Ahead of January 14 governorship election in Adamawa State, Yola the state capital came to a standstill as Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, Nasarawa State Governor, Tanko Al-Makura, and other executive members of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) yesterd...
The Benue State Police Command yesterday arrested eight occupants of a Toyota Bus, with registration number AE 710 KAL, at the premises of the newly reconstituted Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal in Makurdi, the Benue State capital. The boys we...
The Deputy Governor of Benue State, Chief Steven Lawani, has maintained that the rule of law will prevail in the ongoing legal tussle in Benue State between the governorship candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Prof. Steven Ugbah and Gove...
Cotton farmers in the country have been called upon to rise up to the challenge of reviving the farming of cotton. Nasarawa State Governor, Umaru Tanko Al-makura, threw the challenge in Lafia, yesterday, in a goodwill message at the capacity building a...
The Court of Appeal in Kaduna State yesterday upheld the election of former National Vice Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Senator Danladi Sankara. Senator Sankara is representing Kazaure Emirate in Jigawa State at the u...
Bauchi State Governor, Malam Isa Yuguda, has been commended for appointing over 6,000 youths as Special Assistants and Personal Assistants respectively. A northern based social group, Northern Youths Consultative Forum, made the commendation in B...
Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) has described the decision by President Goodluck Jonathan to present an amendment bill before the National Assembly to facilitate a single tenure of office for executive office holders as immoral and ridiculous. Ac...
The National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) has cautioned the Federal Government not to be confrontational with the organised labour over agitations on fuel subsidy removal, increase in electricity tariff, full implementation of the 2009 ...
Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has described as unacceptable Federal Government’s plan to re-introduce toll gates on Nigeria roads. This was the resolution of the union after it National Executive Council (NEC) meeting ...
The National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) yesterday called on President Goodluck Jonathan to revisit the withdrawal of subsidy on fertiliser and the planned fuel subsidy removal. National President of NULGE, Comrade Ibrahim Khaleel who s...
Travelers passing through Lokoja - Abuja highway had a terrible experience yesterday, following the blocking of the road by security agents to prevent militants from the Niger Delta from getting to their destination: the Federal Capital Territory, Abuj...
After taking a holistic look at recent events in the Northern part of the country, Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, yesterday concluded that, “Fire is on the roof of northern Nigeria and the implication is that poverty will be on the in...
The Igbo community in Kaduna yesterday closed down all shops in solidarity with their brothers who lost their lives and properties following the Wednesday bomb blast along Ogbomosho Road in Kaduna metropolis. As a result, virtually all commercial activ...
The operational managers and accountants of the attacked new generation banks in Azare town of Katagum Local Government Area of Bauchi State were accused of masterminding last Saturday’s banks raid and robbery that took place in the area. The Com...
President Goodluck Jonathan will on Tuesday next week present the 2012 Appropriation Bill to a joint session of the National Assembly. This is just as the House of Representatives yesterday commiserated with the government and people of Kaduna State ov...