Harvard University has threatened not to accept Nigerian lawmakers for legislative exchange training programme at the US Congress. The rejection is occasioned by the consistent failure of lawmakers nominated for the programmes from Nigeria to attend the programmes. Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, who disclosed this yesterday at the National Institute for Legislative Studies (NILS) [...]
Following the debate trailing 2015 election as to which region will produce the next president, the Secretary of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Walid Jibril, yesterday said only Nigerians will determine the fate of President Goodluck Jonathan. Speaking during an interactive session with reporters at the PDP national [...]
The National Teachers Institute (NTI) has described as “unfounded” the accusation levelled against it which claimed that the institute short-changed teachers by paying them N2, 500 each instead of the budgeted N14, 000. The teachers, under their association, the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), had alleged that they had been underpaid to the tune of [...]
Justice Abdul Kafarati of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has dismissed a suit filed by one Noah Ajare to stop the reinstatement of the suspended Court of Appeal President, Justice Ayo Isa Salami. President Goodluck Jonathan had withheld his approval to the recommendation of the National Judicial Council (NJC), to recall Salami on [...]
His people oriented traits and commitment to any given cause usually endear him to the masses of Jigawa state, hence the level of support enjoyed by Governor Sule Lamido. In this interview with a select group of journalists in Dutse, the state capital, Lamido speaks on the challenges of his administration and the controversial 2015 [...]
• As varsity is shut over students’ protest The federal government yesterday said that it will not rescind its decision on the renaming of the University of Lagos after Chief Moshood Kashimawo Abiola, the acclaimed winner of the 1993 June 12 presidential election. This is coming on the heels of protests by students of [...]
The National Financial Secretary of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Pastor Ezekiel Longe, has said that Nigeria cannot be described as a democratic country but in a civil rule. He also said that the statement credited to General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) with regards to bloodbath was clearly misunderstood. In this interview with UJI ABDULLAHI [...]
Veteran broadcaster Ms Sele Eradiri has died at the age of 57 in Lagos. She died in the early hours of Tuesday. She was said to have been hospitalised at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi Araba, Lagos for some months after falling ill upon returning from a successful surgery in India. Eradiri, who was [...]
The Minister of Power, Professor Barth Nnaji, and his management team were yesterday embarrassed when they paid a visit to the Emir of Kano, Dr. Ado Bayero. While recalling his achievements since his appointment as minister before the monarch, there was a power outage by the Power Holding of Nigeria (PHCN). An obviously embarrassed Nnaji [...]
Liberia’s ex-President Charles Taylor has been sentenced to 50 years in jail by a UN-backed war crimes court. Last month Taylor was found guilty of aiding and abetting rebels in Sierra Leone during the 1991-2002 civil war. Special Court for Sierra Leone judges said the sentence reflected his status as head of state at the [...]
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