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CCECC, the Chinese construction firm handling the provision of roads in Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital, and its sub-contractors, are yet to return to site, more than two weeks after the end of October which the government promised as deadline for work to pick up.
A pressure group known as Unity Forum has called on the National Assembly to make laws that will prescribe the severest penalties for perpetrators of kidnappings and ritual killings in Nigeria.
Hassan Saleh is the out- going Director of the Custom, Immigration and Prison Pension Office (CIPO). In this interview, he said that government released a supplementary budget of N8.7 billion to pay the pensioners. He also said that since he assumes office January 17, 2008, pensioners now get paid on or before 25th of every month.
The mandate of the National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP) is to coordinate and monitor how the various sectors are contributing to poverty eradication in the country, its National Coordinator has said.
A large number of people, mostly woman, Saturday attended a skills acquisition workshop organized by Hands and Skills Initiative at Redeem Christian Church of God at Nyanya, Abuja.
The Ogun Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Saturday said its operatives intercepted a tanker carrying weeds suspected to be cannabis.
The Abuja Muslim Forum (AMF) Friday began a three-day economic empowerment workshop for Muslims at Kado Estate Jumu'at Mosque in Abuja.
The police recently arraigned three persons before an Abuja magistrate court for allegedly withdrawing N4.8 million from the bank account of one Dr. Bello Ghali.
The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) operated Joint Venture said it produced a total of 512 million standard cubic feet of gas (MMscf/d) in western Niger Delta last week.
True to expectation, the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) fulfilled the public expectation of its advertised promise to consider options for more internally generated revenues (IGRS) at a work shop last week in Abuja.
A 17-year-old Nigerian girl and three other pilgrims died of swine flu soon after arriving in Saudi Arabia, Saudi health officials said yesterday while announcing the first deaths from swine flu in this year's hajj.
The European Commission has signed a multi-million euro agreement to assist Nigeria tackle development challenges in the areas of governance, trade and peace.
Following my recent but honest assessment of governance more especially at local and state levels where I stated that qualified and experienced people should be elected into state assemblies to enhance grassroots development by checking the excesses of governors who are acting like emperors, I have been humbled by the avalanche of responses, some complementary and some very critical, from several ...
Senate President David Mark has charged security operatives to put necessary measures to dismantle the cartels in the oil, energy and transportation sectors which are holding the nation to ransom in order to ease the pains of Nigerians.
Apart from names, there are many other features of personal characteristics that people share in common. Like the rest of us, leaders too may share a lot in common in terms of personal characteristics or style.
Politicians generally have a credibility problem arising from the inclination to make pledges and promises, sometimes fully aware that they cannot, or are unwilling to honour such promises.
The FCT Joint Campus Committee of the National Association of Nigeria Students has criticized the recent closure of secondary schools in the Federal Capital Territory for seven days in order to accommodate participants for the 2009 Abuja Carnival in the schools' hostels.
The Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has issued Independent Power Plant (IPP) generation licenses to Dangote Industry Power Limited (DIL), Wedotebary Nigeria Limited and Coronation power and Gas Limited.
Dangote Group of Companies has supported the on-going Abuja Carnival with N20 million as part of its social responsibility in promoting Nigeria's tourism potentials, the company's General Manager Alhaji Isa Tata Yusuf said yesterday.
Cross River State and Oceanic Bank Plc are partnering to develop the state, a statement from the bank said.The statement said Governor Liyel Imokhe made the promise at the weekend in Calabar when he received the Managing Director of the bank, Mr. John Aboh in his office.
A 32-year-old man, Terso Tuhuba, has appeared before an Abuja Upper Area court for allegedly impersonating an Army officer.Terso, of no fixed address, was arrested by Police Corporal Baba Danladi and another officer attached to Nyanya Police Station, while on patrol along Nyanya Tipper Garage.
Janet's (not real name) disdain for the sachet water, popularly known as 'pure water', possibly began right from her undergraduate days at the Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma.
National Productivity Centre (NPC) yesterday commenced training of workers in the hospitality business in order to promote productivity and quality of service in the industry.
The National Assembly fiasco that led to the postponement of the budget presentation by President Umaru Yar'adua last week has been described as a clear indication of a total collapse of the Yar'adua PDP government.
The Newspaper Proprietors' Association of Nigeria (NPAN) has rejected the current attempt by the National Assembly to enact a modified version of the obnoxious press council bill, describing the move as an attempt to take the nation back to the dark ages.
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