Six men in green uniform stand in the back of a pick-up truck in northern Nigeria’s biggest city, on the look-out for prostitutes, their clients, transvestites, drunks and drug addicts. Their patrols in Kano also scout for men and women deemed to be…
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Nigeria’s ruling party said on Wednesday that it was unfazed by the defection of powerful state governors to the main opposition, despite it tipping the balance of power in the run-up to elections in 2015. Seven governors first broke with President…
Police enforcing Islamic law in Nigeria’s city of Kano publicly destroyed some 240,000 bottles of beer on Wednesday, the latest move in a wider crackdown on behaviour deemed “immoral” in the area. The banned booze had been confiscated from trucks coming…
The Federal Government and major automobile importers in Nigeria have agreed to fashion out a collective action plan for the…
Former Oyo State Head of Service, Mrs Kudirat Adeleke and eleven other accused persons who are being prosecuted by the…
The Director-General of Oyo State Public Works Department, Engineer Taiwo Akintola has attributed the free flow of traffic in Ibadan and other parts of the State to the massive road rehabilitation, construction of bridges and the Urban Renewal Programme of the Governor Abiola Ajimobi’s administration. Akintola, while speaking on the NTA, Ibadan personality interview programme […]
The Oyo State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, has announced the portfolios of commissioners recently sworn in into the state executive council. According to a statement signed by the Special Assistant on Media to the governor, Mr. Wale Sadeeq, four of the commissioners who were reappointed into the cabinet, Messrs Adebayo Ojo, Muyiwa Gbadegesin, Zacheus Adedeji […]
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has reiterated the commitment of the state government to reducing maternal and child mortality…
As calls for the Sovereign National Conference dominate daily public discourse, Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has said that the Federal Government does not need a conference to perform its constitutional duties, saying that the sudden U-turn of the central government is diversionary. Delivering a lecture at the 4th Convocation lecture of the Joseph …
IMPERATIVES FOR A SOVEREIGN NATIONAL DIALOGUE presented by His Excellency Dr. Kayode FAYEMI Governor, Ekiti State, Nigeria at the 4th Convocation Ceremony of the Joseph Ayo Babalola University (JABU) Monday, November 25, 2013 Protocols I am delighted to be here today at this epochal event. I salute the founders and administrators of this great citadel …
Abia State Governor, Chief Theodore Orji, has inaugurated a five-man steering committee for the Abia -Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management…
Abia State Governor, Chief Theodore Orji (4th from left), winner of Gulder Ultimate Search 10th Edition, Dennis Okike (5th from…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi at the weekend said Nigerian leaders across all walks of life must begin to mentor young people and help them build a future that they will be proud of. Speaking at the Annual Awards night of the Nigerian Leadership Initiative (NLI) held in Lagos, the Governor stated that any …
Emmanuel Osita Okereke self-styled Director General of the National Task Force is to remain in Kuje prison till December 10,…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday, November 25, 2013 arraigned one Daniel Hylampa Ngadda alongside his company Adags…
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Monday, November 25, 2013 convicted Augustine Onwe for failing to declare Seven…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday November 21, 2013 arraigned Rev. Kim David Pam before Justice Yargate…
Twon-Brass, headquarters of Brass Local Government Area was agog with people from all walks of life as Governor Seriake Dickson…
The Minister of Agriculture, Akinwumi Adesina as well as the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Chief…
In order to address the dwindling manpower and spate on professionals in the water and its related sectors in Africa,…