By Charly Agwam – Bauchi  There is confusion over the health status of Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment, Mrs Maryam Katagum after she slumped while on an official engagement in Bauchi State. The minister, who was in Bauchi on Monday to launch an empowerment programme at Sanin Malam Plaza suddenly slumped as […]

Governors of the Southern States of Nigeria on Monday met in Lagos to deliberate on matters affecting the region just as the governors of Cross River and Anambra states were again from the crucial gathering.

By Rotimi Ojomoyela The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Ikere-Ekiti branch has described as lawless and undemocratic, the Saturday’s clampdown on peaceful Yoruba nation agitators in Lagos. The Association said the Federal government action was not only antithetical but strange and unknown to any democratic settings across the globe. The chairperson of Ikere-Ekiti branch of NBA, […]

“I think they should tell Igboho ‘we made a mistake’, ‘we should not have acted in this way’, ‘you are no longer wanted’, ‘go back to your home, in fact escort him to his home’ and let him resume his normal life.”

Workers in the nation’s power sector, on the platform of the National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, have served the Federal Government a notice of industrial unrest over planned sale of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, warning of its threat to national security, among others dangers.