Kogi to build $85bn municipal solid waste recycling plant
The Kogi State government last week, unveiled plans to build a solid waste recycling plant worth $85 billion to help curtail the myriad of environmental challenges facing the state.
Delta South PDP chair endorses Edevbie for guber
Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Delta South senatorial district, Sir Simeon Efenudu, has described Olorogun David Edevbie as the best governorship aspirant to succeed Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan in 2015.
2015 POLLS: Ex-UNN Dep VC urges youths to shun violence
Ex-Deputy Vice Chancellor, Administration, University of Nigeria Nsukka, UNN, Professor Malachy Okwueze, has called on Nsukka Zonal Youth Council Forum to shun violence during 2015 elections.
Ezza people endorse Elechi’s senatorial ambition
EZZA nation has given its nod for Governor Martin Elechi of Ebonyi State to take a shot at the National Assembly to represent Ebonyi Central senatorial zone in 2015.
NERDC decries NASS’s approval of N30m, instead of N270m
The Executive Secretary of Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council, NERDC, Professor Godswill Obioma, yesterday, decried the approval of only N30 million of the N270 million appropriated for it in 2014 budget by the National Assembly.
FG had no hand in Buhari bomb attack- IGP
ABUJA — Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba, yesterday, declared that the Federal Government had no hand in the deadly attacks on former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari, and Shiekh Dahiru Bauchi by Boko Haram insurgents two weeks ago.
FG appoints Sultan of Sokoto as leader of 2014 Hajj
President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the appointment of members of the Federal Government delegation to the 2014 Hajj, with Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, as National Amirul Hajj and leader
Tension in Enugu over dethronement of monarch
Tension is mounting at Amadim-Olo in Ezeagu Local Government Area of Enugu State, following the dethronement of the community’s traditional ruler, Igwe Hayford Agana, by Enugu State government for allegedly associating with the Deputy Senate President, Chief Ike Ekweremadu
Rights activists protest poor state of Nigeria
Members of the Nigerian Human Rights Community, NHRC, yesterday, stormed major roads of Lagos to register their displeasure over the state of the nation
Governorship debate: Aregbesola, Omisore, Akinbade absent
The PDP, APC and LP candidates, Senator Iyiola Omisore, Alhaji Fatai Akinbade and Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola failed to show up the debate organised by the Osun council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ in collaboration with broadcasting stations in the state.
Defection: Oyinlola on edge
Anxiety over the political direction of erstwhile governor of the state, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola was at feverish pitch yesterday with claims that he would be defecting to the All Progressives Congress, APC from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP today.
