Six people were killed on Sunday in Oke Afo, near Badagry, Lagos State, when a car driven by a Customs officer veered off the Lagos-Badagry Expressway. FRSC Assistant Road Commander Hussein Haruna told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the d...
The Gombe State Commissioner of Police, Mr Orubebe Ebikeme, has confirmed the bombing of the Mobile Police base in Kwame, in Kwame local government area, on Sunday killing no fewer than three persons. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) repor...
When the Nations Cup kicks off in January next year in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Algeria and South Africa will not be participating. Not because they are not good enough but because they did not qualify. With these five tea...
Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard, making his first start of the season, appeared to have won the derby when he fed a free-kick through a hospitable-looking United wall in the lunchtime kick-off. However, having failed to threaten for the majority of th...
The proposal raised last week by deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, about legalising prostitution in the country has generated heated debate among moralists and socialists alike. Besides, like one respondent puts it, prostitution is a reality of ...
Abuja as a growing city is faced with a lot of challenges, many of them bothering on infrastructure. CATHERINE AGBO reports that shopping malls and public buildings in the city have little or no provision for parking of cars in their facilities. "...
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) administration has been working tirelessly to ensure that all the squatter settlements that might portray the Capital city in bad light are completely demolished. One of such settlements is Pyakassa village which see...
Traffic congestion is a massive problem in Lagos State. This challenge, coupled with specific problems such as infrastructural weakness, demographic shift and enforcement of traffic laws, have made traffic management in the state a nightmare. In this r...
Plans by Federal Government to push a security related bill that would empower it to eavesdrop on telephone conversations of the general public is generating some controversy. SHUAIB SHUAIB examines the issues, citing related examples from India,...
The Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Ama Pepple, has urged private investors to ensure that good, affordable and high quality houses are provided for Nigerians.She disclosed this yesterday in Abuja at the “Ground Breaking event” o...
Ekiti State indigenes have been urged to go into rice farming in order to create jobs for the teeming unemployed youths in the state and equally boost food production in the country. The minister of trade and investments, Dr. Segun ...
Governor Umaru Tanko Al-Makura, has ordered the authorities of Nasarawa State Polytechnis to work out modalities of slashing the school fees. The public relation officer of the institution, Alhaji Muktar Wakeel, who spoke to the press shor...
A mob on Friday attacked the Nasarawa State Police command headquarters in Lafia with stones and bottles in protest against the alleged disruption of the Muslim Friday (Juma’at) prayers. An eyewitness said some mobile policemen who we...
Ambassador Vicki Huddleston, the U.S. deputy assistant secretary of defence for Africa, says that her country and Nigeria will strengthen ties in defence.Huddleston gave the assurance on Friday in Abuja when she paid a courtesy call on the minister of ...
The Cross River State Broadcasting Corporation (CRBC) has commenced test transmission from the Obudu Mountain Resort as part of the realisation of its universal coverage programme. According to the Cross River State governor, Liyel Imoke when fully ope...