President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday in Seoul said Nigeria would replicate the experience of the Asian Tigers to transform the nation into a major economy by 2020. Jonathan stated this at the Nigeria-Korean Investment Forum on Infrastructure and...
Pope Benedict at a huge outdoor Mass on Sunday condemned drug trafficking and corruption in Mexico, urging people to renounce violence in the country where a brutal war between cartels has killed tens of thousands of people. On his last day in Mexico, ...
A senior Lecturer with Auchi Polytechnic in Edo, Mr Moses Egbape, has been abducted by gunmen at his residence in South Ibie of Etsako West Local Government Area of the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the incident occurred on Satur...
Tiger Woods ended his two-and-a-half-year US Tour win drought in fine style as he stormed to victory in the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill.The former world number one shot a final round 70 to finish at 13-under-par at the Bay Hill course...
As the power outages nationwide continue to worsen, most parts of the city of Lagos last week experienced one of its worst blackouts in recent times. ...
The Proprietor and Pro-Chancellor, Baze University, Abuja Dr Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, in this interview with AUWAL S. MU'AZU, says the university is providing British-style education at home, among other issues. How did you manage to attain a Ph.D. ...
The University of Port Harcourt Sports Complex in the Garden City capital of Rivers State will host the first leg of the 2012 AFN Golden Leg this weekend. Assistant Secretary of the AFN, Mrs Rita Akande confirmed at the weekend that all participating s...
The paradox of human psychology is the tendency to resist what is already known as the most inevitable, CHANGE. Nothing has ever been known to be as permanent as change, not even human beings themselves who come to this world through birth as infants, ...
Following the outcome of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, last Saturday’ national convention which threw up Alhaji Bamanga Tukur as the party’s national chairman, notable politicians from within and outside the party have con...
The Senate, as part of its resolve to monitor the public transport regulations, has invited Transport Minister, Senator Idris Umar, Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mrs. Ifueko Omoigui-Okauru and the Chairman of the Federal Road S...
President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Dame Patience, yesterday, arrived Incheon Airport, South Korea in the company of Delta State Governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan and his Taraba State counterpart, Danbaba Suntai for the Nuclear Security Summit in...
The post election legal tussle has taken another dimension in Kogi State as the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) stormed the tribunal with video clips by witnesses. The governorship candidate of ACN, Prince Abubakar Audu, said that the move was aimed a...
The abundant investment opportunities in Nigeria as well as the statistics to back the fact that Nigeria remains an investors haven and gateway to Africa was the fulcrum of presentations and discussions by the leadership of the Central Bank of Nigeria ...
The Manufacturing Association of Nigeria (MAN) has called on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to intervene in the lingering high interest rate in Nigeria’s financial sector, in order to boost manufacturing in the country. Chairman of MAN in Rive...
Chief Audu Ogbeh, one time presidential adviser on Agriculture and former Minister of Communications was among a high powered team that followed Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State to Egypt and Thailand during which agreements were reached on agro-...