The United Kingdom (UK) has announced that it would start the processing of visitors visas for people coming from outside the country to watch the Olympic and Paralympic games from January 1 2012. The Games, according to a statement made availabl...
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has inaugurated a 17-man committee to review its planned proposal to host the 2018 Youth Olympic Games. The advisory committee is also to advise if the games could be hosted without much cost to the g...
Home-based Super Eagles defender, Chibuzor Okonkwo, has described himself as the best full back in the Eagles camp. When asked by Assistant Coach, Daniel Amokachi about his readiness for the task ahead he said he believes more in action rather than tal...
Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi has charged his wards from the local scene to do all they can and give the foreign professionals a fight. He said he wants them to dethrone the foreign players. Keshi had his maiden meeting with the home-based national ...
The Senate against all odds finally adopted the recommendation of its Adhoc committee that probed alleged fleece in the BPE. UCHENNA AWOM in this analysis declares that the ball is now in the court of the executive arm of government. President o...
The Senate yesterday said it never at any time barred President Goodluck Jonathan from drawing from the 2011 Budget beyond December 31. It Instead said it had rather empowered the President to extend the spending to March 31, 2012. Ch...
The Federal Government has assured Nigerians that in less than 24 months, the current refineries in the country would become 90 per cent operational, and that the application of the money saved from the petroleum subsidy would generate over one million...
The Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology yesterday summoned the management of Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) and officials of the ministry of environment over the oil spill in Bonga deep water facility off the coast of Nigeria. ...
The Appeal Court Tribunal Sitting in Enugu has nullified the election of Mr Andy Uba as senator representing Anambra South district during the April National Assembly Elections held in the state. Also, the tribunal led by ...
The findings of the 2010 Integrated Biological and Behavioural Survey among the high risk groups in Nigeria, show increase of HIV prevalence among men who have sex with men (MSM). The Minister of Health, Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu, said this at a meet...
Alhaji Abubakar Audu, the ACN candidate in the Dec. 3 governorship election in Kogi, has filed a petition challenging the result of the election as announced by INEC.Audu, who filed the petition on Wednesday at the state High Court complex in Lokoja, r...
The National working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA ) on Thursday in Abuja announced a 14-man committee for the burial of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegu-Ojukwu. A statement, signed by Chief Ifeanacho Oguejofor, the party’s ...
The National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) has said that the number of persons on Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) will increase from 400,000 to 600,000 in 2012.Prof. John Idoko, Director General, made this known in Abuja on Wednesday during an en...
The Police said in Lokoja on Wednesday that they are on the trail of members of a robbery gang that robbed the branches of G.T. Bank, UBA and Intercontinental Bank in Okene on Tuesday. The Kogi police command spokesman, Mr Ajayi Okasanmi, who confirmed...
The Senate yesterday said that it, among other legislative functions, introduced a total of 106 bills and passed one since the inception of the seventh session on June 6, 2011. The passed bill was the controversial same sex marriage prohibition bill. C...