Penultimate Monday, an orphanage owned by the Missionary Alliance for Africa, MAFA , known as Bethany Home, was completely razed down by a broad daylight fire outbreak. Thankfully, all the occupants were ferried to safety, averting a major disaster. Th...
The popularity and performance ratings of Kwara State governor, Alh. AbdulFatah Ahmed suddenly looked up during the week. The subsidy palliatives rolled out by the state government to cushion the effects of the fuel subsidy removal did the magic. Indee...
Captain Idris Wada thethen goveernor-elect and Alhaji Abdullahi Bello, Speaker, Kogi State House of Assembly, made history last week when the two of them ruled Kogi state as governor and acting governor respectively. Following the sacking of governors ...
The urban renewal policy of the Nasarawa state government has turned Lafia, the state capital into a huge construction yard, as scores of road construction are going on simultaneously. The governor of the state, Tanko Al-Makura, had during the hay days...
The two most successful teams in the last seven years Man United and Chelsea will clash today at Stamford Bridge in this early awaited encounter. Man United and Chelsea have won the league between them in the last seven season and in previous seasons, ...
It’s West Africa versus North Africa today as tournament favourites Ghana will tonight take on Tunisia for the semi final ticket in the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations. With the absence of big guns, Ghana and Ivory Coast have been installed as the ...
The African Development Bank (AfDB), says the bank has not disbursed the N111 billion (700 million dollars) loan meant to support Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the country. The AfDB approved the loan in 2009 and it was supposed to be disbursed...
Voting commenced on schedule in most polling units in Yola in Saturday’s governorship election. Voting commenced at exactly 12.30 p.m. in most polling units in Yola as scheduled, with the exercise going on smoothly without any hitch. At Kof...
Gov. Patrick Yakowa of Kaduna State on Saturday urged Muslim faithful to pray for peace, unity and economic growth of the state in particular and the nation in general. Yakowa made the appeal at the 2012 Eid-el-Maulud worldwide annual annual celebratio...
No less than six political parties registered for the by-election into Soba federal constituency, Alhaji Yakubu Mohammed, Electoral Officer of the council, said on Saturday Mohammed told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Soba that the parties w...
The Mega Progressive Peoples Party (MPPP) says it will not replace Chief Oduduogwu Ogbotobe, its late candidate for the Bayelsa governorship election slated for Feb. 11. The Bayelsa Chairman of the party, Chief Isaac Eze, dropped the hint in a telephon...
With exactly six months to the London 2012 Games, the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) has handed over the Olympic and Paralympic Village site to the London 2012 Organising Committee (LOCOG). Four-time Olympic gold medalist, Matthew Pinsent, helped to ...
Members of the Amalgamated Market Traders Association of Anambra State (AMATAS) have warned that any more killing of Igbo indigenes in the North would be retaliated in the South- East. In an address of protest presented to the chairman of the South-Eas...
The Nigerian Customs Service and the Nigeria Union of Teachers have continued to disagree on the recent incident at the United Secondary School, Ijokodo in Ibadan, Oyo State, in which a teacher was allegedly manhandled by some armed customs men for dis...
The family of the commercial bus attendant, Mr. Rashidi Alabi, who was alleged to have been forcefully pulled down from a moving Volkswagen 14-seater commercial bus with registration number XZ 78 AGL by officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management A...