Pope Benedict XVI has named Nigerian Monsignor Fortunatus Nwachukwu as the Head of Protocol at the Vatican Secretariat of State. The Vatican Press Office announced the appointment which became effective immediately....
The face-off between the Oyo State Government and the state workforce over ‘ideal minimum’ wage, last night took a fresh dimension as the workers insisted that the state government has no power to sack the...
The much-awaited summit on the Niger Delta crisis is being delayed to allow for wider consultations with particular ethnic nationalities of the region, Vice President Goodluck Jonathan has said. And if all goes well,...
The whereabouts of a leader and spokesperson of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Jomo Gbomo, remains object of speculation and discussion over the weekend, amidst reports that he had been...
The fracas in the House of Representatives in Abuja, on Thursday, September 20, at the sitting of the panel that was set up to investigate the N628 million House renovation scandal involving the Speaker, Mrs Patricia...
Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State, in what appeared as a "a thank you visit" at the weekend, recounted his months of incarceration while in prison custody, and concluded that the experiences he gathered...
Less than four months after leaving office, ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s hope for a favourable mention by history is fast evaporating, as many of his former friends turn up their noses at his legacy. Right...
The presumed head of the Niger Delta militant body, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, who goes under the name of Jomo Gbomo, has been arrested in Angola, sources said yesterday. Security sources who...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has said it does not have immediate plans to arrest the former governor of Rivers State, Dr. Peter Odili, for alleged corrupt enrichment and money laundering. A source in...
Despite its public pronouncement sacking its entire workforce, the Oyo State government has started sending emissaries to the leaders of the striking members of the state public service to accept the government’s...
The Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, yesterday admitted as evidence the state government's gazette indicting Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala for corruption during his 11-month...
The public investigation by the committee probing the award of N628 million contract for the renovation of the official residences of Speaker Patricia Etteh and her deputy, Hon. Babangida Saidu Nguroje, was yesterday...