Members of National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, Akwa Ibom State chapter, have protested the perceived harsh regulatory measures by the state government on the location of private motor parks in the state.

By Austin Ogwuda Asaba—RESIDENTS of  Illah, Ebu and neighbouring communities in Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State, who were earlier assured that the collapsed Illah-Ebu Bridge will be fixed by July 20, have had their hopes dashed following the inability of the construction firm to meet the deadline. Managing Director of Federal Roads […]

By Tony Edike ENUGU—Embattled Enugu State Deputy Governor, Mr. Sunday Onyebuchi, continued with his evidence before the impeachment panel, yesterday, revealing that Governor Sullivan Chime also operated poultry and piggery farms at Government House. He told the panel that the government had since 2011 made annual budget for the maintenance of the poultry, adding that […]

Project Director of Niger Delta Environmental Restoration Project, NDEREP, Prince David Omaghomi has said that the only way the tripod legacy projects of the Federal Government in the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dockyard, the Shipyard, Nigeria Maritime University, NMU, and the Export Processing Zone, EPZ, Gas City Projects can be realised in Delta State is if the President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration continues in office beyond 2015.

President Goodluck Jonathan has been told to ignore pressure to negotiate with the Islamist sect, Boko Haram.

Senator Enyinninya Abaribe, erstwhile deputy governor of Abia State and presently the senator representing the Abia South Senatorial District is one of the major aspirants in the Abia State governorship contest. In this interview he speaks on his prospects and plans.

Those suspended were Justices Chika Okoli (Anambra), Ya’u Dakwang (Plateau), and both the Chief Judge of Ekiti state, Justice Kayode Bamisile and the former acting chief judge of the state, Justice Jide Aladejana”.

CALL him a man of destiny and circumstance or a man of honour, commitment and courage, you wil not be accused of exaggeration because at 62 he has succeeded in keeping a date with history.

NIGERIA is set to take on the rest of the world with the “9jaBOLT” Eaglemobile, a state-of-the-art prototype, and solar-powered racing automobile that is designed and built in Nigeria by Nigerians. History was made recently when Nigeria secured Africa’s sole entry to compete with its revolutionary prototype in the next edition of the prestigious World Solar Challenge, coming up in October 2015 in Adelaide, Australia.

President Goodluck Jonathan has said that Nigeria will become an automobile exporting nation very soon, noting that his administration is committed to the National Automobile Policy. He made the statement on his facebook page on Tuesday.

THE zoning arrangement adopted by the Abia state’s ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) through its Equity Legacy is receiving some knocks.

The hardest of the knocks seem to come from the Abia North and Central senatorial zones, two areas that have produced state governors in the past.

Though the PDP zoned some principal political offices in the state from councilors to governor, some PDP aspirants in the two zones are jostling for the governorship and some top slots in spite of the fact their zones fall outside the favoured areas.

Ibom State caucus at the 2014 National Conference has kicked against planned moves to create Oil-Rivers State, saying that it was designed to scuttle the final report of the Conference.
In a protest letter to the Chairman of the Conference, Justice Idris Kutigi, the 13 delegates led by former governor of Akwa Ibom state, Obong Victor Attah, former Minister of Lands and Survey, Chief Nduese Essien, described the recommendation to create the new state from Akwa Ibom and Rivers states as treacherous and harboured a hidden agenda.

Violence erupted in an Ebola quarantine zone in Liberia’s capital Wednesday as authorities struggled to contain the deadly disease, while new suspected cases in Asia sparked fears of it spreading from Africa.

Four residents were injured in Monrovia’s West Point slum when soldiers opened fire on crowds and used tear gas as they tried to evacuate a state official and her family from the quarantined quarter.

An experimental drug treatment can help monkeys survive an otherwise deadly infection with a tropical virus called Marburg, which is similar to Ebola, researchers said Wednesday.

ABUJA- The All Progressive Congress (APC) has appointed former military Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), former, Vice-President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Sen. Ahmed Bola Tinubu into its members Board of Trustees.