Islamic preachers in Yobe State have been charged to avoid making controversial statements in the course of interpreting the holy Qur’an. The state’s newly appointed Commissioner of Religious Affairs, Ibrahim Jauro Gwio Kura, gave the charg...
Smarting from the federal government’s clarification that the eight-man presidential panel set up for the Boko Haram crisis is a fact finding one and not to negotiate with the extremist Islamic sect, a member of the House of Representatives, Hono...
The special adviser (SA) to the governor on Information and Communication Technology, Mr. Odo Effiong, has said that Senator Imoke has granted approval for the provision of 250 schools in the state with information technology facilities to equip the st...
About seven weeks to the September 30 deadline given rescued banks to recapitalise, the Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) yesterday said the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has revoked the operating licences of Afribank, Spring and BankPHB fo...
The people of Ogoni in Rivers State, under the aegis of the factionalised Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) are now divided over the report on oil spills in the area which was recently submitted to President Goodluck Jonathan by the Uni...
Facts have emerged about how a former Miss Motor Show Nigeria, Miss Barbara Ana, was murdered in her house in Gwarinpa, Abuja July 29, 2011.The deceased who was an Efik from Cross River state, had won the Miss Nigeria zonal competition for the Southern...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday expressed dissatisfaction with the ongoing privatisation process in the country, saying it has not reached the expectations of Nigerians. To this effect, the president directed that industries still moribund after ...
Rehabilitating the Niger Delta area, particularly Ogoniland, would be one of the world most tasking, wide-ranging and long term oil clean up exercise ever recorded across the globe, President Goodluck Jonathan was told yesterday. This was the content o...
In this piece, OLAOLU OLADIPO examines the life and times of the late Chief Edwin Ume-Ezeoke who between 1979 and 1983 was the Speaker of the House of Representatives, his achievements and frustrations. Death has once again bore its ugly fang, this tim...
A constitutional lawyer and human rights adtivist, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN) in this interview with TONY AMOKEODO AND AHURAKA ISAH, speaks on plea barganining, Evidence Act and the need to overhaul the country’s justice criminal system. Excerpts ...
Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has urged the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) to work out modalities for imposing a ban on night travel across the country in view of safety hazards it posed. Commenting on recent incidence where 14 passengers of a lux...
Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro, said yesterday that there was urgent need to review the policy for acquiring the country’s Visa and electronic passport in conformity with the global economic configuration Moro made the submission during his ...
As the Federal Capital Territory Administration continues to grapple with the challenge of resettling the indigenous Abuja people, the FCT minister, Senator Bala Mohammed has said that the administration requires over N150 bn for its resettlement and c...
A month after rainfall wreaked havoc in Ofante, Ogugu in Olamaboro local government area of Kogi State, there is still no relief in sight for the victims as neither the federal or state government has officially intervened in the matter to alleviate th...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday extolled the virtues of United States President Barack Obama and said that within the 50 years of his life, the first African-American president had recorded epic achievements on personal, national and internationa...