Ten secondary school teachers are reported to have died of food poisoning, and several others hospitalised in Katsina. Investigations by the News Agency of Nigeria showed that the incident occurred at the weekend at a workshop organised by the state Ministry of Education for some 650 teachers at Government Day Secondary School, Kofar Yan’daka, […]
President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday explained why he chose former Senate President, Anyim Pius Anyim, as the Secretary to the Government of the Federation. Several names were shortlisted and submitted to the President by the leaders of the South East for possible appointment as SGF, following the zoning of the office to the geopolitical […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission is preparing for the possibility of conducting at least 25 bye- elections across the 36 states of the federation. The electoral body’s preparation is in anticipation of judicial pronouncements which may order for fresh elections. It is also anticipating that it could conduct fresh elections in the event of […]
Beleaguered president Sepp Blatter formally opened the 61st Fifa Congress on Tuesday warning of the dangers world football’s governing body is facing. Blatter, welcoming Fifa’s 208 delegates at the opening ceremony which featured jugglers, folk dancers and singer Grace Jones, said he would speak in more detail about the problems facing Fifa before the business […]
AS promised by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Ima Niboro that his principal would assent to the Freedom of Information Bill, FoI, as soon he receives the document from the National Assembly, President Goodluck Jonathan had since, Saturday, signed the bill into law. In a statement, a Deputy Director of Information in […]
A 40-year-old Bangladeshi woman cut off a man’s penis during an alleged attempted rape and took it to a police station as evidence, police in a remote part of Bangladesh said Monday. The woman, a married mother of three, was attacked while she was sleeping in her shanty in Jhalakathi district, some 200 kilometres (120 […]
Former Minister of Works, Dr Hassan Lawal, who is standing trial before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, has prayed the court to admit him to bail. Lawal is standing trial on laundering charges brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The court will on June 6 and 7 hear […]
Three loyalists of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, are feared dead, while about 60 hired commercial vehicles used by the activists were allegedly destroyed by policemen sent to stop the group’s assembly in Owerri, yesterday. The MASSOB members were heading to Owerri, Imo State capital, to mark the […]
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, appointed Senator Anyim Pius Anyim as Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF. The announcement which was conveyed in a statement by the Federal Government last night also confirmed the formal dissolution of the federal cabinet and the expiration of the tenure of the National Security Adviser, Lt. Gen. Andrew […]
ECONOMIC and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has started inviting some of the governors whose immunity expired on Sunday as new helmsmen took over the administration of their states. Also, some of them, believed to have fled the country, and who do not honour the commission’s invitation will be declared wanted promptly. Meantime, the commission has […]
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