• Firm holds forum in Owerri Monday

GOVERNOR Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has faulted the United States’ (U.S.) recent report that listed Imo as one of the states riddled by security problems in the country.

In a statement in Owerri, the...

POLITICAL  pressure group, Taraba Justice Forum, has challenged the Acting Governor of Taraba State, Alhaji Garba Umar, to release the official medical report on Governor Danbaba Suntai to enable citizens know his true state of health...

• PPRA Slashes Marketers List From 142 To 38

EXECUTIVE Secretary, Petroleum Product Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), Mr. Reginald Stanley, has attributed non-payment of oil subsidy to marketers since the beginning of the 2013 fiscal year to...

FORMER Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, has commended the pace of development in Plateau State since the inception of the administration of Jonah Jang. He gave the commendation while addressing participants at the Redemption II...

THE N24-billion float glass industry in Egi community, Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area (Onelga) of Rivers State, will employ 900 persons, President of Egi Peoples Assembly, Oris Onyiri, has disclosed.

Foreign investors, including the Mara...

THE Imo State House of Assembly at the weekend appraised self, scoring it high for performance in two years of present Fifth House, Third Assembly.

In his address during special session to end year 2012 /2013 Legislative year, the Speaker, Chief...

PROTESTING landowners, Saturday, confronted Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo, who was on working visit to Kaduna State to commission power projects.

Alleging that government is yet to pay for the land where the power projects are sited...

LEADER of opposition parties and former Governor of old Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, has said that the proscription of Boko Haram Islamic sect by President Goodluck Jonathan has shown that the US and Israel are behind the security...

PENSIONERS and retired councils’ staff in Borno State have now cause to smile, as Governor Kashim Shettima, on Friday, raised a 12-member committee to pay them, after the committee’s verification exercise in 27 council areas of the State.

The...

THE National Assembly is planning a new law to address delay in justice delivery in the country.

Several factors have until now been responsible for delays, like obsolete laws, lopsided mode of judges’ appointment, attitudes of lawyers...

NEW statistics by UNESCO shows that 57 million children were out of out of school in 2011; a drop of just two million from the year before.

This is coming as Nigeria maintains the highest ranking of greatest number of children out of...

THREE members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) were reported to have died, Saturday, when their bus somersaulted and crashed at Modebe Avenue, Onitsha, as they attempted to evade arrest by military...

Southeast Disagree On Role

BARRING last minute changes, a formal application for registration by the All Progressive Congress (APC) may be presented to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) this week.

A competent source told The...

WORRIED by the slow pace of Nigeria’s development amid abundant human resources, American trainer and life coach, Lee Follender, has charged relevant agencies to support the development of infrastructure, especially those that help individuals...

• Fault Agency’s ‘Excessive Use Of Power’

• Edo ACN, PDP Differ On Oshiomhole’s Chattered Chopper Controversy

• We Acted Professionally — NAMA

• Helicopter Not Grounded, Says Dati

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• ‘Why Debt Instrument Was Moribund For 18 Yrs’

AFTER paying a total of $76.78 million for debt service in 2012, the total external debt stock of the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, now stands at $2,384,178...