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After more than five months of fighting dirty, the Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Wednesday...

APC: Jonathan using Ecological Fund to dispense favour to cronies

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused President Goodluck Jonathan of using the Ecological Fund, set up to address the...

Tambuwal to EFCC: Prosecute oil thieves now

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal, has urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC) to...

Akwa Ibom to spend N469b in 2014

Akwa Ibom Government has proposed a total budgetary outlay of N469.374 billion for the 2014 financial year. This amount is...

FAAN returns passenger’s missing luggage, $8,500 dollars

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) said on Wednesday that it had returned $8,500 (about N1.4 million) misplaced by...

Businessman sues Aero Contractors, claims N13.7m damages for negligence

Justice Okon Abang of a Federal High Court in Lagos, on Wednesday heard a suit filed by a businessman, Mr Amaechi...

Aviation sector in shambles when I assumed office – Oduah

The Minister of Aviation, Ms Stella Oduah, said on Tuesday that the aviation sector was in a state of decay...

APC hails Tambuwal’s patriotic stand against corruption

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has commended the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, for his patriotism...

We’re not against the president – Gov. Ahmed

Kwara State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed has said that the movement of five Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors from the...

Senate passes revised 2020 Budget of N10.8trn

Senate pays tributes to Mandela

The Senate in Abuja on Tuesday paid tribute to the late former South African President, Nelson Mandela, for a lifetime...

Aviation

Passenger awakes to find himself locked in plane

A passenger who fell asleep while flying to Los Angeles, the United States (U.S.) said he awoke to discover himself...

Dickson reads riot act to oil thieves

Hard times await oil thieves and vandals of petroleum products pipelines in Bayelsa State as Governor Seriake Dickson on Monday...

We are no longer in PDP, says Gov. Wamakko

Gov. Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto State on Monday said that the five governors who defected to the APC had resolved...

N1.8b subsidy fraud: EFCC re-arraigns Tukur, Alao, others

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday re-arraigned two oil marketers, Mahmud Tukur and Abdullahi Alao, over an...

ASUU Strike: Lecturers defy FG directive to resume classes

Lecturers in Modibbo Adama University of Technology (MAUTECH), Yola, have resolved to continue with the ongoing nationwide strike by the...

Economy: Dangote lauds backward integration policy, canvasses introduction in other sectors

President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has advocated the introduction of backward integration policy in other critical sectors of the...

Jonathan to attend memorial service for Mandela in South Africa

President Goodluck Jonathan will leave Abuja tomorrow evening to join other world leaders in South Africa at events leading up...

Lar to be buried amid tight security

The Plateau Government said the North-Central state would be placed under tight security while the funeral of late elder statesman,...

South Africans hold Day of Prayer for Mandela

A mass in memory of Nelson Mandela takes place at the Regina Mundi church, which became one of the focal...

FG approves N1bn for upgrade of insurgents’ detention camps