Governor Babtunde Fashola of Lagos State has expressed his administration’s commitment and determination to all matters affecting pensioners and their well being.
The tussle for power in Nigeria’s premier social club, Island Club, is getting keener and messier following months of bickering and litigation between feuding camps.
In a bid to mobilize women to participate actively in the 2011 general elections, wife of the President, Dame Patience Goodluck Jonathan will on March 1, 2011 flag off the Peoples Democratic party, PDP South-South Women’s zonal rally at the U .J. Esuene Stadium, Calabar in Cross River State.
THE House of Representatives, yesterday, passed the Anti-Terrorism Bill 2011. The bill seeks to provide measures for the prevention, prohibition and combating of acts of terrorism as well as punishment for violating any of its provisions.
GOVERNOR Sullivan Chime of Enugu State has called on the National Insurance Commission, NAICOM, to re-double efforts to redeem the image of the insurance industry in the country in order to restore peoples’ confidence in that sector.
Nigeria’s Ibrahim Galadima is one of six eminent persons contesting for two seats on the all-powerful FIFA Executive Committee at the 33rd Ordinary Congress of the Confederation of African Football in Khartoum, Sudan on Wednesday.
CONTRARY to insinuations that the Olubadan of Ibadan had asked the former Governor Rashidi Ladoja of Oyo State to step down from his governorship ambition, he has denied being called upon by the monarch.
AS part of moves to boost the campaign of President Goodluck Jonathan, the Presidential Campaign Council yesterday launched an e-Campaign option, designed to lobby well over 65 per cent of Nigerian registered voters.
Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, yesterday, blamed the high mortality rate from measles on underutilisation of measles vaccine.
The member representing Aboh Mbaise constituency of Imo State, Chief Mike Iheanetu, has said there was no truth in reports that the State House of Assembly was planning to impeach Governor Ikedi Ohakim and speaker, Chief Goodluck Opiah.
Sunshine of Akure striker, Ibrahim Ajani said that he was hungry for goals after he found the net in his club’s 3-0 demolition of Kano Pillars at the weekend.
ACTIVITIES at the University of Benin, UNIBEN, and the Benin-Lagos Road were crippled for several hours yesterday, when thousands of Bini youths protested what they described as the “diabolic” inclusion of the University on the list of universities to receive Visitation Panel by the Federal Ministry of Education.
AT a time, 111 of the world’s 192 nations have abolished the death sentence, with others on their way to doing so, our National Assembly wants to add to the five offences that already attract the death penalty under our laws.
The national senior team, Super Eagles will on Wednesday fly out to the United States of America to take part in this year’s United States’ President’s Holiday Celebration Soccer Tournament, otherwise known as the Green Bowl Soccer event.
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