An Abuja High Court sitting in Maitama, yesterday, slated Monday to determine who the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, should regard as the authentic flag bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the forthcoming governorship election in Kogi state.
Mr Ositadinma Ikwelugu , t, the National Chairman of Luxurious Bus Drivers Association of Nigeria, has urged the Federal government to stop motorists from embarking on night journey.
Effective communication strategy has been described as a veritable tool which could be used to sell the various reform agenda of the Federal Government to the populace to receive encouraging response.
Volunteers are still finding dozens of bodies in Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte that fell on October 20, including of Libyan civilians killed in a suspected NATO air strike.
As Benue State government commences the free distribution of two million Long Lasting Insecticide Treated Nets across the state, paramount rulers in the state have lamented the rising cases of deaths associated with malaria parasite, describing the free distribution of the nets to combat the menace as a laudable initiative that would effectively stem the rising cases of maternal and childhood killer diseases across the country.
Like his screen twin, Chinedu Ikedieze alias Aki, who was accorded recognition last year by the federal government amid controversy, diminutive actor, Osita Iheme popularly known as Paw-Paw will be among the six Nollywood stars announced on Thursday by the government as recipients for this year’s National awards.
Montenegro defender Miodrag Dzudovic has written to UEFA calling for leniency for Wayne Rooney as the England striker awaits his 2012 European Championships fate, reports said Saturday.
Edo State chieftain of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Elder Olu Ashoko recently berated the Assistant Publicity Secretary of the state Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Bisi Idaomi over an interview she granted by saying Oshiomhole is not Edo’s expected messiah.
In a keenly contested software competition involving 16 schools from the Nigerian tertiary institutions yesterday at the African premier business resort Tinapa, Calabar, Cross River state, three students from the Abia State Polytechnic won the 2011 national software Innovation cup organized for students in the Nigerian tertiary institutions.
The management of National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, says the federal government has started fine tuning arrangements to restructure and add more values to the scheme.
Managing Director of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigerian (FAAN), Mr. George Uriesi yesterday affirmed that the Federal Government was set to upgrade most of the airports across the country with the sum of N19 billion.
As protests continued to trail October 22, 2011 council polls in Lagos, Gov Babatunde Fashola of Lagos state will today preside at the swearing-in ceremony for the newly elected chairmen of the 20 Local Government Areas and 37 Local Council Development Areas, LCDA, a signpost for the formal take off of administration at the grassroots.
MINISTER of labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu yesterday took the lobby of the federal government on the proposed removal of fuel subsidy to the National Assembly, with a plea with the Senate to support the move.
CONTRARY to popular belief that the Federal Government had done extensive consultation before its pronouncement on oil subsidy removal, the umbrella body of Christians in the country, Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, yesterday denied any knowledge of such a plan.
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