People think my pace is fast because I moved to Nigeria in February 2008 and I’ve only been here for about a year. However, if you think about when I started making music officially, which was in 2003, five years of constant hard work and pouring your savings into a dream without making money from it is not an overnight success.

Sokoto – The Sokoto Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has described as “hasty” the suspension of two of its members by the states Information Ministry and the Management of the Rima Radio. The suspension order on the duo was sequel to the reportage of an alleged false news. The suspension was announced […]

Our challenges are numerous as an association that sees to the welfare of persons with disability, especially the spinal cord injured ones

Bauchi – The Bauchi State Government has earmarked N150 million for the construction of three ultra modern grain silos, as part of efforts to boost agricultural activities in the state. The Commissioner for Agriculture, Alhaji Tanko Dutse, who disclosed this in Bauchi yesterday said the silos would be constructed under joint partnership between the State […]

By Uduma Kalu & Anayo Okoli UMUAHIA—Abia State Governor, Chief Theodore Orji, said that the state hopes to  improve on its internally regenerated  revenue in order to meet its development targets and campaign promises. According to him,  it was due to the lopsided financial strength that has made it impossible for some state governments to […]

By Vincent Ujumadu Awka – The Anambra State chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA, Akunwata Mike Kwentoh, has advised the governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Dr. Alex Obiogbolu to tread softly on his aspiration, urging him to desist from activities that tend to portray some individuals in the […]

Owerri – The Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) has pledged to intensify efforts to restore power supply in Owerri and its environs. Some residents of Owerri and environs have been without electricity supply while others have had epileptic supply in the last six weeks, following a fire which gutted the Egbu sub-station of the […]

By Anayo Okoli Umuahia – ABIA state House of Assembly has passed into law a bill, establishing Abia state House of Assembly Service Commission, which will guarantee some level of autonomy to the workers of the state House of Assembly. However, the passage of the bill was not without complaints by some people, especially civil […]

Kaduna – The Federal Ministry of Works and Housing said, yesterday, that the Kaduna River bridge was safe for motorists. Speaking in Kaduna, the Federal Controller of Works, Mr Mobolaji Fowler, said the 30-year-old bridge would be safe for motorists for the next 20 years. Fowler made the clarification following speculations that the bridge was […]

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, queried, yesterday, the jurisdiction of a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos to hear the suit filed by former Managing Director of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Dr. Erastus Akingbola.

Gombe – The Gombe State Ministry of Health said, yesterday, that it has concluded the process of transforming Gombe State Action Committee on HIV and AIDS (GOMSACA) to a full-fledged agency. Dr Mohammad Umar, the Commissioner for Health, said in Gombe that a draft bill had been sent to the state Governor and House of […]

26 members of Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly have threatened to decamp from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party should the National haedquarters of the party continue with moves to reduce Governor Akpabio’s political powers by harmonizing the hierarchy of the state party executives, just as factions within the party is deepening.

Benin National Congress (BNC), a socio-cultural organization in Edo state, has appealed to Amnesty International and the Red Cross Society to urgently come to the aid of hundreds of Nigerians facing execution in Libya and Morocco .

The second group “discovered” that I am a tribalist for not endorsing the re-appointment of Soludo and for welcoming Sanusi. Today, as we all start understanding how the banking sector had been thrown into a turmoil in the last four years, and feeling the lash, it will not matter if you are Igbo, Efik, Birom, Yoruba, or Nupe, you will be involved in this calamity.

THE Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company Limited (WRPC), Ekpan, Delta State, may be dragged to court for alleged failure to comply with the contractual agreement it entered into with Afrogus Limited on disposal of 500 metric tones of scraps.