Month: July 2013

Nigeria’s electoral wards and constituencies are now too old, Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Atahiru Jega, has said.   Jega, on a  visit to the National Space Research and...

Chairman of the Senate Committee on Interior, Senator Bagudu Atiku, has said the Nigerian Immigrations Service has lost 400 officers to terror attacks in the country.   He also said...

The Northern Youth Congress, a socio-political organisation comprising youths in the North, on Monday threatened to embark on street protests if the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, failed to sack...

Director-General of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Dr. Asishana Okauru, has said the NGF has only one secretariat.   Perhaps dismissing the recent claim by Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State...

The National Assembly on Monday prescribed a minimum of 10 years imprisonment for persons convicted of human trafficking in addition to payment of fines.   This position was canvassed in...

No fewer than 24 persons lost their lives on Monday in Edo and Oyo states following road crashes.   The Edo accident, which occurred at Okada, killed 18 persons, while...

A 22-year-old murder suspect, Ikechukwu Nwakoro, has been jailed for two years by the Ebute Meta Magistrate’s Court for stealing the brain box of a Toyota Coaster bus belonging to...