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Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has said that the merger of the new Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) with the All…

The Bayelsa State caucus of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has applauded President Goodluck Jonathan for the remarkable progress his…

Newly appointed Special Advisers in Bayelsa State have been urged to work assiduously in fine-tuning the economic policies and programmes…

Bayelsa State Government has approved an intervention fund of N3bn for the completion of the Ogbia/Nembe road which is expected…

Abia State Governor, Chief Theodore Orji, has charged 21 officers of Abia origin who recently graduated from the Nigerian Navy…

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Nigeria’s government on Thursday stepped in to stop a long-running strike by university lecturers, ordering an immediate end to the dispute and vowing to sack teachers who refused to cooperate. Education minister Ezenwo Nyesom Wike said he was dismayed…

Three Lebanese nationals suspected of being Hezbollah members were cleared of terrorism charges in Nigeria on Friday but one of the accused was convicted of a weapons offence and jailed for life. Mustapha Fawaz, Abdallah Thahini and Talal Ahmad Roda…

The Nigerian Government has directed the Vice Chancellors of federal universities under siege by the current strike action of the…

Nigeria’s Vice President, Mohammed Namadi Sambo has called for increased synergy between the Nigerian and Brazilian business community to engender…

Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson has ordered immediate release of Pa Nelson Tempurah, father of the State Commissioner for…

250 youths from Bayelsa State are to undergo vocational training in automobile technology, cinematography, photography, fashion designing and ICT at…

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan is feeling much better today after becoming ill in London on Thursday. He was in Britain for an investors conference. VOA’s Heather Murdock joins VOA’s Vincent Makori via Skype from Lagos to discuss his health and…

Abia State Governor, Chief Theodore Orji, has inaugurated the principal officers of the 7th session of the Abia State Council of…

Abia State Governor, Chief Theodore Orji, was among the governors of the South-East/South-South who unanimously agreed to organise a summit…

A new and more aggressive strain of HIV discovered in West Africa causes significantly faster progression to AIDS, researchers at Sweden’s Lund University said Thursday. The new strain of the virus that causes AIDS, called A3/02, is a fusion of the…

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 27 (Bernama) — Malaysia and Nigeria today agreed to set up a committee in a bid to…

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 27 (Bernama) — The Export-Import Bank of Malaysia (Exim Bank) is looking to facilitate Malaysian contractors who…

Intending Christian Pilgrims from Ogun State to this year’s holy pilgrimage to Israel have been charged to shun acts capable…

The N210.21b 2014 budget proposal presented by Governor Ibikunle Amosun to members of the Ogun State House of Assembly last…