Nigerian Pilot/Newsworld Awards: Akpabio, Onolememen, Suswam, Mohammed win
The 2013 edition of the Nigerian Pilot newspaper/Newsworld magazine Annual Lecture and Awards event which held yesterday inside Ladi Kwali Hall of the Abuja Sheraton Hotel and Towers climaxed with the...
View ArticleDialogue’ll give us acceptable constitution – Ekweremadu
Being excerpts of a paper presented by Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu at the 2013 edition of the Nigerian Pilot newspaper/Newsworld magazine Annual Lecture in Abuja, yesterday. It is a...
View ArticleSenate blasts APC over calls for President’s impeachment
Against the backdrop of the recent call by the All Progressives Congress, APC, to the National Assembly to commence impeachment process on President Goodluck Jonathan, Senate yesterday rebuffed them,...
View ArticleWhy we dumped PDP –Saraki, Gov Ahmed
Former Governor of Kwara State, Senator Bukola Saraki, has disclosed that he had advised the embattled chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, to avoid any unnecessary...
View ArticleImoke defies court order, swears-in ‘sacked’ council boss
Three chairmen-elect in Cross River sacked by a Calabar High Court were among the eighteen local government chairmen sworn-in on Monday by Governor Liyel Imoke. The election of the chairmen of...
View ArticleNIPR honours Mark, Yakubu, others …Inducts new members
Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) has bestowed honorary Fellowship on the Senate President, David Mark; former Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu and...
View ArticleKa’Oje blames building collapse on lack of minimum standard
Former Minister of Sport, Honourable Bala Bawa Ka’Oje has blamed incessant building collapse in the country on lack of minimum standard in building construction. Ka’Oje who stated this in Abuja at the...
View ArticleGov. Ahmed presents N125bn 2014 Budget
Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State yesterday presented the 2014 budget totaling N124, 525, 957, 113 billion before the State House of Assembly stressing that it is a blueprint for sustaining the...
View ArticleKogi elders want Ebira Language taught in schools
Chairman, Supreme Council of Elders in the Central Senatorial District of Kogi State, Senator Isah Abonyi Obaro has appealed for the teaching of Ebira Language at primary school level so as to protect...
View ArticleJunior Chamber International installs new chapter President
Abuja unity chapter of the Junior Chambers International, JCI, a youth-led organisation involved in the empowerment and development of youths in various communities in the country, over the weekend...
View ArticleGerman government organises training programme for NDLEA
German government has commenced a training programme for 29 officers of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA’s operatives. German Consular General, Mr. Michael Derus while flagging off the...
View ArticleInsurgency has nothing to do with religion – LEA boss
Abuja Municipal Area Council, AMAC, Education Secretary, Local Education Authority, LEA, of Abuja, Mrs. Grace Adayilo, has stated that the spate of insurgency experienced in parts of the country has...
View ArticleMeasles outbreak in Kogi worries Gov Wada
Worried by the outbreak of measles epidemic in some part of kogi state,the government has directed the stakeholders to increase uptake of immunization to prevent the spread of the disease. The State...
View ArticleOndo govt bags good governance award
Nigerian-American Chamber of Commerce, NACC, has nominated the Ondo State Governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, for its 2013 NACC Good Governance Award. The award presentation comes up today, Wednesday, at the...
View ArticleYou’re busybodies, PDP tells APC members
Lagos State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has berated the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress , APC, for meddling in its internal affairs, describing them as sadists and...
View ArticleEkweremadu calls for transformation of ECOWAS Parliament
Speaker of the Parliament of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, Senator Ike Ekweremadu has appealed to the ECOWAS Council of Ministers to fast-track the processes for the...
View ArticleOgun farmers, Fulanis sign MoU to end dispute
All issues resulting to the prolonged friction between farmers and Fulani herdsmen in Ketu, Yewa North Local Government Area of Ogun State and its environs have been laid to rest, as parties in the...
View ArticleNo SURE-P money missing – Okonjo-Iweala
Contrary to insinuation by the Senator Abdul Ningi-led Senate adhoc-committee on Subsidy Re-investment Programme, SURE-P, that an estimated N500billion money accruing from the programme was missing,...
View ArticleAssassination: Edo Police parade suspect, lover
A Benin based Pentecostal Pastor, Ndoka Nkanchukwu, has confessed to conspiring with his lover, Mrs. Isongoyo Enebong, in killing her husband, Mr. Victor Enebong, a manager with the NPDC who was found...
View ArticleGov Dickson appreciates Bayelsans for warm reception
Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson, has appreciated Bayelsans for the warm reception accorded him and his entourage during the Thank-You-Tour of the state. He said that it is an...
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