Jega said this while fielding questions from newsmen at a one-day workshop organized by the United Development Programme and the Democratic Governance for Development Project in collaboration with Inter-Party Advisory Council on the revalidation of the reviewed code of conduct for political parties in Minna, the Niger State capital
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Governor Uduaghan, who acknowledged that putting up proper legal structures would ensure that government would be properly guided to continue with efforts to make the environment friendly, explained that the law was geared at providing a legal structure necessary for the state and its people to key into the Green Economy Initiatives of international agencies
The Army, in a statement on Tuesday by the Director, Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Ibrahim Attahiru, said the report that Al-Mustapha would automatically be made a General was erroneous
The group recalled that 13 Nigerian soldiers were killed in Sudan in 2008 and are yet to be compensated
Dissatisfied with Ojougbo’s submission, Igumbor said the tension in the area has forced the union to petition the state Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, and security agencies to beef up the security in the area in order to forestall a break down of law and order
The protesters had besieged the airport shortly before the arrival of Governors Murtala Nyako (Adamawa), Sule Lamido (Jigawa) and Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano) at the Port Harcourt International Airport
He solicited the cooperation of both orthodox and traditional medical practitioners in the effort to apprehend other suspects currently on the run with bullet wounds
The decision was reached on Tuesday at the National Executive Committee meeting of ASUP
Journalists, who were invited to a press briefing by officials of the party, also sustained various degrees of injuries
This was contained in a statement by Tony Okeke, the party`s Acting National Publicity Secretary, in Abuja on Monday
Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, who inaugurated the commission, urged them to investigate and ascertain the remote and immediate causes of the crises
The Minister of State for Finance, Dr. Yerima Ngama, told newsmen after the FAAC meeting that the distributable statutory revenue for the month was N623.76 billion
ASUU made its position known in Abuja when it appeared before the joint National Assembly Committees on Education
Amadi said that investors would not come to invest in the country without good and fair tariff, stressing that fixed charge was component of electricity tariff all over the world
The two-day Summit, with the theme: “Ownership, Accountability and Sustainability to HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Response in Africa: Past, Present and Future”, is being attended by most African leaders
The Acting National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Barrister Tony Caesar Okeke, in a statement issued in Abuja, said such call was an indication that the opposition party is indeed unserious, lacked direction and only seeks to destabilize the polity
The Nigeria Bar Association is the complainant in all the matters
He is accused of allegedly masterminding genocide and other atrocities during the Darfur conflict, charges which he has repeatedly denied
Olukolade said that where there was any case of violation, the DHQ would instantly investigate and punish perpetrators
To the credit of President Olusegun Obasanjo, he let us do the work even at a time we were going against some elements that were extremely close to him. It is therefore amusing when I hear people these days charge me of “selective justice”