*FG to apply ‘no work no pay’ rule By Funmi Kimolafe Abuja – The renewed negotiation of the Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) broke down yesterday. Consequently, government has decided to apply the “No work, no pay” for the striking lecturers if they fail to suspend the strike and create a […]

By Kingsley Omonobi Abuja – Defence Minister and Chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Committee for Niger Delta, Major-General Godwin Abbe (rtd) said yesterday that contrary to belief in some quarters, there is no hidden agenda in the amnesty proposal of the Federal Government, noting that “It is real, it remains unconditional, it is a deal […]

Former Commonwealth Secretary-General, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, Monday urged Nigeria to take actions of disapproval against Republic of Niger following the constitutional changes in a referendum last weekend to elongate the tenure of President Mamadou Tandja.

The Chief Press Secretary to the state governor, Mr. Doifie Ola, said in a statement that media reports of the loan bond smacks off reckless fictionalisation of journalism, stressing that neither the governor nor any organ of the state government has initiated any move to take any bond.

The Coroner Court sitting in Yaba, Lagos, which is investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a member of the Thisday Editorial Board, Mr. Abayomi Ogundeji, will tomorrow temporarily move to Alagbeleye Specialist Hospital, Ikosi, Ketu area of Lagos State, to enable former Divisional Police Officer in charge of Idimu Police Station, ACP Johnson Adeniken, who is being treated for cancer in the hospital, to give his testimony on oath from his sick bed.