Horse-trading by members of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) along the lines of the Northern Governors Forum (NGF) and the PDP Governors Forum reached a crescendo last night ahead of the election of a new chairman of the forum later today. Already, the two camps are strategizing and pulling strings to out-do each other through [...]
The governors of Yobe, Adamawa and Borno states and their council chairmen are in for unpleasant times as they have, under the current emergency rule arrangement, been stripped of their powers. A major loss to the governors in this respect is that they will, while the emergency rule lasts, be stopped from having direct access [...]
Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state yesterday said government would not use tax payers’ money to subsidise Pilgrimage. He stated this when he granted audience to the zonal federal commissioners and officials of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC) at Government House, in Benin City. “For those who want to travel for pilgrimage, we cannot [...]
Contrary to the expectation that the federal government might immortalize Professor Chinua Achebe by naming a national monument after him, President Goodluck Jonathan only jokingly promised that Nigeria and Ghana would jointly renovate Ogidi Central School, which Achebe attended. The president made the promise at the burial service of the literary icon at St. Philips [...]
Suicide bombers in Niger detonated two car bombs simultaneously yesterday, one inside a military camp in the city of Agadez and another in the remote town of Arlit inside a French-operated uranium mine, killing a total of 25 people and injuring 29, according to the ministry of defence. The timing of the attacks, which occurred [...]
Former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Professor Rufai Ahmed Alkali says that Nigeria is not an accident of history adding that every nation evolved through peculiar or unique circumstances. He equally advised the PDP not to take the emerging All Progressives Congress (APC) for granted. He speaks on these and other [...]
Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mariam Aloma Mukhtar, yesterday urged the newly sworn-in acting Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Justice M.I. Bukar, to lead by example. Apparently referring to recent developments in the court under retired CJ, Justice Mohammed Gummi, the CJN asked the acting Chief Judge to ensure that [...]
Gada Local Government Council of Sokoto state said it has paid over N10 million as compensation to residents of Gada town for the land it acquired from them to construct housing unit. This was disclosed by the council chairman, Alhaji Garba Mohammed Kyadawa in an interview with newsmen. Kyadawa said that the land would be [...]
A team of journalists, including ABDULRAHMAN A. ABDULRAUF, recently engaged the Minister of Works, Arc. Mike Onolememen, on the state of Nigerian roads, during which he reeled out the modest achievements recorded in the sector amidst tough challenges State of Nigerian roads From Kebbi, Calabar, Uyo, Enugu to Owerri, the picture one has of the [...]
Against the backdrop of increasing man-made and natural disaster in the country, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) is soliciting support from relevant ministries, departments and agencies to curb the menace. Its Director General, Mohammad Sani-Sidi, also harp on the need for establishing a virile Emergency Management Agency at state and local government levels. Sani-Sidi, [...]
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