By AbdulSalam Muhammad KANO — Ahead of tomorrow’s May Day celebrations, Kano State Government has approved the enhancement of salaries of various professional cadres in the state civil service. Sequel to the development, government has directed payment of over N1.1 billion arrears to be paid installmentally within a period of eight months. Briefing the press […]

By AbdulSalam Muhammad KANO — Kano State Government has renamed the state television station, CTV44, after the first civilian Governor of the state, Alhaji Muhammadu Abubakar Rimi Television, ARTV, in recognition of his immense contributions to the state. Briefing journalists shortly after the State Executive Council meeting in Kano, spokesman of the government and the […]

By Susan Edeh BAUCHI — A senatorial aspirant and a retired Comptroller of Customs, Malam Ali Wakili, has described politicians who prefer pasting their posters in order to get across to the electorate in their wards as being lazy. He said they should take the pains to meet the electorate in their wards and villages. […]

By Anayo Okoli Aba—Ntiagha Mbano Owoghiafor community has selected a new traditional ruler.  He is Eze Amadi Azuogu, who has also been presented to the authorities of Obingwa Local Government Area. The selection and presentation of Azuogu to the council as the Eze Amara II of Ntigaha Mbano Owoaghafor autonomous community,  according to the Secretary-General […]

PLANS have been concluded to honour some prominent Niger-Deltans including, governors and Speakers in the nine states of the region. The event is being organised by Niger-Deltans in Diaspora with headquarters in London.

The Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, has again suffered a security breach, as a woman sneaked through a private terminal to board an Abuja-bound Aero Contractor flight without ticket.

A management consultant, Mr. Kalada Apiafi, yesterday said Nigeria’s political leaders alone could not be relied on to rescue the country.

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Bauchi State Command, has arrested 10 suspects with substances suspected to be Indian hemp, weighing 226.410kg which amounts to over N100 million.

By Henry Umoru ABUJA— FOLLOWING the sack of the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Maurice Iwu, some journalists have received text messages with a threat that they will soon be dealt with like Dele Giwa and others. The text message which was sent with GSM number 08063623794, had the following names, Gbenga Aruleba […]

AGAINST the backdrop of perceived lost of power by the North occasioned by the ill-heath of President Umaru Yar’Adua and the possibility of Acting President Goodluck Jonathan contesting the 2011 polls, the Chairman of the Northern Governors’ Forum, NGF and Governor of Niger State, Dr. Muazu Aliyu Babangida, has urged northerners to wake up to the stark realities of the situation on the ground and stop taking things for granted.

THE controversy trailing the genuineness of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, registration card shown by the former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as evidence of his return to the party deepened, yesterday, as the faction loyal to the Governor, Admiral Murtala Nyako and Senator Jubril Aminu said that everything would be done to frustrate the return bid.

NO fewer than 15 policemen brandishing guns brutalized, handcuffed and detained the Ondo State Correspondent of The Nigerian Tribune Mr Yinka Oladoyinbo on Wednesday.

THE Federal Government appears to be worried over the reforms introduced by Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, as Presidency sources said the reforms have had devastating effects on the economy.

Unions in the aviation industry, yesterday, raised an alarm that Aerocontractors was on its way to collapse, following the noose tightened on it by Oceanic Bank Plc over the N30 billion debt owed the bank

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has provided a credit fund worth N50 bllion to the Lagos State government as part of measures to enhance the agricultural sector in the state.