Contrary to what an expartriate colleague said to me in 1976 (after the coup that toppled Gen Yakubu Gowon from power and the bloody overthrow of his successor, Gen Muritala Mohammed) that “I am happy that I am not a Nigerian”, I am proud to be a loyal Nigerian citizen Nigeria is a country of absolute beauty and of continually changing phases. But I must confess that Nigerians are as unpredictable as the English weather.

MEMBERS of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly are dogged in their pursuit of ensuring that Governor Tanko Almakura is impeached on account of the 16-count allegations against him.

Dr. Gani Enahoro is Naib Amir south Eastern zone; the Vice President, African Veterinary Association, AVA and Immediate Past National President, Nigerian Veterinary Medical Association, NVMA.

Mr. Caleb Muftwang, the chairman of Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State and the secretary of the state branch of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria, ALGON, in this interview responds to questions on his stewardship, the relationship between the state and the council and applauds the exceptional shrewdness and sincerity of the Jonah Jang administration in the matter of council funds Excerpts:

Executive Secre-tary of the Nigerian Shippers Council, NSC, Hassan Bello, has warned that the Council as the economic port regulator will not accept any form of arbitrariness in charges or abuse of dominate position by any operator.

Generally, all acts of worship, through financial expenditure are by broader definition classified as Sadaqah. But by extension, good deeds and acts that tend to save or ameleorate the suffereings of another creature of God are also considered as sadaqah.

THE Minority Whip of the House of Representatives, Mr Samson Osagie, yesterday, said those blaming Asiwaju Bola Tinubu over their exit from the All Progressives Congress, APC, were people who are lily livered in playing opposition politics in Nigeria.

By Gbenga Olarinoye OSOGBO—Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Osun State and its candidate in the August 9, gubernatorial election, Senator Iyiola Omisore, yesterday formerly filed a petition before the Governorship Elections Petition Tribunal at the state High Court, Osogbo, challenging the results of the election in 17 local government areas of the state. This came […]

Former Minister of State for Women Affairs during the administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo, Princess Olufunke Adedoyin, has called for more participation of women in all levels of governance to enable them contribute their quota towards the socio economic and political growth of the country.

THE Anioma Agenda, a political pressure group in the North senatorial district of Delta State has announced an 11-point benchmark for those seeking to govern the state in 2015.

Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State, yesterday, said despite the decline in federal allocation, his administration will continue to give priority to the welfare and well-being of its workforce.

The battle to contain the spread of the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, in Nigeria suffered a setback, yesterday, as the virus evaded a surveillance team in Lagos and claimed its first victim, a medical doctor in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Governor of the state, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi and the Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu both confirmed the news.

THE Federal Government has formally launched the National Policy and National Action Plan on Child Labour to facilitate the elimination of child labour in Nigeria aimed at ensuring that Nigerian children are provided with the bright future to be proud of.

Ecobank Nigeria may have begun plans to riase additional capital in order to boost its tier-1 capital. Vanguard gathered that the bank’s total capital adequacy ratio at the end of the first half of 2014 stood at 13.3 per cent.

Nigeria last week took delivery of a deep sea vessel constructed by Remomtowa Holdings for the Nigerian Institute of Oceanography and Marine Research at a ceremony witnessed by the first lady, Dame Patience Jonathan in Gdansk, Poland