FEDERAL Roads Maintenance Agency, FERMA, has tasked Nigerians to challenge their governments at the state and local government levels on what they do with their share of SURE-P funds.

Former Ekiti State Governor and Interim National Vice Chairman (South West) of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Otunba Adeniyi Adebayo has described the defection of a House of Representatives member, Opeyemi Bamidele to the Labour Party, LP, as the latter’s biggest mistake in his political career.

Today should have marked the end of the ultimatum given by the Supervising Minister of Education, Barr. Nyesom Wike to members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to either defy the 5 month-old strike embarked upon by the union and resume duties or get sacked.

The ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, will, for a variety of reasons, be imprinted in the sands of time. One undeniable reason for this is the passing of a former ASUU President, late Prof. Festus Iyayi, who died on November 12, 2013, in a road accident on his way to attend the ASUU NEC meeting in Kano State.

BY Austin Ogwuda Asaba—BARELY one month after the resolution of a looming industrial unrest by public servants in Delta State, the state wing of Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, yesterday, issued a 21-day ultimatum to shut down public primary and secondary schools in the state if its demands were not met. Recall that  Delta State council […]

A former member of the House of Representatives, Farouk Aliyu has accused Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State of chickening out of the G7 Governors forum for selfish reasons.

The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, said yesterday that it had presented relief materials to about 300 Internally Displaced Persons, IDP, occasioned by last Monday’s attack by suspected members of the Boko Haram Islamic sect on military formations in Maiduguri.

Alarmed by the audacity of illicit drug dealers in his state, Kano State Governor, Dr. Musa Kwankwaso, has warned the barons to flee the state or be crushed.

Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) president Aminu Maigari says he is not setting the Super Eagles any targets for the 2014 Fifa World Cup in Brazil.

OVER 1,000 patients at the Benin Central Hospital were discharged, late Tuesday, from the hospital as a result of the strike by the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, in Edo State.

Though doctors were not part of the strike, the action affected the nurses and other staff of the hospital that ensured that the hospital was under lock and key, yesterday.

*Says government handed over public assets to their friends By  Emeka Mamah Enugu—Former Minister of Finance and National Planning, Dr. Chu S.P. Okongwu has criticised the poor handling of the privatisation of the power sector, saying that what the Federal Government actually did was to hand over public assets to their friends in the name of […]

The Defence Headquarters, yesterday, presented a list of over 500 terror suspects, including a medical doctor working for the World Health Organisation to the Presidency for trial.

AHEAD of flagging off this year’s edition of the annual Calabar Festival, the Cross River State Government has discovered more talents in the state to boost the entertainment industry.

The Federal University of Technology, Akure, through its Centre for Entrepreneurship, CENT, has commenced the training of Cocoa Pruners who are being taught modern skills in cocoa pruning that will enhance better yield.

Winners have emerged in the third edition of the UBA National Essay Competition for Senior Secondary Schools in Nigeria .