FG Disburses N213.4bn To Public Tertiary Institutions Via TETfund
Universities, Colleges of Education and Polytechnics owned by the federal and state government of Nigeria were on Monday allocated the sum worth N213.4 billion as 2016 intervention budget through...
View ArticlePDP: Jonathan Meets Party’s Ministers’ Forum, Says I Did Not Endorse Sheriff
In continuation of discussions with the various stakeholders and organs of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday met with members of the party’s...
View ArticleHow We Are Battling Recession In Ile-Ife – Ooni Ogunwusi
The Ooni of Ife, His Imperial Majesty Ooni Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja II has said that the ancient city of Ile-Ife has devised cultural tourism revolution as veritable tool in battling recession reducing...
View ArticleTambuwal Releases Over 2bn For Payment Of Gratuity To Sokoto LG Workers
Sokoto State governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has released the sum of N1.2 billion for the payment of accumulated gratuity from the year 2010 for staff of local government councils of the state. In...
View ArticleFresh Southern Kaduna Killings: Death Toll Rises To 26, Gets Mass Burial
The deaths toll arising from the Sunday’s to Monday attacks on four communities in Kaura and Jema’a Local Government Areas of Kaduna State has risen to 26. LEADERSHIP findings also revealed that 10 of...
View ArticlePMB: IPC Frowns At Denial Of Access To Information To Guardian Journalists In...
The International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos, Nigeria has described as unwarranted and unhealthy for democracy, the denial of access to information and the call on the London Police to arrest a Guardian...
View ArticleCourt Remands Pastor For Strangulating Woman Friend To Death In Osun
For allegedly strangulating his woman-friend to death, an Osun State Magistrate’s Court sitting in Ile-Ife yesterday remanded forty-seven year old Pastor Joshua Ayobami in prison custody. The...
View ArticleGov Dickson Confirm Power Struggle In Umbrella Bodies Of INC, IYC
The Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson has on Tuesday confirmed the raging power struggle in the fold of the Ijaw umbrella body, the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) and the Ijaw National Congress...
View ArticleOyo Holds Prayers For PMB’s Safe Return, Peace
Nigerians irrespective of their religion and political affiliations across Oyo State on Tuesday offered special prayers for the safe return of President Muhammadu Buhari back to the country. The prayer...
View ArticleEkiti CJ Seeks More Security Around Courts
The Chief Judge of Ekiti State, Justice Ayodeji Daramola has stressed the need to beef up security in courts across the country to ward-off attack by insurgents and hoodlums. This came as the Police...
View ArticleMinister Fails To Present Budget Performance Due To Federal Secretariat Power...
The Minister of Women Affairs, Asisha Alhassan has blamed her inability to submit of breakdown of the ministry’s proposed budget defence to the House of Representatives on consistent power failure at...
View ArticleMy Husband Is President For Refusing To Give Up – Aisha Buhari
Wife of the president, Mrs Aisha Buhari on Tuesday counseled Nigerians on the virtues of perseverance in pursuing their dreams saying her husband eventually became president because he did not give up...
View ArticleWe Have No Interest In PDP Crises, Says APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said it is has no interest in the leadership crisis currently rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the more reason why it has chosen to ignore the “wild...
View ArticleN304.1m Fraud: Court Adjourns Trial Of Ex Acting NIMASA DG, Jauro, To March 3
A Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday adjourned proceedings in the trial-within-trial to test the voluntariness of statements obtained from a former acting Director General of Nigeria Maritime...
View ArticleAlleged N136m fraud: Court Dismisses Ex-NIMASA Acting DG’s No Case Submission
Justice Mojisola Olatoregun of the Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday dismissed a no case submission filed by an Executive Director of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency...
View ArticleRita Lori Heads To Court To Seek Redress On Alleged Corrupt Practices In...
The renowned female broadcaster and human right activists Chief Rita Lori-ogbebor yesterday said she is heading to the court to seek redress on behalf of Delta people over alarming cases of corruption...
View ArticleNATA Calls Ambode To Intervene Over Demolition of Mechanic Villages
The Nigeria Automobile Technicians’ Association (NATA) in conjunction with Informal Workers’ Organisations of Nigeria (FIWON) have called on Governor Akinwunmi Ambode to as a matter of urgency...
View ArticleReps Member Calls for Measures To Compel Speaking of Yoruba Langauge
As the International Mother Language Day was celebrated on February 21, 2017, a member of House of Representatives representing Ifako/Ijaiye Federal constituency, Hon. Akinwunmi Nurudeen Olaitan has...
View ArticleMinister Fails To Present Budget Performance Due To Federal Secretariat Power...
The Minister of Women Affairs, Asisha Alhassan has blamed her inability to submit of breakdown of the ministry’s proposed budget defence to the House of Representatives on consistent power failure at...
View ArticleReps Query N45bn Budgetary Allocation to Presidential Committee on North East
The House of Representatives committee Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), yesterday queried the proposed N45 billion budgetary allocation to the Presidential Committee on the North East Initiative....
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