A High court sitting at Ughelli, Delta State has restrained Globalcom Nigeria limited and one Chief Peter Igbini from further trespassing on a portion of land belonging to one Chief E.K. Stanley Onosigho, pending the hearing and determination of the substantive Suit No. UHC/36/2009.

The Federal Government has set a four-year tenure renewable only once for permanent secretaries in the federal civil service. An authoritative source said yesterday in Abuja that President Umaru Yar’Adua had already approved the new regime.

NDOKWA East local government councillors yesterday protested their purported suspension in Asaba, insisting that due process was not followed and said the suspension was of no effect.

Nigerians here mocked the Federal Government yesterday when news of their N250m vote to host the meeting of Africa’s sports ministers reached Berlin , venue of the on-going World Championship, the equivalent of Fifa World Cup.

By Dennis Agbo Abakaliki – Ebonyi state government has provided the sum of N185.2million for the restoration of pipe borne water in the ancient city of Afikpo and its Uwana environs. The state government said it noted with concern that Afikpo and its surroundings, have been experiencing epileptic  water supply for upward of five years, […]

PART of a building being constructed at the back of the office of Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State collapsed yesterday injuring no fewer than eight workers at the site.

The Ac tion Congress (AC) in Bayelsa State has hailed the decision of the All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP) to withdraw from the unity government initiated by Governor Timipre Sylva.

By  Anayo Okoli Umuahia – Hundred of youths from Isikwuato Local Government Area of Abia state, yesterday stormed the Abia State House of Assembly, to protest the continued use of appointed transition chairman to run the council. The youths said they want an elected chairman to handle the affairs of the council. Isikwuato is the […]

Speaking during the swearing-in ceremony of members of the state Civil Service Commission and Local Government Service Commission, the governor also assured that civil servants in the state who merited it could now rise to level 17 in the service like their counter parts under the Federal Government.

THE controversy trailing the operation of secret accounts by a political office holder in the immediate past administration in Ondo State took another dimension yesterday as the two banks in which the funds were allegedly lodged said that the accounts were not secret but known to the state government.

The magnitude of work Nigeria requires to raise track and field to the level that will make impact in the world is daily dawning on the new board of athletics federation.

As governor of Abia State between 1999 to 2007, Dr Orji Kalu was an engaging personality. He distinguished himself as a fearless and outspoken governor. He exposed the principles and tenets of democracy. He was a loyal member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, but he never fagged in telling the then president Olusegun Obasanjo, that his actions or utterances were wrong whenever he perceived it so.

New world 800m champion Caster Semenya has shrugged off the gender controversy shrouding her victory at the World Championships in Berlin.

By Chidi Nkwopara Owerri – Imo State Government has warned members of the public, who lead youths into violence and unnecessary death,  that waging war against the Nigerian state is not a legitimate action, no matter their grievances. Governor Ikedi Ohakim stated this when he inaugurated the new board of Imo State Oil Producing Areas […]

Amaka Ogoegbunam is a super Nigerian athlete. In July, she was a sensation at the African Junior Championship in Mauritius .
She won gold in the 200m, 400m hurdles and 100m hurdles.