A former Minister of State for the FCT, Mr Solomon Ewuga, on Sunday said that community policing was the best solution to the security challenges facing the nation. Ewuga made the statement in an interview with newsmen in Abuja. He argued that communit...
Given the vulnerability of street sweepers to hazards and road accidents, Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, yesterday said plans are in the offing by his administration to increase the salary of street sweepers in the state. This was just as he ...
The Yobe State chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Abbagana Tata and a Senatorial candidate of the party in the 2011 senatorial election, Hassan Kafayos have jointly dragged the Minister of State for Finance, Dr. Yerima Ngama and the...
The Sokoto State chapter of Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) has rejected the result of the Saturday's governorship election in Sokoto State. INEC on Sunday declared the immediate-past governor of the state, Alhaji Aliyu Wamakko of the PDP, as...
The Most Rev. Valerian Okeke, Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Onitsha, has urged the police and the judiciary to expedite action on awaiting-trial inmates as part of measures to decongest prisons in the country. Okeke made the appeal after ho...
The branch of Access Bank Plc. on Oyemekun/Adesida Road in Akure was on Sunday afternoon gutted by fire. Although the cause of the fire, which started from the ground floor of the bank building, has yet to be ascertained at the time of filing this repo...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Kaduna branch has donated foodstuff to the orphans and less privileged at the Jamm’aiyar Matan Arewa orphanage home in Kaduna. Some of the items donated includes rice, indomie, golden mourn, peak milk, pamp...
Rising from its President-in-Council meeting in Onitsha, Anambra state, the Christian Lawyers Fellowship of Nigeria (CLASFON) yesterday frown at the federal government’s planed to spend a whopping sum of N1.8 billion for the purchase of new cars ...
Bad governance and insecurity is forcing some companies to relocate from the northern part of the country thereby causing poverty in the region, the Director General and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of Directors, Akin Ajayi has said. Ajayi ...
As frequent cases of building collapse continue to take its toll on the nation, the Lagos State Government, at the weekend, implored residents and Community Development Associations, (CDAs) to monitor and report any suspected development of property th...
Lagos State House of Assembly may review the law prohibiting smoking of Indian hemp at the recreation centres of the State. Chairman House Committee on Youths, Sports and Social Development, Hon. Babatunde Ayeni, disclosed this during the committee&rsq...
Over one thousand persons, including a former Commissioner of Police in Delta State, Mr. Jeff Oshiomogho, at the weekend decamped to the ruling Action Congress of Nigeria(ACN) from the PDP in Ogbonna, Etsako Central Local Government Area. Speaking on t...
The Trade Union Congress (TUC) has decried the anti-labour practices adopted by multi-national companies operating at the Federal Lighter Terminal (FLT) and the Federal Ocean Terminal (FOT) in Onne, Rivers State. TUC President, Comrade Peter Esele, tol...
As the internment date for the late former leader of Biafra, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, draws nearer, the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) weekend disclosed that the late Igbo leader was not dead, saying he passed on to join other great African lea...
After over 44 years in incubation, the dredging of River Niger was flagged off on September 10, 2009. The project crystallises the federal government’s unwavering determination to tackle the country’s infrastructure and development challeng...