Nigeria’s economy loses N455 billion (US$3 billion, 1.3 per cent of GDP) each year due to poor sanitation, according to a report released on Tuesday by the World Bank’s Water and Sanitation Programme.
Author: Dotun Oladipo
The Kwara State Governor, Alhaji AbdulFatah Ahmed, has commiserated with the Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, on the death of his mother, Mrs. Dorcas Aina Fayemi.
The Committee of Concerned Northern Professionals, Politicians, Academics and Businessmen has said that the issue of whether President Goodluck Jonathan is into his first or second term in office is a serious and weighty constitutional issue that only the courts can determine.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has said it received with happiness the news of the conviction of a former Governor of Delta State, Chief James Onanefe Ibori, by a Southwark Crown Court in London on Tuesday.
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has joined the list of prominent Nigerians who have mourned the former President General of the Urhobo Progress Union, His Royal Highness, Chief Benjamin Okumagba, the Orosuen of Okere-Urhobo Kingdom.
Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has commiserated the management and staff of Independent Television, Benin over the death of their cameraman, Mr. Chuka Ogu, who was shot dead by suspected armed robbers.
As the campaign for the July 14, 2012 election kicked off in Edo State on Tuesday, Governor Adams Oshiomhole has fired the first salvo at his Peoples Democratic Party opponent, Charles Airhavbere, asking him to tell the Edo people and indeed Nigerians why he was detained for three months by the Army authorities while still in service.
Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State on Monday went tough on the contractors handling the construction of the two new ultra-modern motor parks in Ibadan metropolis, warning them to either brace up or lose the projects.
The Edo State Government has concluded plans to introduce the study of Bini language into the state’s school curricula, Governor Adams Oshiomhole disclosed on Tuesday.
At the end of its meeting in Akure, Ondo State, the Zone B of the Nigeria Union of Journalists adopted the National President of the union, Mallam Muhammed Garba, for a second term.
The Peoples Democratic Party in the South West has questioned the rationale behind the release of federal allocation to the Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, in spite of the change of the state’s name to the State of Osun, which is allien to the Constitution of Nigeria.
Our attention has been drawn to this fairy tale about a purported multi-billion naira mansion being built by Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, in his native Iyamho, concocted by an online publication, The Will, and parroted by Nigerian Compass of Monday, April 16, 2012.
A former London DIY store cashier who became governor of an oil-rich Nigerian state has been jailed for 13 years for fraud totalling nearly £50 million ($77 million).
The Independent National Electoral Commission on Tuesday visited the national headquarters of the United Peoples Grand Alliance in Abuja.
President Goodluck Jonathan; the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Waziri Tambuwal; and the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, are among notable Nigerians who have sent messages of goodwill to the President of the Senate, Senator David Mark.
A former Delta State Governor, Chief James Ibori has been sentenced to 13 years imprisonment.
History-seeking Jose Mourinho of Real Madrid goes into the first of this double-edged tie mindful of Bayern Munich’s superior record over his side in the championship.
The sentencing of a former Governor of Delta State, Chief James Onanefe Ibori, has begun.
As a former Governor of Delta State, Chief James Onanefe Ibori, returns to the Southwark Crown Court on Tuesday (today) to be handed his sentence for charges bothering on money laundering and corruption, his kinsmen from Umu Anioma, Delta State, have expressed gratitude to the British judicial system and the media for not compromising their stance on the corruption case.
A baby boy, now four days old, born with extra limbs on his lower abdomen at a government hospital in Sukkur was on Monday brought to the National Institute of Child Health, where senior doctors described him a rare and complicated case.