OGUN State government has declared June 12 a public holiday to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the June 12, 1993 presidential election believed to have been won by its indigene, the late Chief M.K.O Abiola.

This is contained in a statement...

ALLEGING highhandedness, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has said that the recent  proscription order  on Boko Haram and Ansaru though  desirable in  tackling the terrorist organisations, violates the country’s ...

THERE are indications that the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) will Monday release licences to seven of the 10 National Integrated Power Projects (NIPP) estimated at N1.2 trillion, which have been put up for sale by the Federal Government.

The...

• Kwara chapter denies alleged hijack plot

POISED to ensure a more united political family, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said yesterday that its renewed commitment to issues of discipline and party loyalty would make it...

THE FRSC Sunday began a nationwide special patrol as part of strategies to reduce road accidents during the rains.

A statement issued by Mr. Jonas Agwu, the FRSC’s Public Education Officer, said the weeklong exercise, tagged “Operation...

THE Senator representing Abia Central and Chairman Senate Committee on Gas Resources, Nkechi Nwogu has advocated collaboration between the executive and legislature from the preparatory stage of the appropriation bill to minimise the distortion...

 

THE Nigeria High Commissioner to Kenya, Ambassador Akin Oyateru, has hinged the deportation of Nigerian businessman, Anthony Chinedu who was among other six Nigerians deported from Kenya, on administrative lapses.

Throwing light on the...

BY virtue of holding the portfolio of Commissioner for Political Affairs of the African Union (AU), Nigeria can help bridge the security gaps that have become apparent in the test running of the African Peace and Security Architecture in readiness...

THE Federal Government might need about $795 million (N125.6 billion) to ring the entire country’s states capitals in its quest for broadband deployment.

This estimate is contained in the 109-page document titled: Nigeria’s National Broadband...

OVER one year after she lost her husband, Prof. Celestine Onwuliri, in the June 2012 Dana Air disaster in Lagos, his widow and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Prof. Viola Adaku Onwuliri, said no compensation has been given to her family by...

• Youth, elders do not complement each other

• Self comes before nation, me before others

ELDER statesman and Nigeria’s former permanent representative at the United Nations, Alhaji Maitama Sule, says the nation has found itself in an...

FOLLOWING the detention of Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s flight by the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) last weekend, the Deputy Speaker of Edo State House of Assembly, Festus Ebea, said the Edo people demand apology from the agency for...

FAMILY of the slain 22-year-old student of the University of Benin, Ibrahim Momodu, Sunday raised fresh dust with the allegation that police report that the victim was shot in the legs was false, stating that autopsy reports from his exhumed body...

• Nigeria records no new case, immunisation for mid-June

• ‘Obese children have increased risk of diabetes, hypertension, cancer’

THE Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) for polio eradication, which was set up by the Global Polio...

JUSTICE Adeniyi Onigbanjo of Ikeja High Court has declared the invitation of five Lagos high chiefs by the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and the Commissioner of Police, Monitoring/Special Investigation Unit, Force Headquarters, Abuja, Mr. Ali...

AN indigenous group in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Original Inhabitants’ Development Association of Abuja (OIDA), has commended the Senate Committee on Review of the 1999 Constitution for including a mayoralty system of governance for...