Ijaw youths, under the aegis of Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, yesterday, flayed Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State over his claim that President Goodluck Jonathan was sponsoring the Boko Haram sect in the North East states of Yobe, Adamawa and Borno.

By Anayo Okoli UMUAHIA — Abia State Governor, Chief Theodore Orji, has approved a 20 per cent reduction in school fees across board for the state owned university, Abia State University, ABSU, Uturu. Before the reduction, ABSU fees were one of the highest in the country which forced many students to drop out. According to […]

There was pandemonium, weekend, at the Chevron Escravos Terminal in Delta State, as the Escravos branch of the Seamen and Water Transport Workers Union, one of the wings of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, clashed with the management of Chevron Nigeria Ltd, during which the union gave a 21 day ultimatum to the company to fix an employment impasse involving it and the company or face a forceful shut down of its operations in the area.

The Jigawa State chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, and Governor Muazu Babangida Aliyu of Niger State have kicked against autonomy for local government councils in the country.

Former governor of Nasarawa, Akwa Doma and two others, yesterday, lost their bid to force Justice Agather Okeke of the Federal High Court, Lafia, to hand off the case of money laundering being preferred against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

The alleged plan by Ogun State governor, Senator, Ibikunle Amosun to give automatic tickets to some of his loyalists may have torn the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state apart.

On the top 10 performing stocks last week were shares of P.Z Cusson Plc, Livestock Feeds Plc, Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc, Costain (West Africa) Plc, Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc (DSR) and May & Baker Plc.

One thing that is close to the heart of Former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon Rtd., is the Masterplan put up by his administration decades ago to shift focus of the healthcare sector towards assuring the wellness of the average Nigerian citizen.

Despite evidence that more governments are paying greater attention to youth through public policy initiatives, a new global report launched last week by the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA has shown that young people as a whole still confront many obstacles that keep them from safely moving into adulthood and entering the workforce.

Nigeria’s House of Representatives committee onenvironment has demanded Shell to pay $3.96 billion, (aboutN604billion), for the 2011 spill at its offshore Bonga oilfield of damage to the environment. The non-binding decision comes after years of analysis by various Nigerian state agencies, which have proposed a range of fines as high as $11.5 billion.

LAGOS — Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, unfolded plans by his administration to introduce Septic Management Plan, SMP, to standardise septic activities in the state.

SEVEN members of Cross River State House of Assembly, who contested the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, primaries on Saturday seeking re-election to the House in 2015 lost their bid with some losing to relatively unknown opponents

By Umar Yusuf YOLA—The intra-party squabbles within the Adamawa State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, reared its ugly head yesterday as the declaration of results of the state House of Assembly primaries was conducted amid confusion and tension. The election was conducted Sunday as against Saturday as the issue of the delegates continued […]

Ikechukwu Uche hailed Villarreal’s team spirit following Sunday’s 2-0 victory over Cordoba in La Liga.

Bayelsa United goalkeeper Kazeem Yekeen has said he cannot be part of the Nigeria U-23 team because he is over the age.