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THE Plateau State House of Assembly has inaugurated a forum of former legislators. Held in Jos, Plateau State capital yesterday, the event brought together veteran legislators including the first Speaker of the

THE Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, yesterday praised the leadership style and development strides of Anambra State Governor Peter Obi. According to the Igbo leader and elder statesman, Obi represents goodness and

ALL on-going projects will be completed before the expiration of the tenure of the current Kano State government, according to Governor Ibrahim Shekarau. Opening a yearly retreat for Commissioners and Special Advisers

TASK Systems Limited, Nigeria's leading value-added Integrated ICT Solutions Company has clinched the coveted ISO-9001:2000 standard award. Announcing the award to the press, Mr. Stanley Okpaleke, Managing Director of the company stated

GOVERNOR Theodore Orji has pleaded with workers of the Abia State University (ABSU), Uturu not to carry out their threat to embark on strike over the delay in payment of their three

THE editorial representative of The Guardian Newspapers in Edo State, Alemma-Ozioruva Aliu, recently emerged as the best Health Reporter (Print) of the year 2009 at the maiden award and luncheon night organised

 HISTORIC. Really historic. That is the way to describe the swearing in of Justice Iyorgher Aloysius Katsina-Alu as the new Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) by the outgoing Chief Justice Idris Legbo

UNDETERRED by the sudden change in the burial arrangement for his wife, Maryam, sypathisers led by prominent politicians and military bigwigs trooped in large numbers to the hill-top mansion of the former

No Al-Qaeda group in Nigeria, say clerics VARIOUS Islamic organisations in Nigeria, including the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) and the Assembly of Moslems in Nigeria (AMIN) yesterday joined in

THE arrest of a Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, over an attempt to blow up a United States Airliner belonging to Delta Airlines, has raised fresh concern about aviation security in not