By Abdallah el-Kurebe Sokoto – Sokoto state government is to spend a total of one billion two hundred and twenty-eight million nine hundred and sixty-three thousand eighty-seven naira four kobo (N1, 228,963,087.04) for the execution of various projects in the state. The projects include roads construction and rehabilitation, supply of text books and medical equipment, […]

By Dennis Agbo ABAKALIKI-PARTICIPANTS at a national conference for the revamping of local government system in Nigeria has recommended a zero-party electoral system at local government areas, as a means of correcting the current defective electoral process and checking corruption and bad leadership at the third tier of government. The forum observed that corruption and […]

By Dennis Agbo ABAKALIKI- Owing to increase in  crime rate, particularly in snatching of money, the Police in Ebonyi State have recommended that the public as much  possible should do away with carrying cash but transact  business with  cheques. Commissioner of Police in the state Kachi Udeoji made the recommendation in Abakaliki after series of […]

By AbdulSalam Muhammad KANO — Kano State Governor, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau has expressed his desire to challenge President Umar Musa Yar’Adua for the presidency if given the mandate by the All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP) in 2011. Shekarau, who spoke in Kano during a roundtable discussion with the state-owned newspaper (Triumph) however, hinged his final […]

By Daniel Idonor ABUJA — THE Presidential Panel on Amnesty and Disarmament for Militants in the Niger-Delta has adopted a grassroots consultative meeting with militants and other stakeholders with a view to assuring them of the Federal Government’s committment towards solving the vexing issues of the region through the recently-offered amnesty and other developmental policies. […]