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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has restated the need for adequate training and provision of special funding to support Nigerian engineers if the nation desires to make progress. He argued that since it was right to say that ‘without engineers, there ...

A coalition of Niger Delta agitators has described the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal judgement that upheld the election of President Muhammadu Buhari as rape and mockery of the country’s democracy. They wondered why the tribunal ruled that educational qualifications were ...

Stakeholders in the nation’s education sector have lampooned the Federal Government over what they described as ‘endless’ negotiations and reluctance to pay the N30, 000 new minimum wage it earlier approved. They insisted that setting up one panel after the ...

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has asked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate in the last general elections, Atiku Abubakar, to apologise to Nigerians instead of appealing Wednesday’s ruling of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal. ...

Ahead of the November 16, 2019, gubernatorial election in Bayelsa and Kogi states, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has commenced a two-day training for security agencies and election monitors in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. The training organised by The Electoral ...

Troops of Operation Lafiya Dole, under the special response, Halaka Dodo Operations, have neutralised three terrorists in Kirawa border community of Borno State. Kirawa borders Cameroon, 135 kilometres east of Maiduguri, the state capital. The terrorists have been hibernating in ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned and rejected Federal Government’s decision to increase Value Added Tax (VAT) from 5 per cent to 7.2 per cent, insisting that Nigerians could not bear the burden under the prevailing economic situation. This ...

Justice Kolawole Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt, Rivers State has declared that only a competent court that can direct the National Assembly to take over the functions of a state legislature. He also held that the National ...

The Northern States Governors Forum has adopted the National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP) is a system that would engender modernisation of pastoral activities. Rising from an emergency meeting in Kaduna, it clarified that the scheme was different from the Rural ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians that his administration would not compound their hardship, but instead create an enabling environment for everyone to thrive. He gave the assurance when he received the new executives of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) ...