By Bala Ajiya
DAMATURU — Chairman of the All Nigeria Peoples’ Party (ANPP) in Yobe State, Alhaji Inuwa Nguru, has said the party is ready and willing to re-absorb members of the Senator Usman Albishir faction of the party in the state and work with them.
Alhaji Nguru who spoke with Vanguard after the verdict [...]
By Wole Mosadomi
MINNA — Hospital equipment worth N800m have been delivered to the Niger State government and ready for immediate distribution to various hospitals and health care centres in the state.
Speaking at the flag-off ceremony of distribution of the equipment to seven renovated, upgraded and three newly built hospitals in Minna yesterday, Governor [...]
THE dust is yet to settle over concerns raised by pharmacists under the aegis of the Phamaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) over what is described as “defective appointment procedures†in sensitive regulatory agencies including the Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN) and the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC).
The Forum of Organised Opposition Political Parties (FOOPP) in Rivers State has condemned those it described as Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) fugitives in Abuja and the Federal Government for distracting Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi in his efforts to give the people more dividends of democracy.
IN what many would described as endorsement of River’s Governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, as the PDP’s standard bearer in the 2011 election, National Secretary of the party, Alhaji Abubakar Baraji, yesterday in Port Harcourt, cleared the governor to run on the platform of the party in the next gubernatorial election.
Early this year, a Non Governmental Organization held a national summit on Violence Against Girls in Schools. As part of that event, girls from schools in various parts of the country and from primary through tertiary institutions converged on Abuja.
FORMER Chairman of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, and a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olabode George and five other members of his board were yesterday sentenced to 28 years jail term without an option of fine by an Ikeja High court.
THE National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reported last week a decline in the inflation and interest rates, which analysts attributed to the current banking reforms and the relative stability in the prices of crude oil which they believed may have returned Nigeria to the path of economic stability.
By Vincent Ujumadu
AWKA—The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra State has planned what it called a unity rally to take place in Awka today to drive home its position that the state executive of the party was still in firm control of the majority members of the party in the [...]
What was that show of might before unarmed civilians all about? Why was it necessary for the Airforce to transport by road military hardware(?) that could be better airlifted? Where were their cargo planes?
The aura and the enthusiam of the defendants and their lawyers were high. They were hopeful and convinced that they have done their best and also proved their innocence on the 68-count charge levelled at them.
For OLABODE GEORGE, yesterday would be one very long nightmare.Like a bad dream, it is one day he would never like to remember. A politician, Nigerian politicians have always loved to cherish their name more than any other thing.
PRESIDENT of the Senate, Chief David Mark and a delegation of Nigerian Senators on an oversight visit to Sudan survived an air emergency, yesterday, after the landing right of their military plane was cancelled mid-air by the Sudanese authorities.
The G-16 Heads of Regulatory Agencies has given a thumbs-up to the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), for its leadership role in ensurimg high standard and good quality of drugs.
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