The recent threat by electricity workers to embark on nationwide strike has sparked a controversy. While some people especially industrialists fear that further blackout portends negative consequences for the economy, the executive director operations, Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), Abuja, Mr. John Ayodele, in an interview, says the workers have no reason to go on strike.

 Governor Bukola Saraki of Kwara has presented staff of office to the new Olofa of Offa, Oba Mufutau Gbadamosi. Governor Saraki, on the occasion, urged the monarch to provide effective leadership to his subjects, so that the legacies of accelerated development in the community could be sustained. The Governor enjoined the monarch to use the […]

 The Anglican Bishop of Oru Diocese, the Rt. Rev. Geoffrey Chukwunenye, has appealed to members of the National Assembly to incorporate the Justice Uwais Committee report into the  nation’s constitution. Rev. Chukwunenye made the appeal in his presidential address to the second session of the first synod held at Emmanuel Anglican Church, Oru West local […]

THOSE familiar with contemporary Nigerian history will recall how erstwhile vice president Abubukar Atiku was manipulated out of the octopal Peoples Democratic Party, PDP ahead of the 2007 presidential elections. Neither will they forget in a hurry the intrigues and manipulations that made characters like Rotimi Amaechi to employ a tortuous legal voyage before they were able to restore their stolen mandate to rule over the people of Rivers State.

Nigeria and the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) are scheduled to commence tomorrow a census of all Liberian refugees resident in the country to assess their needs, an official statement said Friday. Tens of thousands of Liberians who fled bloody civil warfare in their country poured into Nigeria about 20 years ago.  The exercise, is […]