More women have increasingly been stripped of their choices in the social system only to be given full regards in the area of procreation deu to the continuous laws by some governments in the wake of civilization . For instance, in Iran, Draft legislation aimed at boosting a flagging birth rate threatens to reduce Iranian women to “baby-making machines” and set their rights back by decades.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised the alarm at the seemingly-targeted killing of its members and supporters in Rivers as this month’s general elections draw nearer, wondering whether those who are bent on suppressing the opposition at all costs have finally unleashed their killer snipers.

The Senate, Wednesday, okayed Senator Musiliu Obanikoro’s second coming as minister. Opposition from All Progressives Congress, APC, Senators and few members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, last week stalled screening of the former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, for ministerial appointment. The APC Senators had protested the inclusion of Obanikoro following […]

THE waning hopes of proponents of generational shift recently received a new surge of life with the emergence of the youthful Julius Gbabojor Pondi, who clinched the House of Representative ticket of the ruling party, the People’s Democratic Party to vie for the seat of Burutu federal constituency.

Some senators from the Northeast zone on Tuesday lauded the efforts of the Nigerian Armed Forces for successes recorded in the fight against insurgency. While raising a point of order at the floor of the Senate, the senators said that just as they had raised alarm when the insurgency was at its peak, it was only right also commend successes.

THE March 12 rescheduled Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, election holds tomorrow amid plethora of unresolved issues that if swept under the carpet, the Congress and indeed, Labour movement, could not only lose its pan-Nigerianism or Africanism, but also die a natural death.

A Traditional Ruler in Edo South, the Enogie of Oghobase has pledged support to Governor Adams Oshiomhole and ensure victory for his party, the All Progressives Congress, in the forthcoming elections based on the numerous developmental projects in the state.

Former Chief of Army staff and Minister for Defence, General Theophilus Danjuma tuesday met with President Goodluck Jonathan behind closed doors at the official.

OSOGBO—Civil servants in Osun State trooped out yesterday to protest alleged non-payment of five months salaries by the state government.

ormer Vice President and chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC), Atiku Abubakar has said that his commitment to the APC and the success of its presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari and other candidates of the party in the 2015 general elections is unwavering and never been up for bargaining.

IT is important to ask at this time if the ruling Peoples Democratic Party is really interested in contesting the rescheduled 2015 elections. This question has become pertinent in view of what looks like a deliberate attempt by the party to continue to stonewall any attempt to have the election until such time as it feels ready for it. The ‘filibustering’ tactics of the PDP are too obvious to be ignored.

This development it was learned was as a result of shortage of Computer-Based Test, CBT centres in Lagos State to cater for the huge number of candidates billed to write the exams.

According to the Public Relations Officer of Joint Admission Matriculation Board, JAMB, Mr. Benjamin Fabian, Over 1.4 million candidates will be writing this year’s UTME across 400 CBT centres nationwide.

Former President Ibrahim Babangida yesterday discountenanced prospects of an interim government or his role in such saying that the conditions that gave rise to the contraption in 1993 were non-existent under Nigeria’s flourishing democratic system.

LAGOS—GOVERNOR Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State, has challenged the jurisdiction of a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos to hear the suit against him and others by embattled Ekiti State House of Assembly, Speaker Adewale Omirin and 18 other members.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday rolled out its governors in a concerted attack on the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Maj-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), warning among others that Buhari planned to serve only one term and derail rotation between North and South.