Despite all efforts by host governor Isa Yuguda and some other governors of the North-East geo-political zone, delegates in Bauchi yesterday voted for Dr. Musa Babayo, the immediate past national secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as their...
The conditions of trade as stipulated under the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) have been described as too stringent and would further impoverish the African continent by stifling economic growth and development. Former governor of the Central B...
Nine gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram sect were yesterday killed by soldiers in a gun duel at Tudun Wada Dakadai town in Tudun Wada local government area of Kano State. The Joint Task Force (JTF) which carried out the operation has recovere...
The minister of petroleum resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, has been vindicated by a Vienna-based Regional Court for Criminal Matters over an alleged purchase of a 20 million euro mansion in the Austrian capital last November. Slamming the Heute ...
Indications emerged yesterday that a fresh massive fraud of an alleged N18billion illegal transactions had been unearthed by the Pension Reform Task Force at the Police Pension Office (PPO). A source close to the ministerial taskforce also confided in ...
Suspected financier of Boko Haram and serving senator, Ali Ndume, standing trial for alleged complicity in the activities of the Jama'atu Ahlis Sunnah Lidda'awati Wal Jihad, otherwise known as Boko Haram, yesterday, asked a Federal High Court i...
The Kaduna State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of one Mustapha Adamu and one other for alleged involvement in the death of an officer of Vehicle Inspection Office (VIO) Jos-Akwanga road in Jema’a Local Government Area of the State. The ...
Following the petition filed by former member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Dino Melaye before the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) against the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Ibrahim Idris, the commission has decided to i...
No fewer than six persons were yesterday admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital (UTH) Ado Ekiti, and 14 others receiving treatments as a result of the various degrees of injuries they sustained, ...
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Dahiru Musdapher yesterday assured Nigerians that the recommendations of the Stakeholders Judicial Reform Committee he set up on the reform of the judiciary would not be left unimplemented. The CJN who is als...
The Ministry of Education has concluded plans to organise a West African regional workshop on curriculum and teacher capacity building, in October this year, to address the problem of poor functional skills in school graduates. Inaugurating the steerin...
One of the leading contenders for the National Chairmanship of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Barrister Ibrahim Shehu Birma, has chided the leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) over his recent statement that PDP is trying to explo...
President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Aminu Maigari has praised the calibre of Nigerian coaches attending the on-going CAF ‘B’ License programme being organised by the NFF, and endorsed by the Confederation of African Footbal...
Seven-time African champions Egypt want to play Nigeria in a friendly next month. Spokesman for the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Ademola Olajire revealed that they have received a request from the Egyptian Football Association (EFA) for a friendl...
Recently, the National Bureau of Statistics gave out a report on the nation’s poverty index, where Katsina State ranked among the top five states with highest rate of poverty. Although states have reacted to the reports, analysts believe that it ...