The Special Task Force (STF) maintaining security in Plateau has arrested 163 persons over Sunday's violence in Barkin-Ladi Local Government Area where 10 people were officially confirmed killed. The STF on Thursday imposed a 24-hour curfew on the ...
A mother of four, Taiwo Arum, on Friday told an Igando Customary Court, Lagos, that her husband usually raped her in the presence of their children. Taiwo, 41, is seeking the order of the court to dissolve her 11-year-old marriage to Jamiu. The woman w...
Horror was let loose on Sabo Ajegunle in Sagamu Local Government area of Ogun State, yesterday, when dare-devil armed robbers attacked four banks, namely, Guarantee Trust , Sky, Diamond and Zenith, leaving 12 innocent persons dead. The robbers, who wer...
Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola has expressed the resolve of his government to probe his predecessor in office, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola over how the ex-governor’s regime utilized over N25 billion accrued to the state from the excess crude...
The Central Bank is planning to deploy a new real time gross settlement system that meets international standard, says the Governor of Central Bank, Lamido Sanusi. Sanusi who spoke on Thursday in Abuja at a book presentation entitled, ‘The ICT Re...
Piqued by the perceived nuisance value of commercial motorcycle operators known as ‘okada’ riders in Lagos governor, Babatunde Fashola (SAN), yesterday stormed the streets to personally arrest some operators who rode against the traffic.
The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Orubebe, has terminated the skills acquisition centre projects at Iguelaba, Edo State, following the contractors’ laxity. The contracts were awarded to M/S Chemtronics Nig. Ltd, (Lot 1), M/...
The House of Representatives yesterday mandated its Committee on Civil Societies and Donor Agencies to investigate all grants and assistance received by Nigeria, as part of efforts aimed at plugging leakages that aid corruption. The lawmakers made this...
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has called on the federal government start implementing the 26 percent budgetary allocation to education as recommended by UNESCO which Nigeria is a signatory. He made this call in a press conf...
Two politicians, Chika Madumere and Kemdi Opara, parties in the 2011 election petition tribunals, have asked a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to declare sections 285 subsections (6) and (7) which provides for the hearing of...
President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, approved the appointment of Prof Peter Nwilo as the Surveyor General of the federation. The president said that the appointment of Nwilo was based on his track record as “a renowned professor of surve...
Comrade Adams Oshiomhole is the governor of Edo State. In this interview with News Agency of Nigeria, he discusses his administration’s huge intervention in the area of infrastructure, job creation and his mission to transform the economy of his ...
Minister of Power, Prof. Bart Nnaji, has given a one-week ultimatum to Mabon Limited, the contractor handling the Dadinkowa Dam in Gombe State, a project conceived over 30 years ago, to prove its capability or have the contract terminated. The minister...
One of Nigeria’s political parties, the Movement for Democracy and Justice (MDJ), has said the arrest of Senator Ali Ndume (PDP, Borno South) by operatives of the State Security Service (SSS) over his alleged role in the sponsorship of the Islami...
Chairman, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Prof. Chidi Odinkalu, has described violence against women (VAW) is an atrocity that should be fought by all citizens. The human rights boss made this comment at the launch of the Network o...