Gov kick against LG autonomy
Indications have emerged that Nigerian governors have perfected plans to mobilise members of their State Houses of Assembly to reject the autonomy granted local governments by members of the National...
View ArticleAllegation against Ugwuanyi: Nwodo, Eze, others react
Angry chieftains of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Enugu state yesterday reacted to a recent media report (not THE CITIZEN), alleging that loyalists of the speaker of the House of...
View Article‘NCC Yet to Decide on Physical Infrastructure Sharing’
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), which is the telecoms industry regulator, is yet to decide on the modalities for physical infrastructure sharing among telecoms operators. Executive Vice...
View ArticleNigerian airports handled 57.55m passengers in four years –Bureau
A total of 57,550,193 passengers used 22 Nigerian airports between 2010 and 2013; statistics released by the National Bureau of Statistics have shown. The report titled Summary Report of Passenger...
View ArticleEnugu 2015: Ugwuanyi picks nomination form for guber polls
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the governorship elections in Enugu State, Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, has collected the nomination forms ahead of the state primaries slated for November...
View ArticlePatience Jonathan resigns as Bayelsa Permanent Secretary
Wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, has resigned her appointment as Permanent Secretary in the Bayelsa State Civil Service. The 57-year-old Patience was said to have left the service...
View ArticleNLC summons emergency meeting over minimum wage
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday summoned an emergency meeting of its executive council on Monday to discuss the removal of wages from the Exclusive List to the Concurrent List by NASS. But...
View ArticleJonathan off to Israel today for pilgrimage
President Goodluck Jonathan will today depart from Lagos to undertake a brief pilgrimage to Israel.Special Adviser to the President ... The post Jonathan off to Israel today for pilgrimage appeared...
View ArticleOduah targets Anambra North senatorial seat
The former Minister of Aviation, Ms Stella Oduah, has begun mobilisation of the stakeholders’ support for her ambition to contest the Anambra North Senatorial District seat in the 2015 general...
View ArticleSudanese Ambassador to Nigeria dies in Abuja
The Sudanese Ambassador to Nigeria, Dr Tagelsir Ali, is dead, the country’s embassy confirmed on Friday in Abuja. The Media Advisor to the embassy, Mr Mohammed Abdulrahman, told the News Agency of...
View ArticleSynagogue Building Collapse: T.B. Joshua to testify on Nov. 5
Prophet Temitope Joshua, the founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, will on Nov. 5 appear before a coroner’s inquest investigating the recent collapse of its guest house. The Lagos State...
View Article28 ships berth in Lagos with palm oil, rice, petrol
Seventeen ships carrying rice, crude palm oil, bulk wheat, bulk sugar, frozen fish, bulk soya bean and bulk salt are expected at the Lagos ports . The Nigerian Ports Authority said this in its daily...
View ArticleGiwa takes over NFF office
The Chris Giwa-led board of Nigeria Football Federation has taken charge as ruled by the judiciary, a member of the board, Yahaya Adama, said on Friday in Abuja. Adama told newsmen at the Glass House...
View ArticleMy vision is to create prosperous Lagos – Ambode
Mr Akinwunmi Ambode, a Lagos State governorship aspirant, on Friday promised to create a clean, secure and prosperous state, if elected. Ambode made the promise at Onikan, Lagos Island, where he...
View ArticleMany injured in US school shooting
Investigators were responding Friday to a reported school shooting in Marysville, Washington, a spokeswoman for the Washington State Patrol has said. The shooting began in the cafeteria of...
View ArticleMillions of Ebola vaccines’ in 2015
Millions of doses of experimental Ebola vaccines will be produced by the end of 2015, the World Health Organization has announced. It said “several hundred thousand” would be produced in the first half...
View ArticleTwo US Ebola nurses free of virus
Two nurses infected with Ebola while caring for a dying patient in Dallas have been declared free of the virus. One of them, Nina Pham, had a meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House,...
View ArticleFayose swears in Judge who headed his impeachment panel
Ekiti State Gover-nor, Mr Ayo Fayose yesterday stunned the people of the state when he swore in as a judge of the state the man who in 2006 headed his impeachment panel. Fayose equally announced the...
View ArticleEnugu PDP: Vita Abba resigns as Chairman, Ikeje Asogwa steps in … I disagree,...
The State Executive Committee meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Enugu State Chapter was held on Saturday held at the Party Secretariat in Enugu has appointed Chief Ikeje Asogwa as the new...
View ArticleDelta records impressive turnout at LG polls
Voters in Delta on Saturday turned out in large number to vote during the local government elections across the state. Expressing enthusiasm about the turnout of voters, Mr Peter Onwusanya, the Speaker...
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