GOVERNOR Theodore Orji of Abia State has commended doctors of the state’s teaching hospital for suspending their five-month-old strike.
THE Association of Enugu State Professionals has said the removal of Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo as Peoples Democratic Party’s national chairman might not bring the necessary respite needed by Governor Sullivan Chime for an unfettered return to Government House in May, saying there were other obstacles that could mar his ambition.
THERE are indications that Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, will today (Wednesday) reshuffle his cabinet in a bid to re-strategize and refocus it ahead the forthcoming general elections.
NATIONAL leader of the Ijaw nation, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, yesterday described as malicious, falsehood and blackmail, reports in a national daily (not Vanguard) that he is carrying out voters’ registration in his Warri residence but explained that internally displaced persons of Ayakoromo taking temporary refuge there were being registered by Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
Lagos State House of Assembly, yesterday, approved N450.778 billion for 2011 budget as against N445.180 billion presented by the state Governor, Babatunde Fashola, December 14, 2010.
President_General of the Nigeria Football Supporters Club, Dr. Rafiu Ladipo has urged all parties in the on_going dispute for the sponsorship of the Nigeria Premier League to embrace the peace process initiated by the Honourable Sports Minister and Chairman of the National Sports Commission, Professor Taoheed Adedoja. Ladipo spoke in Lagos on Tuesday shortly before departing for Abuja for consultations with football stakeholders.
A $15 millions deal for the financing of Phase III construction of Agbara Estate has been signed in Lagos. The deal which was initialed in Lagos on Friday is between Abbey Building Society, FMO, a Dutch firm and Agbara Estates Limited.
The South-South Parliamentary caucus of the House of Representatives yesterday said not more than 50% of eligible voters in the South-South geo-political region had been registered as a result of several challenges the exercise was facing.
Cocoa prices surged to near its highest price in 30 years as U.S. trader Cargill complied with demands for an export ban from top producer Ivory Coast by Alassane Ouattara, who aims to stop cash reaching his presidential rival.
MINISTER of State for Education, Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi, a founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is a leading personality in the Delta Chapter of the party.
Former Senate President, Senator Ken Nnamani has denied media reports linking him with a Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, gubernatorial aspirant in Enugu State.
There has been a twist in the death of former Eagles’ defender, Uche Okafor as the Federal Investigation Bureau (FBI) claimed in a report yesterday that the player was murdered.
AS the battle for who becomes the next National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, hots up, there may have been a major set back for one of the contenders, Chief Olisa Metuh, the National Vice Chairman, South-East of the Party as an Anambra State High Court yesterday stopped him from performing the functions of his office.
The race to the Ahmadu Bello Government House, the seat of power in Ilorin, the Kwara State Capital is to say the least very unpredictable. The coast is now clear and the potential governors in April 2011 gubernatorial elections have emerged.
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