Niger state government has opened public bidding for its N9billion bond project with 34 construction companies and nine consulting firms participating.The state commissioner of works, Dr. Ibrahim Sule, who supervised the bidding with a team of the Stat...
Newly appointed special adviser to the president on political affairs, Ali Ahmed Gulak, said that the dismissal of the petition brought before the Presidential Tribunal by the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) against President Goodluck Jonathan&nb...
The standard bearer of the Congress for Progressive Change(CPC), in Kogi State, Chief James Ocholi-SAN has promised to give the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) a shock treatment in the forthcoming gubernatorial poll.He expressed his confide...
A Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Minna, yesterday, ordered one Mohammed Jemeel Musa, who allegedly killed his wife to be remanded in Minna Prison until December 1 this year when his application for bail will be heard.Musa, a busine...
The Etsu Nupe, Alhaji Yahaya Abubakar, has appointed Alhaji Abdulmalik Halilu Usman, as the new Gado Damasun Nupe.Halilu, who hails from the Usman Zaki royal family in Bida , started his early education at Sacred Heart Primary School Kaduna before proc...
The presidency has revised the major elements in the revenue framework in the proposed 2012 budget, though the budget proposal is yet to be officially forwarded to the National Assembly for consideration.The director, Budget Office, Dr. Bright Okogu, d...
The Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) yesterday stated that the issue of workers’ salaries prompted it to share N611 billion to the three tiers of government.The minister of state for finance, Dr. Yerima Ngama, stated this yesterday...
Former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, said, yesterday, at the Nigerian Army Engineers Rowing Out ceremony tagged ‘Sappers Reunion 2011’ held at the Nigerian School of Military Engineering (NASME), in Makurdi that Nigerians l...
The immediate past Chairman of the National Population Commission (NPC), Mr. Suma’ila Makama, has said that conducting a census requires a lot of courage and sensitisation. Makama made the observation in Abuja on Monday night at a dinner or...
The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja on Tuesday threw out a petition by the Congress For Progressive Change (CPC), challenging to President Goodluck Jonathan's victory in the April 16 elections. The tribunal in its ruling u...
Nigeria spends N3.9 billion annually on importation of 95 percent dairy in the country in the form of powdered, evaporated, canned, sweetened, condensed milk and other dairy products. The director-general of Raw Material Research and Development ...
Rising from an emergency meeting in Kaduna to deliberate on the proposed plan by the Federal Government to remove fuel subsidy on the downstream sector, a group which identifies itself as Concerned Christians in the North yesterday said that the remova...
Baby Gabriel, born at midnight at Gwarinpa General Hospital Abuja, officially makes Nigeria’s population of 167 million as the world celebrates Day of Seven Billion People on Monday. The father of the boy, Mr Ibu Simon, who hails from Cross River...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said on Monday that Abuja airport had been identified by drug traffickers as their new route for the illicit business. In a statement in Lagos, the NDLEA Head of Public Affairs, Mr Mitchell Ofoyeju said ...
Rotary International, district 9125 at the weekend conferred distinguish service award on the Secretary to Government of the Federation, Chief Pius Anyim and Chairman of LEADERSHIP Newspapers Group Ltd, Mr. Sam Nda-Isaiah, for what it described as thei...