The Nigerian Government has approved an upward review of the monthly stipend of interns of the Graduate Internship Scheme (GIS)…
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The Ogun State Government today made good its promise of paying compensations to farmers whose crops had to give…
As the Ogun State government continues with the process of verifying claims made by applicants of the homeowners’ charter…
The general public is hereby informed that the Special Team on Petroleum Subsidy (STPS) which was set up as an…
The Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, on March 12, 2014, arraigned one Zahradeen Dambazzau Mohammed before Justice Olasumbo Olanrewaju…
A 29 year-old warder with the old Abeokuta Prisons, Ibara, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Joseph Emmanuel is presently in the custody…
A prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of seven persons accused of complicity in the billion naira Police Pension fraud,…
NEW YORK, March 13, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — On 11 March 2014, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions…
Wives of Local Government transition committee Chairmen in Delta State have been urged to support policies and programmes that will…
The Governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan, will be the special guest of honour at a Business Roundtable…
Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State has called on the Federal Government to rename the second Niger Bridge to be…
A valid voters register with each voter having a voters card is a must to ensure that elections are free…
Introduction:- A Nigerian has the right to live in any part of the country. An important part of voter registration…
The European Parliament backed sanctions on Uganda and Nigeria Thursday in protest at their recent passing of anti-gay laws. MEPs approved a non-binding resolution by a large majority which said that the two countries violated the Cotonou accord on…
Nigeria is Africa’s largest oil exporter, but imported fuel for cars has been scarce across the country for weeks. Drivers are frustrated at having to wait in long lines at gas stations to pay skyrocketing prices, while the government blames shady fuel…
Gunmen on motorbikes in northwest Nigeria’s Katsina state killed at least 69 people and torched several homes in attacks on four villages, a local lawmaker told AFP Thursday, amid rising communal tension in the region. The state’s police chief, Hurdi…
Gunmen in northwest Nigeria’s Katsina state killed 69 people in attacks on four villages, a local lawmaker told AFP Thursday, amid rising communal tension in the region. “So far, 69 bodies have been recovered from the attacks carried out by a large…
Nigeria on Thursday protested the “merciless beating” of one its nationals by South African police and demanded that the perpetrators be punished. Amateur video footage of two armed uniformed policemen and private guards punching and kicking a man on…
Nigeria, under fire internationally for banning gay marriage and alleged abuses while tackling Islamist insurgents, on Wednesday received its first visit from the United Nations human rights commissioner. But Navi Pillay said she had not come to Africa…
Nigeria on Wednesday re-imposed a telephone blackout on many parts of Nigeria’s northeast Borno state, the base of Boko Haram Islamists who have intensified attacks that has claimed scores of lives, the army said. “GSM (Global System for Mobile Communication…