GOVERNOR of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola, and a constitutional lawyer, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), Tuesday criticised the move by the Federal Government and the National Assembly to legitimise the autonomy of local governments in the country.

But the...

THE Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) Tuesday said it rejected any attempt by the presidency and the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to portray the opposition party or its leadership as terrorism sponsors, saying all alleged sponsors of...

ABIA State government has declared that destruction of crops and farmlands as a result of cattle rearing in the state has become a problem difficult to tackle.

The Deputy Governor, Sir Emeka Ananaba, who spoke on the issue while receiving the...

JUSTICE Olubunmi Oyewole of an Ikeja High Court, Lagos, Tuesday remanded Fred Ajudua in Kirikiri Prison pending the hearing of his bail application in an alleged $1.69 million fraud case.

Before he was remanded, the judge had on May 20, 2013...

THE Federal High Court sitting in Gombe has suspended hearing on a case brought by human rights activists on the lack of global system of mobile (GSM) communication in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states.

Communication through mobile telephones in the...

NIGERIAN females have migrated to various parts of the country over and above their male counterparts, a recent study carried out to, among other things, provide baseline data on internal migration has shown.

The Internal Migration Survey, which...

THE National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Akwa Ibom State Command, has raised alarm at the cultivation of Cannabis Sativa popularly known as Indian hemp in the state, stating that the exercise is both unfortunate and unpleasant.

The...

GOVERNOR Ibrahim Dankwambo of Gombe State has approved the construction and renovation of 39 secondary schools and technical colleges in the state at the cost of over N3 billion.

Giving a breakdown of the estimate, the Commissioner for Education...

THE Ekiti and Oyo State governments have declared Wednesday work-free day for workers in the states.

A statement from the Ekiti State Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation, Mr. Tayo Ekundayo said the work free day was declared by the...

IN its 20th anniversary message to commemorate the June 12 presidential election purportedly won by late Moshood Abiola but was annulled, the Lagos State Chapter of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), has said that unless Nigerian leaders make...

TWENTY years after the June 12, 1993 presidential election, the unannounced but presumed winner of that year’s polls, Chief Moshood Abiola, has been described as one though dead, is still crying in the grave because his quest to banish poverty...

GOVERNOR Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State Tuesday described the June 12, 1993 presidential election as a watershed in the annals of the country, saying that the supreme price paid by the acclaimed winner of the election, the late Chief Moshood...

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A MEMBER of the Presidential Advisory Council on International Relations and a Professor of History and Strategic Studies, Ambassador Akinjide Osuntokun has urged President Goodluck Jonathan never to...

RECURRENT disputes over land and chiefdom have claimed no fewer than 1,000 lives in Tafawa Balewa Local Council of Bauchi State, Governor Isa Yuguda has disclosed.

He noted that the crises, which dated back to 1958, were neither religious nor...