Chairman of the Enugu State Independent Electoral Commission (ENSIEC), Dr. Boniface Eneh has disclosed budgetary plans by the commission to spend N502 million in the planning and conduct of the December 10 local government elections in the state. Dr. Eneh, who had foot dragged before releasing the figure to newsmen in Enugu yesterday, said he […]
Ekiti State Government has ejected over 30 physically challenged Deltans in their various special educational institutions, it was learnt yesterday in Asaba, Delta State capital. The government, it was said, took the decision due to the huge fund being spent on their welfare which it claimed was eating deep into the state lean resources. Besides, […]
The downward trend being experienced in the education sector, particularly the higher institutions has been blamed on a dysfunctional system of the system and underfunding in different secondary and tertiary institutions in the country. This was the thrust of the first ‘Civil Society Summit on the Structure and Funding of 21st Century Higher Education in […]
Wife of Osun State Governor, Mrs. Sherifat Aregbesola has called on women holding political power to use their position to better the lot of women and children and prove to men that women are capable of performing enviably in positions of authority. Aregbesola gave the charge at the opening of two days induction course on […]
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 Baba Suwe Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section Detained Lagos-based comedian, Babatunde Omidina, a.k.a Baba Suwe, yesterday filed a fresh motion praying a Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos to vacate its earlier order made on October 21, empowering the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to […]
The lingering crisis over the Excess Crude Account deepened yesterday with state governors praying the Supreme Court to stop the Federal Government from making any withdrawals, howsoever, from the account styled the “Excess Crude Account” (or any account replacing same by any name howsoever) pending the hearing and determination of a suit they filed in […]
The Jama’atu Ahlus Sunnati Lidda’awati Wal Jihad, otherwise known as Boko Haram said that they were responsible for the killing of Zakariyya Isa, a reporter with the Nigerian Television Authority’s (NTA) Maiduguri Network Centre. The group has also claimed responsibility for Saturday night’s multiple attacks on a police station and banks in Saminaka, Kaduna State […]
Governor Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe State has lost his youngest wife, Hajiya Zainab to the cold hand of death yesterday morning. She was said to have died at the National Hospital Abuja from a protracted illness, which treatment was actually started in Egypt but she was brought back to the country in the wake of […]
The Supreme Court has fixed October 31, 2011 to deliver judgement in the consolidated appeals bordering on the Borno State Governorship Election Petition where the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate in the April 26, 2011 polls, Alhaji Mohammed Goni is challenging the victory of Governor Kashim Shettima of the All Nigeria Peoples Party […]
Citing the need to protect national security, a Federal High Court Judge, Justice Okechukwu Okeke yesterday ordered journalists, lawyers and litigants to leave the court room as trial commenced in the arms importation case against two persons, an Iranian and a Nigerian. The Iranian, Azim Aghajani and Alli Abass Jega are currently being tried for […]
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