The Borno Government had said that it would reactivate the 67,000 hectares South Chad Irrigation Project (SCIP) located on Lake Chad shores. The project, which was conceived by the Federal Government in the 70's, had been abandoned for years...
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has blamed the shortage of vaccines being experienced across the states of the federation on the recent bomb blast at the United Nations House. The acting executive director of t...
The trial of the December 25, 2009 airline bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, has gone tough and could as well become a potential issue in jury selection as his legal adviser on Wednesday threatened to challenge the prosecutors if they try to di...
The United Nations marked the World Teachers’ Day yesterday with a warning that 6.1 million more teachers were needed to meet the internationally agreed Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of attaining universal primary education by 2015. Two milli...
A former member of the upper chamber of National Assembly and elder statesman, Senator Suleiman Salawu, has declared that the much expected Yoruba leader will emerge soon. Salawu, who disclosed this in Osogbo yesterday in an exclusive...
Oprah Winfrey is the highest-earning woman in entertainment, according to Forbes magazine. The former talk show host earned $290 million from May 2010 to May 2011, besting the second place earner, Lady Gaga, by $200 million. Here’s the ful...
In a frantic effort to effect absolute utilisation of the N34 billion Universal Basic Education (UBE) fund, the governors of the 36 states of the federation are poised to raise the issue at the National Economic Council (NEC) meeting scheduled to hold ...
An Israeli scientist, Daniel Shechtman, has won this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering a material, quasicrystals, in which atoms were packed together in a well-defined pattern that never repeats. Such regular but non-repeating patte...
Niger State Governor Muazu Babangida Aliyu has said that the mass failures recorded in schools was an indication of poor teaching and learning, and an embarrassment to teachers. Governor Aliyu who was represented by the Deputy Governor, Hon Ahmed...
The Federal High Court in Lafia, the capital of Nasarawa State, yesterday ruled on its earlier judgement directing the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to issue a certificate of returns to Solomon Ewuga, one time minister of stat...
Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) Youth Leader in Kogi State, Prince Sani Ogu Salisu, has declared that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would be sent packing in the December governorship election in the state. Speaking in a telepho...
A non–governmental organisation, the Movement For Social Justice and Equity (MSJE), has expressed concern over an alleged secret movement by some political forces in the country to persecute the former governor of Gombe State, Senator Muham...
A Bauchi-based social group, the Association for the Support of Higher Education (ASHE) has organised a civic reception in honour of the first female professor in Bauchi State, Prof. Fatima Jafar Tahir. The event, according to the Chairman of the Assoc...
As part of measures to ease the traffic bottleneck that characterize some parts of Lagos Island, the state governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, yesterday commissioned the Falomo On-Ramp Bridge constructed at the cost of N2.5 billion. Speaking at the ...
The director-general, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Mr. Ajayi Femi, has appealed to the Federal Government to assist the agency to enable it to fight war against drug trafficking in the country. Femi, who stated this recently when ...