Month: July 2014

The Senate yesterday confirmed the appointments of the former Governor of Kano State,  Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau and three other ministerial nominees and charged them to make the best use of...

Two weeks after the death of her billionaire husband, the senior wife of the late businessman and Deputy-President of Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Alhaji Abdul-Azeez Arisekola-Alao, has...

 A civil society organisation, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged the federal government to court over the withdrawal of N446.3 billion corruption charges against Muhammed Abacha, son...

 President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday signed the Pension Reform Bill, 2014 into law. With the signing the bill into law, the Pension Reform Act, No 2, 2004 has been repealed. The...

 Nobody can deny that Nigeria’s Civil Service is a key player in the horrendously endemic corruption crippling this nation from attaining its oft-mentioned potentialities of growth and progress. Analysts agree...

 Two years after the state’s road traffic law was enacted, the Lagos State Government yesterday began an outright enforcement of  section 24 (c) of the law, which outlawed the indiscriminate...

 Confusion and apprehension yesterday beclouded  Ile-ife, the cradle of the Yorubas in Osun State as a result of  bomb scare that rocked the ancient town at the early hours of...

 The House of Representatives has been described as a transparent institution from where anybody could access any information of public interest. The Speaker, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, stated this at the...