The people of Bakassi yesterday protested against their exclusion from the Cross River gubernatorial election, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. At a news conference in Calabar, the leader of Bakassi people, Senator Florence Ita-Giwa, said thei...
In its bid to ensure effective service delivery within a period of time, the Kwara state government has introduced what it terms ‘performance contracting’ in the state civil service. In the new arrangement, it is very clear that it would no...
It is a truism that whatever one labours hard to get, he guards jealously. This is exactly the case of Hon. Mashood Mustapha, a House of Representatives member, representing Ilorin West/Asa Federal Constituency at the lower chamber of the National Asse...
Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney have clashed in a heated debate in the US state of Arizona days before two states hold key primary elections. A resurgent Santorum came under attack from his rivals over healthcare, earmark spending and voting to raise the...
At least 26 people have been killed in a suspected al Qaeda car bombing in Yemen hours after the nation's new president vowed to continue the fight against the terror group. Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi took an oath of office, which formally removed lon...
ICRC spokesman Sean Maguire says, "There are still grave needs in Baba Amr and Homs" (Amateur video purportedly shows recent shelling in Homs) In a report by the BBC, the Red Cross says it is resuming its attempts to rescue more Syrians trapp...
Most couples yearn for children who represent their union and signify their future. However for a significant number of couples, researchers have found out that for about 1 in every 4 couples, this desire cannot be fulfilled without some assistance. Ho...
It will not be out of place to say that in Nigeria today, the menace of the dreaded Boko Haram is taking a toll in all aspects of our national life including the church which has received more than a dosage from the mindless sect that attack and bomb c...
Residents of Obiagu, a well-known ghetto in Enugu, are bereft of modern social amenities, a setback that has forced them to struggle for survival in the settlement as though they are in the pit of hell. But MIKE UBANI, reports that in spite of th...
Since the birth of the Fourth Republic, the national parliament has churned out hundreds of resolutions. Curiously, these resolutions are largely ignored by Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) which have been at the receiving end of a large chu...
Working hard to meet the target set by World Health Organisation (WHO) of eradicating the polio virus in Nigeria, the Executive Director/CEO, National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr Ado J.G Muhammad is optimistic that come 2013, Ni...
A coalition of Northern politicians, academics, professionals and businessmen met yesterday at Asokoro, in Abuja, to deliberate on matters of serious concern to the Northern states of Nigeria and their peoples. In the course of the meeting the Northern...
DAVID-CHYDDY ELEKE in this report looks at the preparations being made to ensure hitch free burial for former warlord, and the leader of the Igbo people, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. Since the announcement of his death last year, 26th November, the...
Former governorship aspirant in Kaduna State, under the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Idris Shuaibu Mikati and member Governing Council of the Kaduna State University is an expert in human resource management and governance. In this int...
There seems to be no reprieve in sight for embattled former Bayelsa State Governor Timipre Sylva, as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday filed a six-count charge of money laundering against him at the Federal High Court in Abu...