By Obinna Odenigbo Federal Government has declared Tuesday, December 25, and Wednesday, December 26, as public holidays to commemorate the Christmas and Boxing Day celebrations. This was contained in a statement by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Interior, Mrs Anasthesia ...Read More

By Obinna Odenigbo Central Bank of Nigeria  Governor Mallam Sanusi Lamido on Tuesday lamented the high cost of servicing the nation’s  civil service and called on the Federal Government to fire at least 50 per cent of its entire workforce. Sanusi, in ...Read More

By Obinna Odenigbo Thousands of Muslims, yesterday, thronged the Nnamdi Azikwe Eastern by-pass of Kaduna town in a peaceful demonstration against a movie  said to have blasphemed Islam. The protesters who dragged the flags of the United States and that of Israel, ...Read More

By Adeshola Fashola   Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) are bitter about the Federal Government’s refusal to fulfil the agreement made between both parties in 2009. After disregarding the two month warning period; University teachers announced yesterday, “A total, ...Read More

By Fuad Yusuf Spokesman for the NDLF, Capt Mark Anthony,  in a statement made available to Sunday Vanguard, said unlike  Boko Haram that went bombing and killing innocent citizens, agitation was for local control of oil revenue arising from decades of ...Read More

By Obinna Odenigbo The much heralded electricity tariff regime with potentially grave cost implications for urban dwellers, the rich and commercial concerns commences today. The new tariff regime reduces the cost of electricity for rural consumers who do not use electronics or ...Read More

By Obinna Odenigbo With UNILAG students- or MAU students as it is, protesting the name-change of their institution and even claiming that the Late MKO Abiola has been honoured enough, Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola disagreed with them. The governor yesterday urged ...Read More

By Obinna Odenigbo Below is an abridged text of the nationwide broadcast by President Goodluck Jonathan to mark Democracy Day 2012 . NATIONAL ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN, GCFR, ON DEMOCRACY DAY,  MAY 29, 2012   Fellow Nigerians, 1.  One year ago, I was ...Read More

Besides issues bothering on Salami’s reinstatement, the AGF, equally revealed, yesterday, that a “White Paper”, chronicling all the factors behind the Boko Haram insurgency in Northern parts of the country had been gazetted by the Federal Government. The AGF noted that ...Read More

The 19 northern governors on Thursday rose in defence of the Presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari’s party on Wednesday had described the Jonathan administration as the “most corrupt ever,” in response to the Presidency ...Read More

The Ebonyi State Police Command on Thursday confirmed the arrest of two persons suspected to be members of Boko Haram at the Ochoudo motor park in Abakaliki. The Public Relations Officer of the command, Mr. John Eluu, told the News Agency ...Read More

As part of measures to ensure adequate immunization coverage in Nigeria, the Federal Government is set to commit another N4.7 billion in a new polio eradication emergency plan. Minister of Health, Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu, made this commitment during the ministerial ...Read More

A 20-year-old Togolese, John Folly, was charged before a Yaba Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Monday for allegedly snatching a vehicle at gunpoint from one Izobo Agbebaku, a Federal Government official. Folly is standing trial on a two-count charge of conspiracy ...Read More

President Goodluck Jonathan has begged the media to stop portraying the Federal Government as weak and ineffective in tackling the challenges of terrorism posed by the Boko Haram sect. President Jonathan who spoke at the Nigerian Tribune’s Men of the Year ...Read More

By Obinna Odenigbo A staggering 38 retired Police officers have died while awaiting their pension while over 28 names of the retired officers are now missing on the list of the retirees, Chief Effiong Orok, chairman, Association of Retired Police Officers ...Read More

The Nigerian Government has identified 1,497 irregular routes being used by illegal immigrants to gain entry into the country. Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro, said this at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Wednesday. Moro said the development had made it difficult ...Read More

Scarcity of petroleum products looms across the country as the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers threatens to embark on a nationwide strike with effect from Wednesday when a 72-hour deadline issued to the Federal Government expires. The General ...Read More

The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN,Sunday, condemned the latest suicide bombing of a Catholic Church in Jos, saying the act is barbaric and out rightly condemnable in all ramifications. In a reaction on behalf of the National President of CAN, Pastor ...Read More

Many Nigerians aboard Arik Air and South Africa Airways flights were refused entry to South Africa on Friday. The passengers were denied entry by the South Africa Port Health authority and the immigration service on the ground that they had invalid ...Read More

President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday vowed that the Federal Government would eradicate polio in the country before 2015. Jonathan spoke during the inauguration of the Presidential Taskforce on Eradication of Polio at the State House, Abuja. He said, “My commitment to the ...Read More

The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) on Wednesday said it would embark on an indefinite strike over the non- implementation of its 2009 agreement with the Federal Government. Mr  Alfred  Jimoh, the National Vice President, West Zone, told news ...Read More

Senate has ordered the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC to stop issuing new vehicle number plates and driver’s license. The order was upon the adoption of a motion on new number and driver’s sponsored by Senator Dahiru Kuta and 19 others ...Read More

Former Vice-President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has urged members of the Boko Haram to embrace the opportunity offered for dialogue with the Federal Government in the interest of unity, stability and economic development of the country. Abubakar made the call against the ...Read More

By Victoria Ojeme No fewer than 40 persons have died from Lassa fever in the last six weeks, the Federal Government said yesterday. The government also said all 397 cases reported so far across the country would be treated at no cost ...Read More

By Obinna Odenigbo Cruise Nigeria can confirm from reports reaching us that the Federal Government has declared Monday, February 6, 2012 as a public holiday. The requests by Nigerian muslims to grant the Id-el-Maoulud a holiday status was accepted by the Nigerian ...Read More

By Adeshola Fashola Yesterday, the Federal Government rolled out conditions for volatile states to receive National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, members, insisting that governors of such states must sign an undertaking to take responsibility for any thing that happened to corps ...Read More

Minister of Youth Development Bolaji Abdullahi has said that no fewer than 1,000 Nigerian youths are serving jail terms in China for various drug offences. Abdullahi, who disclosed this to newsmen in Ilorin, Kwara State capital, yesterday said he had written ...Read More

The Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufa’i,  is confident that the dispute between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities will end next week. Rufa’i said this during a meeting with Vice-Chancellors of Federal Universities in Abuja on ...Read More

By Obinna Odenigbo The instruction of the president of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Chairman of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) that all workers should quit street protests and resume work today is being met with stiff opposition by ...Read More

By Obinna Odenigbo The president of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Abdulwahed Omar has just called off – not just the protests- but the strikes in a live TV broadcast on Channels TV This comes just hours after President Goodluck Jonathan announced a ...Read More

Nigeria may have lost about N1trillon to the protests on removal of petrol subsidy as the nationwide shutdown championed by the organised  labour, civil societies and masses entered the fifth day. With grounding of commercial activities across the country and zero revenues from ...Read More

By Onyebuchi Ezeigbo and Aisha Wakaso Day Three of the nationwide strike and protests against the withdrawal of fuel subsidy by the Federal Government turned out to be a violent one as rioters burnt down the Minna, Niger State office of ...Read More