Enugu bans unapproved beauty pageants
The Enugu State Government has banned staging of beauty pageants in the state without approval from the government, according to the state's Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, Mr Joe Mamel.
PDP BoT: Anenih’s second coming
It is hardly surprising that Chief Tony Anenih, patriarch of the defunct Social Democratic Party, SDP, and Leader of leaders of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has gone back into battle immediately after accepting to be the Chairman of the PDP Board of Trustees -to wit; to reposition the party for the challenges of the future.
Mixed reactions in Bayelsa over state pardon to Alamieyeseigha
The state pardon granted by the Federal Government to former governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, has continued to generate mix reactions among Bayelsans.
Labour flays casualisation of workers in maritme sector
MARITIME Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, yesterday, in Lagos, said the increasing outsourcing, casualisation of workers and other forms of anti-workers’ policies in the shipping/courier sector of the nation’s economy were serious inducements for insecurity.
Health Minister urges parents to embrace polio immunisation
The Minister of State for health, Dr, Ali Pate, has urged all parents in the country to embrace polio immunization to save their children from being paralised by the polio virus, explaining that it is in the best interest of the children, their families and the nation to immunize them.
EFCC detains deposed Taraba Dep Gov over N1.3 bn fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has declined to release former Taraba State Deputy Governor, Alhaji Sanni Abubakar Danladi, who was arrested by its operatives on Wednesday morning over mismanagement of funds meant for the execution of Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, projects in the state.
