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.

Governor Mukhtar Ramalan Yero of Kaduna State has relieved all Development Area Administrators of their appointments following the expiration of their tenure in office.

In addressing prison congestion, Lagos state government says its judicial system has sentenced 789 offenders to various terms of community service across the 12 magisterial districts of the state, in the last 100 days.