Month: June 2014

Governor Theodore Orji monday named yet another set of transition committee chairmen to oversee the affairs of the 17 local governments, erasing heightened expectation that council poll would be held...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State has faulted the choice of the state Governor, Hon. Chibuike Amaechi to set up Caretaker Committees (CTCs) to replace out-going local government...

In spite of its many successful peace keeping efforts in other African countries, the Nigeria military, in recent weeks, has taken a severe bashing at home and abroad, writes Ojo...

A former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has finally dumped the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).   Fani-Kayode, who was until recently a...

A Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday fixed July 8 for the hearing of the suit filed by the Attorney General of the Federation, seeking to compel the Speaker of...

With less than three weeks to the governorship election in Ekiti State, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disclosed that about 70 per cent of eligible voters have collected...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday asked the federal government to lead the way on the issue accountability by accounting for the huge budgetary allocation it receives monthly from the...

The late Rev. Monsignor Pedro Martins is to be buried on June 10, after a requiem mass at the Holy Cross Cathedral, Lagos.   This was contained in a statement...

Few days after he was arrested by the Lagos State Police Command on alleged gun running charges, the Oyo State Police Command yesterday took Mukaila Lamidi (a.k.a Auxiliary) to court...

The University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) chapter of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) yesterday joined their counterparts in other federal government  owned hospitals in compliance with the...