Category: Nigeria News

Minister of State for Finance, Alhaji Yerima Ngama, said yesterday that the federal government had okayed a five-year special intervention package to quicken the socio-economic development of states in the...

Determined to ensure that no internal rancour splits its ranks, the reconciliation committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) headed by the former chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji...

One month after the demise of Deji of Akure, late Oba Adebiyi Adesida, his first daughter, Princess Adetutu Adesida-Dike, has been installed as the Regent of the town till the...

The Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee (LPPC) has released new guidelines for the conferment of the rank of Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) on deserving lawyers.   A copy of the...

President Goodluck Jonathan Sunday called on Nigerians to ensure that they collectively work hard and break ethnic and religious barriers for a better tomorrow.   The president, speaking at a...

Ebonyi State Governor,  Chief Martin Elechi, has denied the statement credited to him where he allegedly dismissed the forthcoming national conference, describing it as “a big joke, waste of time,...

The Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Chairman, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Hon. Kingsley Kuku, has advised the beneficiaries of the amnesty programme to continue to ensure...

Ahead of the January 2015 deadline for the switchover from analogue to digital broadcasting, the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has identified the urgent need to enact a new broadcast Act....

Members of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) have declared that the six-month nationwide strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) would turn around the...

The Edo State Police Command Sunday burst a notorious ring of kidnappers in Benin City, killing two suspects during an exchange of gunfire between members of the gang and the...