2027: Ogun PDP Rep candidate, Ogunbanjo, emphasises effective representation at campaign flag-off
The House of Representatives candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for Ijebu Central Federal Constituency, Wale Ogunbanjo, has told the people of the constituency that only effective representation at the National Assembly could guarantee them the needed dividends of democracy. Ogunbanjo, who earlier represented the constituency between 2003 and 2007, said at the flag-off […]
Fake drugs: Life jail awaits offenders — FG
By Daniel Idonor ABUJA – AN end of the road appears to be on the ways of fake drug dealers in Nigeria as the Federal Government yesterday resolved to offer a life jail sentence to anyone caught by the law. To this end, government, through the Ministry of Health, has directed the National Agency for […]
2011: Plot to replace Yar’Adua with N-East gov thickens
By Daniel Idonor ABUJA - A thicken plot by some powerful Northern men in the ranks of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to ensure that a second-term governor from the North-East run for the 2011 presidential election should the incumbent President Umaru Yar’Adua declines to run in the political race, yesterday filtered into the air. […]
Family obeys Gani’s wish
In obedience to the wish of the late human rights activist and Lagos Lawyer Chief Gani Fawehinmi, the family members have dug his grave beside that of his late mother Alhaja Munirat Fawehinmi who died six years ago.
Give education priority, AC chieftain urges Nigerians
A chieftain of the Action Congress (AC), Chief Yomi Ogunnusi, has called on the various arms of government and well-meaning Nigerians to give priority attention to adequate funding of education sector in the country.
Gani, pillar of our struggles – Lagos workers
WORKERS in Lagos State, yesterday, described the late fire brand lawyer as the pillar of workers’ struggles and a genuine social crusader who believed that a just, fair and egalitarian Nigeria is possible.
Graft: Court grants group leave to compel ICPC to probe Ogbulafor
By Anayo Okoli Umuahia-A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted an Aba, Abia state based human rights group, Human Right, Justice and Peace Foundation (HRJPR), leave to apply for an order of Mandamus to compel the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission (ICPC) to investigate the National Chairman of the Peoples […]
FG asked to resuscitate doctors’ one-year training abroad
The National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria Thursday called on the Federal Government to resuscitate doctors’ one year training abroad even as it disclosed that no fewer than 4,000 medical and dental specialists had been produced by the college since its inception.
Militant leaders’ rift deepens, as rival group invades Boyloaf’s camp
The crisis of confidence rocking the ongoing disarmament of former war lords in the troubled Niger Delta Wednesday took a new twist, as the camp of Victor Ben Ebikabowei (Boyloaf), MEND’s field commander in Bayelsa State, was reportedly invaded by John Togo and his boys who carted away cache of arms and ammunition.
Gbaramatu students appeal to govt for rehabilitation grants
IJAW students of Gbaramatu extraction in Delta State have once again appealed to government at all levels to come to their aid through rehabilitation grants to enable return to school after the militants/JTF violent clash of May that rendered their parents and guardians homeless.
Eagles send Okocha into momentary madness
Austin Jay Jay Okocha was enveloped by momentary madness the moment he saw Tunisia’s Derragi Oussma run into a wide space created for him by Taye Taiwo.
NDWC asks militants to key into Yar’Adua’s amnesty scheme
The Niger Delta Welfare Committee (NDWC) has charged non-repentant militants in the region to immediately key into President Yar’Adua’s amnesty programme, saying violent militancy had become a thing of the past.
Ex-Commissioner calls for national confab on traditional medicine
By Chioma Obinna & Oluchi Muogbo LAGOS – Former Kwara State Commissioner for Health and Publisher of Healthcare magazine, Dr. Bola Olaosebikan, has called for a national conference on traditional medicine where state governors would be in attendance to discuss strategies to support, promote and develop traditional medicine in Nigeria before the end of the […]
NULGE canvasses LG autonomy
AKURE – NATIONAL Chairman of the caretaker committee of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), Alhaji Olanrewaju Basiru Wednesday called for the autonomy of local government system in the country. Basiru said the “constitutional hindrances on the local government administration must be removed during the effort at reviewing the constitution of the country. […]
Sokoto approves N5.2bn for roads construction
Sokoto – THE Sokoto State Government has approved the dualisation and construction of a total of 60.2 kilometres of roads to the tune of N5.2 billion. Briefing newsmen shortly after the monthly State Executive Council meeting, Commissioner of Finance, Alhaji Faruk Malami Yabo, said the 9.7km Tashar Illela–Kara– Gidan Man Ada road, on the western […]
ASUU Strike: FUTO Governing Council urges work resumption
OWERRI—As the nation’s educational system continues to wither under the lingering strike action by Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and other University-based unions in the country, the Governing Council of Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO) has appealed to its workers to resume normal academic and associated activities in the University in the interest […]
