By Isiaka Oyibo LOKOJA – RIVERINE communities along lower River Niger have been urged not to disrupt the on-ongoing dredging of the river saying that when completed it was capable of providing employment opportunities for the people as well as lead to springing up of new ports, jetties and industries for their overall benefits. The […]

By Victor Ahiuma-Young RIGHTS activists under the aegis of  Education Rights Campaign (ERC), has condemned Police arrest, detention and brutalisation of pupils of some secondary schools in Kogi State who were protesting alleged state government’s insensitivity to the welfare of teachers in the state which has made the teachers to embark on series of strikes […]

The Yoruba Council of Elders (Igbimo Agba Yoruba) yesterday lent its voice to the lingering face-off between President Umaru Yar’ Adua and Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State over the creation of 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs), saying the decision was ill-advised.

By Etop Ekanem THE United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has suspended the Y-CARE project agreement with Young Women Christian Association of Nigeria (YWCA. The two-year-old Y-CARE Project which began in 2007 is an HIV/AIDS project designed by YWCA Nigeria and sponsored by USAID to ensure the war against HIV/AIDS is waged on all […]

ONDO State government yesterday declared that the 1,015 persons employed in the twilight of the last administration in the state as “Environmental Vanguards” failed to follow due process. It also said with effect from next year January promotion examination will form part of the ‘clearly defined performance criteria in efforts to rejuvenate the civil service and set it on the path of rebirth and growth”.