In December last year, Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, announced the release of N2.6billion for the payment of backlog of arrears of gratuity to nearly 2000 of the state’s former workers. The payment captured those who retired from 2011 until August, 2015. The release of the funds elicited wide …

As the President Muhammadu Buhari administration proceeds with its social investment programmes, the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has disclosed that the government will not be importing food to implement it’s School feeding programme. Speaking Thursday while receiving a delegation of the World Food Programme in his office, led …

Sokoto government will establish a new medical school, an infectious diseases hospital and a state-of-the-art renal and cardiac centre, Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has revealed. Speaking at the opening of the 58th meeting of National Council on Health in Sokoto Thursday, Tambuwal said the new health centres will provide training …

BY ABDULLAHI ISAH, MAIDUGURI The Borno Elders Forum has expressed shock over the demise of Major General Yusha’u Mahmood Abubakar who was the first to serve as ‘Theater Commander,’ leading the war against Boko Haram insurgents, following the relocation of the Military’s Command and Control Center to Maiduguri by President …

From:Ruth. David , Bauchi One of the founding members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and a chieftain of the party, Bashir Bukar Rimin Zayam has solicited more support and unity among members of the party to enable the new National Chairman, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff to succeed in his …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday presented its eleventh witness in the on-going trial of a former Director General of the Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Mr. Patrick Akpobolokemi and five others. Akpobolokemi is standing trial, alongside five others, before Justice Ibrahim Buba of the …

AGENE GODWIN,Benin Nigerian international, Osaze Odemwingie has donated several food items and a cash gift to Iwinosa Orphange,Benin city as part of his contribution to the upliftment of the less privileged. He said the less privileged ones must be integrated into the larger society by showing them love and kindness. …

The recent ethnic/regional clashes between some Yoruba youths and some people of northern Nigeria extraction at Mile 12, Lagos, is the latest in a series of clashes between host communities (indigenes) and ‘settlers’ across the country. Lagos, given its population, and ethnic melting pot character, is understandably one of the …

A foundation, Segun Adeleye Foundation for Good Leadership in Africa (SAFFGLIA) to encourage governments across Africa to embrace good governance in order to uplift the standard of living of the people among others has been unveiled in Lagos. The event held at the Afe Babalola Hall of the University of …

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has uncovered and aborted “a highly sophisticated plot” by some criminally minded elements to defraud it. According to a statement by Mr. Isaac Okorafor, Acting Director, Corporate Communications, although preliminary investigations have so far not revealed any accomplices within the CBN, the management of …

Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udoma Udo Udoma, has said that infrastructure is very necessary to grow the economy of a nation and will also create an enabling environment for private sector to grow. The Minister stated this during his meeting with a delegation of the management of The …

Justice Okon E. Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, March 10, 2015 granted the former Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, Air Chief Marshal Alex S. Badeh (retd), bail in the sum of N2billion. Badeh, who is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, alongside …

The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has urged families to revisit ethical values as a way of supporting socio-political and economic growth and stability in the country. He said without a conscious effort at promoting values, real development would remain largely elusive. He urged parents to take …

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Dr. Warisenibo Dakuku Adolphus Peterside the Director General/CEO of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA). A statement by Hajia Lami Tumaka, Head, Public Relations of NIMASA, Dr. Peterside replaces Mr. Haruna Baba Jauro, who until Thursday March 10, 2016 superintended the Agency in …

The Kwara State government has directed state and local government workers and pensioners that are yet to provide their Bank Verification Number (BVN) for the ongoing staff verification exercise to do so within seven days or risk nonpayment. Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed, who gave the directive on Tuesday during a meeting …

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye will, from Saturday, May 14 to Sunday May 22, 2016, be visiting Turkey. The theme of the Pastoral visit is “In His Fullness” and the 1st Festival of Life in Turkey will be held during …

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has on behalf of the Government and people of the state, condoled President Muhammadu Buhari and the entire Federal Executive Council over the death of the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Chief James Ocholi, SAN, who died in a ghastly motor accident which …

President Muhammadu Buhari, Wednesday, presided over the Federal Executive Council, FEC, where, among others, members paid deserved tributes to their departed colleague, Barrister James Ocholi, SAN, who died with his wife and son in a car crash on Sunday. Here are some pictures from the meeting.

The chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Peace and Reconciliation Committee and Governor of Bayelsa State, Hon Henry Seriake Dickson Tuesday, March 8, held a crucial meeting with the party’s leadership cutting across the feuding factions of the party in Imo State at the Bayelsa State Governor’s Lodge, Asokoro …

Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki on Tuesday celebrated the International Women’s Day by holding a no-holds barred interactive session with female students of Model Secondary School, Maitama-Abuja and assured them that the 8th Senate would work to ensure that more women aspire to and occupy leadership positions in the …

The Lagos State Government has expressed its condolences over the death of construction site workers who lost their lives on Tuesday as a result of the collapse of a five-storey building under construction on Kushenla Road, Ikate Elegushi, Lekki. In a press release issued on Wednesday and signed by the …

Justice E. S. Chukwu of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has adjourned trial of Sani Lulu Abdullahi, a former President of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, and three other former NFF top officials to April 12, 2016, expressing concerns over what seems a deliberate attempt by their counsels to “frustrate” …

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Wednesday granted immediate approval for provision of land to the Nigerian Navy in the Ibeju Lekki area of the state to install surveillance equipment to monitor activities on the Nigerian territorial waters and a little beyond the exclusive economic zones of the country. …