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I read with interest the statement credited to the Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, whilst launching the Eredo Primary Healthcare Centre Constituency II in Epe division recently. Whilst the efforts of the State government in improving the delivery of healthcare in the state remains commendable, certain comments and spurious impression being created by those in […]

Editor: The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has received reports showing that the election conducted in Oguta constituency of Imo State last Saturday, June 29, 2013, witnessed incidents of violence and unruly conduct by partisans, necessitating the cancellation of the election in eight (8) polling units. This cancellation made the election inconclusive. Field reports showed […]

Once again the issue of minimum wage is reverberating in the Nigerian media following the consideration by the National Assembly to move it from the exclusive list to the concurrent list in the 1999 Nigerian Constitution. By that proposal of the National Assembly, Part I, item 34 of Second Schedule will be amended to move […]

Minister of Education, Prof. Rukayyatu Rufa’i and Minister of Labour, Emeka Wogu on Tuesday met with members of the Senate Committee on Education in a bid to resolve the latest dispute between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Government. At the end of the meeting, the constitution of a task force […]

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has vowed to demolish a house at the Upper Sakponba Road area of the state where the three members of a gang that kidnapped the wife, daughter and driver of a judge of the Supreme Court, Justice Bode Rhodes-Vivour in May were kept. Oshiomhole showed visible anger on Tuesday […]

As the special consideration for first-time Hajj pilgrims take effect in the country, about 325 intending Muslim pilgrims from Plateau State have been disqualified from embarking on the pilgrimage. The major reason for their disqualification, according to the Plateau State Secretary of the Muslim Welfare Board, Salisu Musa, is that they had travelled more than […]

River State Governor, Rt. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi, Tuesday, escaped death by a whisker, when a suspicious motorist drove into his convoy along Igwuruta road,Port Harcourt.www.www.aso.rocks search engine understands that the governor was on his way to Port Harcourt International Airport when the accident occurred.  An eyewitness to the accident revealed that the accident was caused […]Read More

I wrote a few days ago about the shock from NSC rising to query the illegal Football Federation demands for N250Million funding on expenditures fully paid by FIFA because there is nothing else to explain such feeling since the Athletics Federation (AFN) perpetrated this fraud for many years and as the article that caused this […]

The Senate on Tuesday stated its intention to only consider the 2013 budget amendment in October when it returns from its two-month break that begins today. According to Chairman of the Senate Committee on Information, Media and Public Affairs, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe who was speaking at a press conference in Abuja, the Senate will only […]

The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged the Federal Government to punish perpetrators of human rights violence in the on-going military response to acts of terrorism in Northern Nigeria. In a letter to the Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution of Security Challenges in the North, HRW argued that serious crimes that violate international human […]

Former captain and coach of the Super Eagles of Nigeria, Christian Chukwu has urged the Federal Government to fulfil its promise to late Thompson Oliha, who died at the weekend. According to him, it is saddening that Oliha and all other players who won the Tunisia ‘94 Africa Cup of Nations have yet to receive […]

Editor: Arising from its NEC meeting at the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU) over the weekend, the Academic Staff Unions of Universities (ASUU) declared an indefinite strike action. As always, the issues that has forced the union to declare strike is the Federal Government’s persistent refusal to fully implement the FGN/ASUU agreement signed since 2009. The […]