher''sanctions. Foreign ...