Abuja – The Presidency says it considers a communiqué issued by some ethnic and sectional groups assembled in Abuja recently as the shedding of crocodile tears by selfish leaders. Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, stated this in a statement issued in Abuja on Friday. He noted that the […]

A South Korean court sentenced former president Park Geun-hye to eight more years in prison on Friday after finding her guilty on charges of causing loss of government funds and interfering in a 2016 parliamentary election.

Social media giant,Twitter Inc.,  has announced the appointment of Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to its board.

ABUJA- THE Senate has threatened the Nigeria National Petroleum Company (NNPC) as well as oil and gas companies involved in the execution of the Obite-Ubeta-Rumuji (OUR) and North Option Pipeline (NOPL) Gas Pipelines Projects to appear before it and explain the astronomical cost of completing the two major gas pipeline projects by Ethese companies. 

FORMER Commissioner for sports in Enugu State, Barr. Ray Nnaji, yesterday said that if the Federation of International Football Association, FIFA, bans Nigeria they would challenge the oraganisation in the court of arbitration to know whether its has right to meddle in a country’s internal affairs.

Ag President of National Youth Council of Nigeria Comrade Chinedu Mayor Enujeko was Live at AMANA RADIO STATION in GOMBE STATE. 98.1 fm to welcome Nigerian Youth Delegates for the Historic Elective Congress of Nigerian Young People.

The Commissioner of Police, Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Mr Haliru Gwandu, yesterday, said the Nigeria Police has designed a Standard Operational Procedure, SOP, for operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, to help reform its activities.

ASSOCIATION of Local Governments of Nigeria, ALGON, yesterday, said it would mobilise against the Minister of Finance,  Mrs Kemi Adeosun, if local government areas do not  get their allocations from the Federation Accounts and Allocation Committee, FAAC, in one week.

THE Sultan of Sokoto, Mohammed Sa’ ad Abubakar, yesterday, warned that the quest for peace in the country may continue to elude it until leaders embrace justice in their actions.

It was all joy and excitement for students, staff of Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital and residents of Anambra state as they received brand new sets of hospital supplies from MTN Foundation under it’s Emergency Ward Intervention project.

THE Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Lt. General Tukur Buratai, has renamed the 21 Brigade, located in Bama, Borno State, as Special Forces Brigade.

My contribution to this Colloquium is summed in the following proposition: Nigeria’s overcentralised federal system is a major explanatory factor for its poor development performance. The three assumptions in the proposition will be discussed in turn: evidence of overcentralisation; evidence of poor development performance; and demonstration of linkage between the two.  Then, I will proffer some desirable remedial measures.

Minna—Authorities of Federal University of Technology, FUT, Minna, Niger State, has expelled a doctoral student, Olateju Ademola Mukaila, for plagiarism while three undergraduates were also expelled for overstaying in the institution.

WARRI—Justice Godwin Gbemre (retd)  has called  for an end to discriminatory practices in the Delta State Judiciary against  judges from the private bar.

Special Assistant to Governor of Delta State on Community Development, Prince Pedro Luke,  has charged political party’ executives to  be involved in adequate voters education at the grassroots.