Secretary to the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC), Mr. Elvis Oglafa, has identified funds shortage and lack of adequate manpower as the two major constraints hindering the ICPC and other sister agencies in the fight against c...
A former member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Umar Uba, has accused the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, of refusing to comply with a valid court order that declared him the elected to the House to represent Yauri/S...
Embattled Super Eagles coach, Samson Siasia will today know his fate regarding the Super Eagles plum job. After failing to qualify Nigeria for next year’s Nations Cup, the NFF technical committee met and forwarded their recommendations to the exe...
For some days now, top Yoruba actor, Babatunde Omidina, who is well known as Baba Suwe has been in the custody of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for an alleged drug ingestion offence. Though the development has been very messy, especi...
The Northern Governors, Forum (NGF) has condoled with the Yobe State Governor Ibrahim Gaidam over the death of his wife, Hajiya Zainab. Governor of Niger State and chairman of the forum, Dr Muazu Babangida Aliyu, urged Gaidam and members of the f...
Niger State Governor, Dr Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu has described the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) as the most important agency for fighting corruption and ensuring that people conform to acceptable norms in the society. Aliyu stated this yesterday w...
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Kwara State has indicated its intention to appeal the judgement of the tribunal which upheld the election of Senator Bukola Saraki for Kwara Central Senatorial District on Wednesday.Chairman of the party in the s...
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...