From L-R: Comrade Chris Uyot, Ag. General Secretary, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade John Odah, erstwhile General Secretary, NLC, Comrade Kiri Mohammed, Deputy President, NLC and Abdulwahed Omar, NLC President,singing solidarity song at the Labour House on the day Odah was reinstated as General Secretary after a consent judgement by the National Industrial Court. ...

Publishers  of Kaduna based Hausa Newspaper  Al Mizan have demanded the release of the paper’s editor, Musa Muhammad Awwal who has been  rearrested by security operatives . Editor in Chief of the paper ,Ibrahim Musa  said in a statement, “On behalf of the I. M. Publication, publishers of Al-Mizan Newspaper, we hereby call for the immediate and unconditional release of Musa Muhammad Awwal whose arrest has vi ...

Bayelsa state Governor Hon. Seriake Dickson on Thursday presented a bank draft of N3.9bn to Julius Berger Plc and Rafoe Nigeria Limited to fast track the developmental projects embarked upon by his administration in the State. Making the presentation as part of activities marking his one year in office, Hon. Dickson said the amount paid was part of savings from the 17.22 bn released from the state monthly s ...

Writer, Journalist and Filmmaker, Casey Imafidon kick-starts the first quarter of the Abuja Writers Forum’s readings on February 23 at Hamdala Plaza, Plot 23, Jimmy Carter Street, off Protea Hotel, Asokoro, Abuja. An indigene of Edo State, Imafodon was born and raised in Lagos. After his secondary school stint, he proceeded to the Nigeria Institute of Journalism and got a grounding in Mass Communications, w ...

By Abdulgafar Oladimeji Nigerian Premier League club  chairmen would be meeting with the league’s governing body on Friday to determine the fate of the league’s  proposed to kick off on March, 9. A press release signed by the executive secretary of the league body, Tunji  Babalola stated that, the  motive behind the meeting  is to deliberate on the way forward, stating that the change in the earlier propose ...

It is a mistake to think that just any criticism of those in authority is intended to spur action in the positive direction. Many do not fully understand the unique and complex background from which Abia state recently emerged. it was a failed state in every sense of it . For 8 solid years Abia state remained under the struggle hold of despotism and demagoguery. It was a regime that smacked of inconsistenci ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on February 13, 2013 arraigned one Ikechukwu Amaefula before Justice Olasumbo Olarenwaju Goodluck of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Zuba, on a four count charge bordering on issuance of Dud Cheque. One of the charge reads, “ That you Ikechukwu Amefula, on or about the 10th August 2009 in Abuja, within the jurisdiction of this honorable court obtained c ...

It is not uncommon to hear that the Nigerian race is quite different, unique and specially moulded to fit into any situation and circumstances. We are a people who, if properly put, belong to a somewhat genetically re-engineered race, openly defying even the Aryan racial supremacy theory propounded by the Nazis of Germany in the 30s and 40s. Nigerians are a race so complex that our actions and inactions sui ...

Delta State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan has advocated a national dialogue among Nigerians as a way forward for peace, unity and progress in the country. The Governor who stated this  today when members of the national working committee of the National Summit Group (NSG) visited him in Asaba, said proper integration after frank talk among Nigerians would help foster unity in the country. “I believe that w ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, February 12, 2013 told a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja that Oluwaseun Ogunbambo, Kabila Theck and Fargo Petroleum and Gas Limited, who  are  being tried on a 10-count amended charge forged cargo and freight documents  used in falsely obtaining the sum of N976, 653,110.28 (Nine Hundred and Seventy Six Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Three Tho ...