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The House of Representatives has raised a 10-member ad hoc committee chaired by Unyime Idem to interface with Multichoice Digital Satellite Television (DSTV) and other service providers to introduce the Pay-as-You-Go (PAYG) tariff plan. The decision followed the adoption of ...

National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has resumed duties at the party’s national secretariat in deference to a Court of Appeal, Abuja ruling. Amid tight security, the ex-labour leader was received by no fewer than 17 state chairmen ...

The Senate has directed its Committees on Petroleum Downstream, Gas Resources and Petroleum Upstream to investigate the immediate and remote causes of the Lagos pipeline explosion to avoid reoccurrence. They are to turn in their report in two weeks. The ...

Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel has asked the Federal Government to review the state of facilities at all correctional centres in the country and reform them to become more decent for human habitation. He made the call at the ...

The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) and a coalition of Niger Delta activists have canvassed the appointment of person without proper knowledge of the region to head the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP). They lamented that the appointment of persons from the ...

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has charged Akwa Ibom people to always show greater interest and commitment in initiation, monitoring and execution of projects in their communities. State Director of ICPC, Shola Shodipo, gave the ...

Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri has visited President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, where he sought Federal Government’s partnership towards ensuring adequate security in the state. Diri, who initially declined to speak to newsmen after the visit he ...

The Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) and other civil society groups (CSOs) have demanded a ban on genetically modified organisms (GMO) foods in the country and repeal of the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) Act. The groups, which comprised farmers, ...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has declared that the Federal Government’s vision of taking 10 million Nigerians out of poverty every year for the next 10 years is on course and actualise owing to the “quantum leap in human capacity development ...

The Coalition of United Political Party (CUPP), through one of its members, Action Peoples Party (APP) has sued the Federal Government and four others at the Federal High Court, Abuja over the $22.7 billion loan request granted President Muhammadu Buhari ...