Nigeria: Okorocha relocates to Anambra for APC
The Senator Chris Ngige Campaign Organization was inaugurated in Awka yesterday with the leader of the campaign committee and Governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, saying he would soon...
Pensioners’ Woes: The need for labour movement’s concerted response
“Since we were retired, no kobo was paid to me. Every time, we would be called to come to Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, to fill one form after another. Sometimes, we...
Police disperse gathering of newly recruited teachers in Rivers
PORT HARCOURT — A gathering of 13,000 newly recruited teachers, convened by their employer, the Rivers State Government, for collection of letters of posting was, yesterday, dispersed by the Police...
N97m re-grassing cost of Abuja stadium pitch doubtful – Gaiya
The House of Representatives Committee on Sports on Wednesday expressed dissatisfaction with the renovated Abuja stadium pitch. Rep. Godfrey Gaiya, who led his committee members on oversight function to the...
ALSCON missing tank traced to Ibom power plant
ABUJA—Accusations of asset stripping at the Aluminium Smelter Company of Nigeria re-echoed, yesterday, following the discovery of a 50,000-litre oil tank belonging to the company in nearby Ibom Power Company,...
Agbakoba writes Senate President on National Conference
FORMER President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Mr. Olisa Agbakoba has written to the Senate President, Senator David Mark on the importance of convening a Sovereign National Conference, SNC....
ASUU/FG face-off: Private varsities’ VCs call for truce
WORRIED by the protracted industrial action embarked upon by public university lecturers under the aegis of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Vice-Chancellors of private universities have expressed concern and...
Warri: 26-yr-old to hang for robbery, rape
WARRI— FOR robbing a couple at gunpoint and raping their teenage daughter, a Delta High Court sitting in Warri, yesterday, sentenced a 26-year-old furniture maker, Chijioke Ede, to death by hanging....
Continued Secrecy On Jumbo Pay of Nigeria legislators
FOR the umpteenth time, the nation was again, told that Nigeria holds the dismal record of having the highest paid legislators globally. Had this report not emanated from The Economist...
Nnewi Shrine: Tension Mounts Over Stadium Site, 11 Arrested
No fewer than eleven(11) middle-aged men have been arrested by policemen, while about two hundred machetes/cutlasses and assorted charms allegedly brought by some sections of the Nnewi community in Anambra...