The Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly recently repealed the controversial amendment of the Governors and Deputy Governors’ Pension Law

The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has said the only way to encourage investors to build more refineries in the country, is to create favourable business environment through deregulation of the downstream sector.

I had sworn that my first visit to Osogbo would be to its world-famous Osun Sacred Grove. Instead, I attended a “mega” rally in the historic town of Iwo, one of many at which Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola is asking the Osun people to renew his mandate as their governor

The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has absolved itself of owing the Federal Government the sum of $218 million oil revenue.

Newly appointed Vice Chancellor of the University of Abuja, Professor Michael Adikwu, has ignored the court order restraining him from acting in that capacity, having continued to perform the functions of the varsity’s chief administrator.

Minister of State for Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike, has declared that the interventionist programmes to create access to basic education for less privileged children in the country would be sustained by the President Jonathan’s administration for national development.

A frontline governorship hopeful in Delta State, Obarisi Ovie Omo-Agege, has said he was in the 2015 governorship race to uplift the socio-economic lives of the people of the state.

The Kano State Hisba Board yesterday said 55 people were arrested and convicted for alcohol consumption in Kano during the ongoing Ramadan fasting.

The Director-General, National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Alhaji Mohammad Sani-Sidi, yesterday called for greater cooperation among responders in emergency response and mitigation in the country.

EIGHT hotels and a private primary school have been sealed in Anambra State, following default in payment of revenue amounting to N2.9 million for the 2012/2013 fiscal year.

The Rivers State Government has announced plans to invest in the upstream and downstream sectors of the oil and gas industry, and also to boost gas supply in the state and across the country.

On July 1, 2014, the Nigeria Medical Association, NMA – umbrella body for medical profession in Nigeria, embarked on nationwide indefinite strike to press for implementation of a 24-point demand from the Federal government. On Monday July 7, the NMA held an emergency delegates meeting with top government officials in Abuja. The meeting, which lasted […]

ABUJA— The leadership of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has moved against another All Progressives Congress, APC, governor, few minutes after the Adamawa State House of Assembly indicted Governor Murtala Nyako of gross misconduct.

Efforts towards the integration of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, have received a boost with the decision of the Authority of Heads of State and Government to ban residence permit and introduce a common Biometric Identity Card for all citizens of the sub-region.

The Kwara State Government has said that it would sink 10 boreholes at the 22 Armoured Brigade of the Nigerian Army, Sobi in Ilorin to ease problems of water scarcity in the barracks.