By Oscarline Onwuemenyi Abuja – The Petroleum Technology Development Fund has disclosed that it would partner the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs and the Rivers State Government to develop a skills training and development centre to be sited in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The Executive Secretary of PTDF, Alhaji Muttaqha Rabe Darma, who made the […]

THE management of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, Lagos, has appealed to the public to give useful information that could lead to the identification of three unknown patients lying critically- ill there.

The House of Representatives ad hoc Committee investigating activities in the oil and gas sector has urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to further investigate the alleged defrauding of the Federal Government by the Korean National Oil Company by $231 million.

Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs. Farida Waziri, on Tuesday met with all the newly- appointed managing directors of the five bailed out banks with a view to preparing a final list of loan defaulters.

The Federal Government has asked the university councils to resume negotiations with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

By  Chioma Obinna Lagos – Kanu Heart Foundation (KHF), has petitioned the Imo State Governor over what it described as ‘unnecessary delay’ in the release of N3.6 million approved by the State Governor for a heart summit it held in partnership with the State last year, even as it called on State governments across the […]

By Dennis Agbo Abakaliki – Mr Augustine Nwankwagu, Speaker of Ebonyi State House of Assembly, has  said there had not been any impeachment threat on him since the inauguration of the House on June 7, 2007. Nwankwagu made the disclosure in Abakaliki at the second  anniversary of the House, the third House of Assembly in […]

By Vincent Ujumadu Awka – Governor Peter Obi has vowed to end the frequent armed robbery and kidnapping in Anambra state in two weeks from now, insisting that the measures to be adopted would expose those behind the incidents, which have continued to portray the state in bad light. Addressing women from Agulu, his home […]

THE two vexed issues of operation of secret accounts and debt of N117b inherited by the present administration in Ondo State reverberated in the State House of Assembly yesterday as the Lawmakers asked the governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko to give more details about the debt.

Delta State chapter of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) has called on Delta State governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, to look into the state of decay at the Remand Home, Sapele, where teenagers sent there for reformation were merely dumped without proper care.