Senator Muhammad Adamu Bello, has explained that the absence of internal democracy in All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, forced him to defect to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP

Flights to Yakubu Gowon Airport Jos have been cancelled following the closure of the runway after an Aero Air plane had a minor accident while landing on Saturday

FOLLOWING the release of N87.7 billion to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and President Goodluck Jonathan’s assent to the amended Electoral Act, political parties and some stakeholders, yesterday, urged the commission to proceed with the polls without further delay.

FROM his resting bed in London, Chairman of The Patriots and Vice Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Council, PAC, Prof. Ben Nwabueze, SAN, yesterday took a critical look at the operation of Nigeria’s presidential system and returned a damning verdict: The cost of running the system is too high.

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, weekend, said it has written to the special adviser to the United Nations Secretary General on Prevention of Genocide and African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, asking for an urgent investigation into the recurrent disturbances in Jos.

AS the strike by members of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, Oyo State chapter, enters eight weeks, a meeting between the state government and the union to broker truce has deadlocked.

Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in Oyo State, has accused Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala, of fanning embers of discord between two factions of the state chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, for alleged selfish political ambition.

Lagos State Government has urged members of the public to be vigilant and observe a high standard of personal and environmental hygiene following outbreak of cholera in some states.

The Badagry-Seme Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, realised about N3,628,205,483.13 as revenue between January and July, this year.

A panel of in-quiry has been set up by the Medical Director of Edo State-owned Specialist Hospital, Benin, Dr. Matthew Oriakhi, to unravel the circumstances surrounding the death of a mother of triplets, Mrs. Olufumilayo Egharevba, in the hospital after a successful caesarian operation.

A fresh outbreak of measles epidemic has reportedly claimed the lives of 18 children in the riverine settlement of Onewari in the Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.

A fresh outbreak of measles epidemic has reportedly claimed the lives of 18 children in the riverine settlement of Onewari in the Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.