The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has urged the Benue State government to urgently address the issue of excess taxation of workers in the state service to avert a crisis and a strain in Labour-Government relationship.

Disturbed by the acute shortage of water supply bedevilling Dutse metropolitan, the Jigawa State Ministry of
Water Resources has set up a 12-man committee, saddle with the responsibility of finding a lasting solution to the problems.

FOLLOWING the successful screening of ministerial nominees by the National Assembly, Association of Petroleum Industry Professionals, APIP, has called on Acting President Goodluck Jonathan to appoint a knowledgeable industry professionals to lead Petroleum Ministry.

Governor Bukola Saraki of Kwara State has charged religious leaders to use their sacred position to promote acts that will unite us as a country and de-emphasize those things capable of dividing us.

THE Anambra State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, has taken delivery of relief materials estimated at N30 million for distribution to victims of flood and other disasters in Ihiala, Ekwusigo and Oyi Local Government areas of the state.

AN Anti-Corruption and Transparency Monitoring Unit, ACTU, has been inaugurated by the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital Enugu, FNHE, in line with the directive of Federal Government to all its parastatals.

DISTURBED by the increasing cases of corps members dying during their national assignment, Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Brig. General Maharzu Tsiga has said that adequate security measures have been put in place to ensure that corps members are protected any where they are serving in the country.

ACTIVITIES marking this year’s Easter celebration, the resurrection of the progenitor of the Christian faith, Jesus Christ, across the country were rounded off Sunday as Christian leaders used the occasion to preach hope, peace, love and forgiveness. Nigerians who took advantage of the long holiday to travel up country to spend the Easter are expected to return to their bases Monday.

Former members of the House of Representatives, under the aegis of the Former Members of House of Representatives Forum, have called on the Federal Government to prosecute sponsors of the recurring crisis in Jos and its environs as a way of providing a permanent solution to the crisis in the area.

ONE person was confirmed dead while two others sustained severe gunshot wounds in the renewed fighting that broke out at the weekend between the Oruku and Umuode communities in Nkanu East Local Government Area of Enugu State.

Akwa Ibom State governor, Chief Godswill Akpabio, has given the assurance that his administration would continue to focus on the creation of more opportunities for all indigenes and residents to maximize their potentials in the state.

By Olasunkanmi Akoni & Monsur Olowoopojo LAGOS— THE Lagos State government has disclosed plans to introduce a new housing law aimed at ensuring a sustainable food production in the state, just as it urged youths in the state to establish facility management companies that could help maintain new and existing infrastructures in the country. The […]

A Judge sitting in the High Court of Lagos State in Lagos Judicial Division, Justice Y. A. Adesanya (Mrs), has issued Form 48, a notice of consequences of disobedience to court against Lagos lawyers, Fetus Keyamo and Tony Onyima of the Sun newspapers.

The Cross River government has vowed to unmask those it described as fifth columnists who were behind last Wednesday’s incident at the Margaret Ekpo International Airport in Calabar in which a car driven by one Anieniok Elijah Okon crashed into an Arik Air plane t about to take off from the airport.

As Christians in Lagos celebrate Easter with the rest of the world, Governor Babatunde Fashola, has called for consolidation of the gains of democratic governance even as most of the Christians in the state stayed in doors to observe the celebration.