The recent delineation of additional eleven wards in Delta State by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) based on the 2006 census of population has angered the Federated Niger Delta Ijaw Communities (FNDIC), a pro-democracy pressure group which says it

Teachers Salary Structure (TSS), the implementation of which is bone of contention between striking public school teachers and federal government goes beyond remuneration.

The Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) said yesterday sacking striking teachers in Niger State would not bring an end to the ongoing strike embarked upon by members of the union.

AS the panel instituted by the National Sports Commission to investigate allegations of bribery and corruption in Nigerian football league ended its Lagos sitting on Tuesday, a renowned football administrator and match commissioner, Austin Akosa fears that the exercise might

The discussion between federal government and the striking teachers over non-payment of Teachers Salary Structure (TSS), which triggered a nationwide strike has collapsed, the teachers' union said yesterday.

The Action Congress (AC) has warned that the judiciary may lose its confidence if nothing is done to check the contradiction in the rulings of election tribunals in the country.

Any hope that the Power Sector probe will see the light of the day soon may be totally misplaced because even though the committee wound up sitting more than two months ago its report has still not been presented to

Beginning from May this year when the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) called out its members on a three-day warning strike and the commencement of a full-blown strike from June 30, teaching and learning activities have been put on hold

For mainly man-made reasons, road accidents have become constant news items in Nigeria. Considering the fact that most of them are avoidable, it would be unfortunate indeed for the country to continue to harvest more casualties and other losses.

Federal Government said yesterday that it had uncovered a cartel that hijacked and diverted fertilizer distribution, thus raising the spectre of food crisis in the country.

Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources (Upstream Sector) has kicked against the agreement entered into by Shell and Agip over leasing of some oil fields.

As a gender activist and secondly, as a Parliamentarian, I will provide an understanding of the Sierra Leone Parliament by highlighting its work thus far in relation to sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). I will give a situational analysis of

FAWE is a Pan- African organization with operations in thirty-five countries in Africa. FAWE Sierra Leone was started in 1995, at the height of the civil war.

Britain is to help Nigeria crack down on violence which has disrupted oil supplies in the troubled Niger Delta through a security training force, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said yesterday.

A startling revelation emerged yesterday about the Green Tree Agreement (GTA), the treaty ceding the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon, as military authorities spoke about the security implications of the agreement.

A consortium promoted by ex-MTN Nigeria top executives has launched a bid for stakes to be unbundled by Transnational Corporation (Transcorp) in Nigeria's pioneer national operator, the Nigeria Telecomm-unications Limited (NITEL).

The Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Ilorin, Kwara State yesterday upheld the election of Governor Abubakar Bukola Saraki and declared him winner of the April 14, 2007 governorship election by striking out the consolidated petitions filed before it by the

Senator Liyel Imoke, who was sacked as Governor of Cross River State by the Appeal Court on Monday has opened up on the judgement, saying that he was caught unawares and shocked as he least expected the verdict but expressed

GOVERNOR Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu of Niger State has described the Teachers Salary Scale (TSS) being demanded by the National Union of Teachers (NUT) as unrealizable and impracticable and cannot therefore be implemented in his state.

The trouble with Nigerian youths has been highlighted by the death of a dozen or more applicants for jobs at the Nigeria Immigration Service last Saturday.