Movement for the Survival the Plateau People, MOSOP, has condemned the eve of Christmas bomb blasts in Jos. In a statement by Mr. Hussein Adamu and Mrs Edna Yelwa, President and Secretary-General of MOSOP, respectively, the group said: “The attacks has again added more pains to our sorrows in the hands of faceless murderers who have found a new job destroying the Plateau
THE much publicised South-South rally by the Atiku Abubakar Campaing Organisation billed to hold in Asaba, Delta State capital, yesterday, flopped as former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, General Ibrahim Banbangida, Prof Charles Soludo, Prof. Tam David-West and hosts of others expected to grace the occasion did not show up .
The Federal Roads Maintenance Agency, FERMA, has expressed regrets over the withdrawal of RCC Construction Company from Benin-Sagamu highway, promising to make the road motorable for travellers during this festive season
President Good-lucK Jonathan has approved the appointment of Mr. Ziakede Patrick Akpobolokemi as the substantive Director General and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA.
FEW days ago, the leadership of the two workers’ organisations, the National Union of Electricity, NUEE, and its Senior Staff, Association of Senior Electricity and Allied Companies, SSAEAC, counterpart, held an interactive meeting with Journalists and claimed among others, that the government has not informed them of its planned to privatise the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, and that all discussions with government’s representatives have been centred on attempts to re-negotiate agreements reached with PHCN’s management on their welfare and conditions of service.
The financial and economic crisis has cut global wage growth by half in 2008 and 2009, says a new report by the International Labour Office, ILO.
The controversies hallmarking the January 6, 2011 Delta State re-run governorship polls continued yesterday with one of the leading candidates, Chief Great Ogboru calling for the postponement of the elections because the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC is not ready.
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is to receive N46,423,833,865 from the federal purse in 2011 for its preparations for the general elections.
Coach John Obuh ,Wednesday, said that his decision to invite 35 players from the local scene to camp next month was informed by the need to offer the invitees the final chance to make a push to be on the Flying Eagles squad to the African Youth Championships holding next March in Libya.
The general assembly of the Nigeria Football Federation yesterday approved the sum of N6.8 billion budget for its programmes and activities in year 2011.
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, Wednesday, directed the indefinite suspension of planned toll collection on the Eti-Osa Lekki Epe Expressway billed to commence on Monday, January 3, 2011.
CONTROVERSY,Wednesday, trailed the rice distributed by a governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr Kenneth Imasuagbon, in the three senatorial districts of Edo State, as the state PDP accused the state government of instigating some individuals in the state to criticize what it described as the kind gesture of the guber aspirant.
AS a commitment to a mutually beneficial and long lasting relationship between Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, and her host communities, the oil giant has donated two community halls, water bole and electricity projects to Ajudiabo and Samagidi communities in Delta State.
Nine Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship aspirants in Bayelsa State, have rejected the special adhoc delegates’ election held in the state Tuesday, over alleged malpractices and irregularities that characterised the exercise.
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