El-Rufa’i begs Kaduna lawmakers to cut salaries, allowance

By Agaju Madugba

Kaduna—Kaduna State governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufa’i, has begged members of the House of Assembly to review their salaries and allowances downward in order to generate more revenue for the development of the state.
“The Deputy Governor and I have signalled our intention in this regard by announcing that we are taking a pay cut of 50 per cent of our salary and allowances until the fiscal situation of the state improves,” El-Rufa’i said, yesterday, when he paid a visit to the House of Assembly.

DEFECT: MARWA DEFECTS TO APC

By Umar Yusuf

Yola—Former Military Administrator of Lagos State, Brig Gen Buba Marwa, yesterday, announced his defection to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.

CANCER KILLS FASTER THAN MALARIA & HIV AIDS

Cancer kills more people globally than malaria, HIV and Tuberculosis (TB) combined, and impacts on low to middle- income countries like Nigeria.

Accordingly, the 2012 data of the International

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control continues to work to rid the nation of drug counterfeiters, but the problem seems enormous, writes Martins Ifijeh

Whenever the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) makes the news, it is almost certainly predictable what the content would be.

ERA/FOEN Rally against Water Privatisation in Lagos

  A rights advocacy group, the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth (ERA/FOEN) took to the streets of Lagos on Tuesday to condemn plans by the Lagos State Government and the World Bank to privatise water resources in the state.

In a demonstration that lasted for over four hours, advocates who trekked through Obafemi Awolowo Way in Ikeja to the Governor’s office in Alausa

Amaechi’s Younger Brother Attacked

  

By Ernest Chinwo in Port Harcourt.

Chidi Adi Amaechi, the younger brother of the Governor of Rivers State and Director-General of the All Progressives Congress (APC)

Bribery allegation: Amaechi lied -Lagos pastor

A Lagos-based pastor and Presiding Bishop, Resur­rection Praise Ministries for Africa, Bishop Ben­jamin Mustapha has said that Rivers State governor, Mr Rotimi Amaechi lied on the six billion naira bribe money allegedly of­fered by the Presidency to the Christian Association Nigeria (CAN).

PDP governors’ final push against Buhari, APC

When governors on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors Forum (PD­PGF) stormed Lagos on Monday, they did not leave anybody in doubt of their mission in a state reputed to be the Centre of Excellence. They were led to by their chairman, Godswill Akpabio, who doubles as Governor of Akwa Ibom State.