The Federal Government said that the Board of Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited (NigComSat) which was inaugurated on February 23, 2011, would be exempted from a presidential directive issued in October 2011 dissolving all federal parastat...
Zamfara State Police command has refuted media reports that it received an order from the ruling All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP’s, government in the State to arrest some members of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party PDP during the jus...
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has set aside N3b as subsidy for the operation of the bus mass transit scheme. Minister of the FCT, Senator Bala Mohammed, disclosed this yesterday, at the launch of the 300 buses for the FCTA Assisted Public Mass Tr...
The Chairman of Gwagwalada Area Council, Alhaji Zakari Angulu, has presented a proposed budget of N3.8 billion budget for 2012 to the council’s legislative arm for considerations and passage. Angulu explained that 61 per cent of the proposed amou...
When George W. Bush was campaigning to secure his first term in office as president of the United States of America, one of his recurring slogans was “I’m a uniter, not a divider”. He particularly made a huge capital out of this, butt...
Recently, the National Publicity Secretary of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Alhaji Lai Mohammed had an interactive session with the media on the state of the nation. The occasion provided an opportunity for him to articulate his party’s p...
Hon. Peter Ede represents Eza North and Ishelu federal constituency of Ebonyi State in the House of Representatives. Elected on the platform of All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP), he is the deputy chairman, House committee on Solid Mineral Development. ...
Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha has presented a budget proposal of N174.3billion to the state House of Assembly yesterday. Okorocha stated that out of the sum, N47.7billion would be for recurrent expenditure while N12...
The authorities of the 2 Brigade, Nigerian Army, Port Harcourt said it was the collaboration between it and the Rivers State Command of the State Security Services (SSS) that foiled a planned bomb attacks on the Port Harcourt Barrack, popularly called ...
The minister of education, Prof Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufai, has cautioned universities on the award of honorary doctorate degrees which she said is not in the best interest of the education sector The minister who spoke yesterday during a meeting with all v...
The Police in Akwa Ibom State yesterday paraded a man, 18, who was alleged to have broken into a church in Eket south and stole the church’s tithe. Johnson Monday Umoetuk, a native of Idua Eket was arrested by the police for allegedly...
The House of Representatives has disclosed plans to trim the recurrent expenditure in the 2012 budget proposal of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA). This is part of measures to ensure accelerated infrastructural development in the FCT...
The National President of Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, Alhaji Yerima Shettima, has blamed political leaders in the North who held on to power for 35 years without positively impacting on the lives of the people in the zone for the frustration p...
The lingering dispute bordering on the displacement of indigenes of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), may soon be resolved as a bill for an act to establish the FCT Resettlement, Compensation and Rehabilitation Board, has passed through the second r...
A Yemeni draft law granting immunity to the outgoing president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, from prosecution over the killing of protesters was amended yesterday to limit the protection his aides would enjoy, a minister said. The draft law, which has been heav...