Ten secondary school teachers are reported to have died of food poisoning, and several others hospitalised in Katsina.

Enugu – Pan-Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohaneze Ndigbo, has applauded President Goodluck Jonathan’s appointment of Sen. Pius Anyim Pius as Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF).

So have some Enugu residents who described the appointment as a step in the right direction.

Chief Nduka Eya, Secretary-General of Ohaneze Ndigbo on Tuesday in Enugu said  [...]

Angry reactions have continued to trail what Imo people called “the senseless and unnecessary confrontation between the police and loyalists of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, in Owerri”.

THE leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has concluded arrangements to organize a two-day retreat for president Goodluck Jonathan, Vice President Namadi Sambo, Senate President David Mark, and the governors elected on its playform.

The Federal Government has said that for farmers to be empowered in the country, research in agriculture must be made to work for them.

GOVERNOR Ibikunle Amosun has appointed Mr. Taiwo Abiodun Adeoluwa as the Secretary to the State Government,SSG.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, University of Ado Ekiti chapter, has dragged the state government to court over the removal of the former Vice Chancellor of the institution, Prof Dipo Kolawole.

STRIKING doctors of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology,
Teaching Hospital said, yesterday, that Governor Sullivan Chime and his government have not demonstrated enough commitment to resolve the issues that led to the seven months old industrial action and would, therefore, not heed the governor’s call to return to work.

DELTA State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, who took his oath of office on Sunday for a second term, confessed that he knew the risk that was involved when he decided to embark on certain reforms during his first term.

Ebonyi State House of Assembly, yesterday, passed into law a bill to amend the State’s Specified Officers Pensions and Related Matters, No. 2 of 2007 which provided for continued salaries as pensions to former governors and deputies elected under any democratic dispensation in the state.

Nigeria could be the world’s third most populous nation by 2100, with 700 million people, American economist Jeffrey Sachs has said.