By Emma Amaize, Regional Editor, South-South  CHIEF Political Strategist  to the Delta State Government, Dr. Festus Okubor, in an interview with Saturday Vanguard, shed light on why group of academics, media practitioners, sociologists and other Anioma stakeholders, who are still carrying out consultations, came up with the idea to float an umbrella body, Anioma Progress Union, APU, […]

By Dapo Akinrefon Speaker of the House of Representatives , Mr Femi Gbajabiamila, on Friday, commissioned five refurbished nursery/primary schools, four streets, three new ICT centres, and a new Agricultural Training Centre building in his Surulere 1 Federal Constituency.  According to the Speaker’s office, the streets, with solar-powered streetlights, are Ashimowu Bakare, Oshogbo and Omilani […]

The two factions of the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) in the Ebonyi State University (EBSU), Abakaliki have issued conflicting directives to their members over the union’s current nationwide warning strike. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that while the Dr Godfrey Nwambeke-led Caretaker Committe declared that it would not join the […]

By Olasunkanmi Akoni The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, NAHCON, has solicited for the support of Lagos State Government on its Public-Private Partnership, PPP, initiatives. Lagos Deputy Governor, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, however, expressed the state government’s readiness to support NAHCON, as usual. Hamzat made the pledge on Wednesday, while receiving the Board members of NAHCON, […]

By Peter Duru, Makurdi Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state has vowed to ensure the arrest and prosecution of all those behind Wednesday’s skirmish over the ownership of fish ponds located within the Wurukum Riverside in Makurdi town. The Governor who condemned the violence between the Tiv and Jukun fishermen in the area over the […]