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Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has been indicted over the execution of the $24.114 million contract for the repairs of an oil storage vessel , MT Tuma, a 136,000 metric tonnes vessel acquired by the Federal Government in 1985.
People of Ijebu North in Ogun State, has kicked against the state government's refusal to re-instate Chairman of the Council, Mr. Telle Ogunjobi, who was removed from office 11 months ago, by Governor Gbenga Daniel .
The crisis within the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) has deepened with the suspension from the party of Dr. Mahmud Mohammed Abubakar, who is the Minority Leader in the Kaduna State House of Assembly.
Former Nigeria's deputy permanent representative at the United Nations, Dr. Oladapo Fafowora, yesterday reiterated the necessity for electoral reforms as the panacea for the lingering electoral problems in the country and emphasised the need to strip the Presidency of the power to appoint the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Abia State House of Assembly has joined the fray in the face-off between Imo State legislature and former governor of Abia State, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu, saying Imo lawmakers had acted in bad faith and abused its powers by issuing a warrant of arrest on Kalu.
Delta State Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the United Nations Deve-lopment Programme (UNDP) to promote capacity building and fast-track socio economic development in the state.
The policeman who was alleged to have killed two children in retaliation of the death of his daughter at Oni Memorial Children Hospital, Ibadan, Oyo State, has been dismissed from the force, the Oyo State Police Commissioner, Adisa Bolanta, has said.
The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture has unveiled a strategy to boost agricultural research in Africa with plans to establish a Global Research Park in Nigeria.
Work has commenced on the multibillion naira Yenagoa-Brass road project which was awarded two weeks ago by the Federal Government in line with its promise to open up the hinterland of Bayelsa State in the wake of the presiden-tial amnesty granted Niger Delta militants.
THE National chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Vincent Ogbulafor has urged Nigerians to in the spirit of Sallah, join hands with President Umaru Yar'Adua in his move to drive the country to greatness.
Former Governor of Kano State Alhaji Abubakar Rimi says the anti- corruption hype in Nigeria should be considered a joke if former President Olusegun Obasanjo is not probed. Rimi said this on Wednesday in Jos at the 2009 law week and memorial lecture in honour of late Justice Dauda Zaki.
The National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) Wednesday said prices of petroleum products would increase even if more refineries were established.
As Nigerians join millions of adherents of the Islamic faith to celebrate this year's Eid-El-Kabir festival, Lagos State Governor Mr Babatunde Fashola says Nigerians can overcome its current travails through faith, love and sacrifice. In his Sallah message to the people, Governor Fashola said, "With the spirit of faith, love and sacrifice symbolized by the Eid-El-Kabir celebration, we can overcome ...
The State House in Abuja declared yesterday that President Umaru Yar'adua, who departed the country in a hurry last Monday to seek medical treatment in Saudi Arabia, is suffering from acute pericarditis, an inflammation of the fibrous sac surrounding the heart, otherwise known as pericardium. It was the first time in two and a half years of his presidency that the State House revealed Yar'adua's ...
Senate President David Mark has urged Nigerians to imbibe the spirit of sacrifice, love, tolerance and mutual co-existence.In a goodwill message to Muslims to mark this year's Eid-Kabir, Senator Mark stressed the need for Nigerians to be their brother's keeper adding that the festive season calls for forgiveness and love for one another.
Former President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida has commended the amnesty programme of President Yar'adua and advocated improved well-being of oil producing areas and their people. He made the call yesterday in Abuja at the lunch of a book, Participation in Petroleum Development: Towards Sustainable Community Development in the Niger Delta, authored by Aseme-Alabo Edward T.Bristol Alagbariya.
KILIMANJARO Stars flew out to Nairobi, Kenya, yesterday morning and coach Marcio Maximo, said he is looking forward for the team's opening match against Uganda on Sunday.
All those jostling for the seat of incumbent Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State have been advised to look elsewhere as Obi has no rival in next year's election in the state.
Nigeria is indeed a wonderful country - a country where lawlessness overwhelms the rule of law. It is a country where truth is a luxury and whoever tries to speak the truth is either labeled uncivilized or a fool.
After the Lagos State House of Assembly postponed the date of its original presentation, Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) finally presented an appropriation bill of N429.596 billion recently. Designed principally to complete the existing projects, the 2010 budget thus raises some questions beyond the appreciation of value and purpose that it is meant to serve.
In Akwa Ibom, a new political scenario is being played out. Unlike many other states of the federation where the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is the dominant political platform, the crisis torn Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) in the state, is gradually raising its shoulder with the intention to meaningfully participate at the 2011 general election.
Despite the opposition's legal moves to stop the proposed local government election in Enugu State, Governor Sullivan Chime has continued to call the bluff of the opposition, insisting that the election will hold as scheduled.
Former Chairman of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), late Chief Sunday Bolorunduro Awoniyi, who died on November 28, 2007, was described as an incredibly principled man whose genre of clean politics was alien to this clime. Sufuyan Ojeifo writes that tomorrow, Okun people and political associates will gather in Mopa to commemorate the second memorial anniversary of the late elder statesman
Students' Union Government (SUG), University of Ado-Ekiti (UNAD), has described the 400 per cent hike in tuition fees by Governing Council of the institution as an attempt to commercialise education and make it exclusive preserve of those it described as treasury looters, at the expense of children of millions of less-privileged Nigerians.
The Federal Government yesterday foreclosed the possibility of integrating traditional and herbal medicines into the nation's health system, insisting that though its efficacy had received global acclaim, the secrecy by practitioners and the absence of a well coordinated approach to their activities had remained a drawback to its recognition by government.
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