Teachers in Mubi Local Government of Adamawa yesterday resumed work following the suspension of the seven-week strike by the state chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the workers had in September ...
The All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) has called on the Federal Government to take prompt measures to address security challenge in Zamfara State before it spreads to other parts of the country, especially in view of recent security challenges facing th...
Workers of the multi- billion naira Aluminium Smelting Company, ALSCON, in Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom State, yesterday, took to the streets to protest non payment of severance benefits to disengaged members of staff four years and eight months after t...
Minister of State for Federal Capital Territory, Chief OlaJumoke Akinjide, has attributed increasing threat to food security and healthy living for humans, to environmental degradation and has made a case for accelerated tree planting to reverse the tr...
The Joint Council of Rights Monitoring Group and Conference On Security, Development & Democracy In Nigeria(RMG/CSDDN) has called on State governors across the country to pay more attention to development of human capital. The national coordinator ...
Commonwealth Secretary-General, Mr. Kamalesh Sharma has said that the meetings of Heads of State and Governments of the body will enhance global resilience.He also noted that the collective decisions by Commonwealth leaders at their summit in Per...
The Senate yesterday disclosed that Nigeria’s total debt now stands at a whopping US$39.72 billion (N6.02 trillion of which external and domestic debts are US$5.398 billion and N5.210 trillion respectively) barely five years after the full repaym...
The minister of petroleum resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, has faulted claims by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) that government was economical with the truth regarding the planned deregulation of the downstream sector of the oil industry. A s...
The death has been announced of Hajiya Astajam Ali-Akilu. She passed on yesterday at the Abuja Clinic after a brief illness. She was aged 74. Hajiya Ali-Akilu is survived by two brothers (including a former chief of air staff, Air Vice Marshal A.D. Bel...
The Supreme Court will on Monday decide whether or not to strike out the appeals by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and President Goodluck Jonathan over a ruling delivered by the Presidenti...
The federal government has set its eyes on N862 billion market opportunities that would be made available through the auction of Digital Dividend Spectrum licence, which would enable telecom operators to speed up broadband rollouts with less telecom in...
Four governorship aspirants of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State, Governor Timipre Sylva, Hon. Seriake Dickson; Mr Ben Murray- Bruce and Mr. Timi Alaibe, yesterday appeared before the Zonal Committee of the PDP for screeni...
The Supreme Court on Thursday fixed Oct. 31 for ruling in President Goodluck Jonathan’s appeal against the decision of the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal to hear the CPC’s petition against his victory. The other applicants are the...
The presentation of fresh evidence by the prosecution led to the postponement of the trial of six members of the Boko Haram sect for their alleged involvement in bombs attacks in parts of the country.Hearing of their case resumed in a Federal Hig...
The absence of EFCC's Counsel, Mr Sebastian Hon (SAN), on Thursday stalled the continuation of hearing in a suit filed against former Aviation Minister Prof. Babalola Borisade and three others. The other accused are an aide to the former minister, ...