Prevalence of fake lawyers worries CJN
Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mahmud Mohammed yesterday said the prevalence of fake lawyers in the country is negatively affecting the integrity of the legal profession as well as casting a...
View ArticleReps direct probe on N800m Okpella Water Scheme
House of Representatives yesterday mandated its Committee on Water Resources to investigate the current status of the N800 million Okpella Water Scheme with a view to determine the level of work done...
View ArticleAPC calls for cancellation of Taraba guber poll
All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate for Taraba State in the April 11 polls, Senator Aisha Alhassan has called for the total cancellation of the results of the last Saturday’s...
View ArticleWe’ll work with you, Obama assures Buhari
United States President, Barack Obama, through the Vice President, Joe Biden has assured President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, of his readiness to work with him. In a phone call to Buhari on...
View ArticleElectoral reform under siege in Africa – INEC
Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC yesterday said the much requested electoral reforms in the country was under siege not only in Nigeria but in Africa thereby posing serious threat to the...
View ArticleGroups task Buhari on better living condition
All Progressives Congress-Patriotic Members Forum, APC-PMF and South East Muslim Youth Congress, SEMYOC, have congratulated the President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, urging him to improve the lives...
View ArticleMovement restriction: Court to rule on Lagos Govt application
A Lagos Federal High Court will today (Friday) rule on the application by Lagos State government seeking suspension of the judgment that lifted the ban on citizens’ movement during monthly sanitation...
View ArticleNPC asks MDAs to identify priority projects
Acting secretary, National Planning Commission, Bassey Akpanyung has called on federal ministries department and agencies to identify priority projects that could be packaged and marketed to the...
View ArticleAkume begs for release of Chibok girls
Senate Minority Leader, Sen. George Akume has pleaded with the abductors of over 200 students of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok to free them with immediate effect, saying continuous...
View ArticlePolice arrest 12 for post-election violence in Kogi
Kogi state Police Command has arrested about 12 people in the state as a result of post election violence. Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Sola Collins Adebayo made this known while speaking...
View ArticleEbonyi LP to challenge polls results in court
Ebonyi state chapter of Labour Party, LP, has disclosed its intention to challenge in court the outcome of the National Assembly, Governorship, and House of Assembly elections held in the state on...
View ArticleGunmen kill Delta NBA Chairman
Unknown gunmen on Thursday night killed, Mr Austin Icheghe, the Ughelli branch Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, in Delta. His niece, Egunor Uviesa, said that the NBA chairman was shot in...
View ArticleAirport traffic controllers suspend strike
Nigeria air traffic controllers on Friday suspended a strike that had grounded all domestic flights, but warned that a more damaging work stoppage would be launched next week if their demands were not...
View ArticleARFH expands service to 400 communities
Association for Reproductive and Family Health, ARFH, through its expanded social marketing project in Nigeria, ESMPIN, project has expanded its community based distribution services to over 400...
View ArticleRivers INEC holds re-run assembly election today
Independent National Electoral Commission INEC Rivers State, will conduct the House of Assembly election today, in the constituencies, where election wwere declared inconclusive, due to alleged...
View Article2015 Easter patrol: Road crashes reduced by 17 percent in 8 days
Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, has disclosed that about 115 road traffic crashes were recorded during the nationwide last Easter special patrol which lasted from 1st -8th April, 2015, translating to...
View ArticleSanitation: Court upholds Lagos’ stay of execution on judgment
A Lagos Federal High Court, on Friday, suspended the enforcement of a judgment which stopped the Lagos State Government from imposing movement restriction on citizens during the monthly sanitation...
View ArticleMy gov’t will prioritise youth employment – Buhari
Nigeria’s President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari has said that, tackling youth unemployment remains an issue his government will accord top priority when sworn-into office. He stated this in Kaduna...
View ArticleBandits storm Owo, raid banks with bombs
Dare devil armed robbers struck in Owo town, Ondo State, weekend, shutting down activities as well as paralising pedestrian and vehicular movement in the community. A resident, who spoke to our...
View ArticleNo segregation against non-natives in Ondo
Non- natives living in Ondo state have reaffirmed their support for the present administration in the state for providing basic socio-amenities to all the citizens where they live, work and play...
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