BY DAPO AKINREFON Leaders of thought from the South-West have enjoined Yoruba people to participate in all processes leading to the National Cconference in order to realise aspirations for Yoruba autonomy within the country. The leaders also set up a committee to harmonise the Yoruba agenda to the proposed National Conference and integrate all Yoruba […]

here is a strong indication that the Federal Government may soon place total ban on importation of rice, fish and other food items into the country.

THE Edo widow controversy is a poignant illustration of the power of the media in a democracy. The Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, had gone out on a routine inspection and stumbled upon a woman who was selling her articles of trade on an unauthorised spot on the road, thus blocking the traffic.

The U.K government has signed an agreement with the Nigerian government to implement the 2050 Pathways Calculator in Nigeria

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A health worker in Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State is on the run after allegedly stealing a one-week old baby from her mother while posing to be a well wisher.

The Federal Government yesterday took the initiative to decongest existing ports in the country as it approved a $1.35billion contract for the construction of a new Deep Sea Port in Lekki, Lagos State.

Despite the ultimatum given by the Federal Government to the striking university lecturers to call off the strike or face the risk of being sacked, the lecturers have remained resolute in their stand, saying they would only shift ground when government does the right thing.

The Nigerian Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (NASME) has faulted plans by the new owners of Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN)to increase electricity tariff, asserting that it is inappropriate and uncalled for.

The Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, yesterday, disclosed that over 362,112 public officers, comprising chief executives and political office holders it invited to present their personal assets for verification refused to do so.
Consequently, the bureau said it had concluded plans to forward their names to the Code of Conduct Tribunal for prosecution.

President Goodluck Jonathan left Abuja Tuesday morning with his wife. She is expected to see her doctors in a German hospital.

Nigerian football fans are excited over the nomination of five of the nation’s top players for the 2013 edition of the Glo CAF Awards scheduled for Lagos on January, 9th, 2014. It is the highest for any country.

Outrage, yesterday, greeted the proposal for a single term for the president and governors by the Deputy Senate President, Chief Ike Ekweremadu, describing it as another form of tenure elongation.

There was pandemonium, yesterday, in Ajegunle area of Lagos State after commercial motorcycle operators popularly called Okada riders stormed the streets in protest against the killing of a colleague by a commercial bus.

Electricity consumers have said that there was no justification for the rising estimated bills handed to them by the Distribution Companies, DISCOs, in view of the worsening power supply situation in the country.