Nigeria's bid for the position of the World Bank president on Friday received a boost as South Africa and Angola endorsed the candidature of Nigeria's Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, for the job. The South African Finance Minister,...
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has deployed 5,000 personnel for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) convention and 10, 000 others for the JAMB examination both slated for Saturday in Abuja. A statement signed by the Corps Public Re...
An Ikeja High Court in Lagos on Friday dismissed a suit asking it to compel the Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to prosecute the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Alhaji Abdullahi Dikko, for alleged certificate fo...
Sen. Ibrahim Mantu, Chairman, Bamanga Tukur Campaign Organisation, said on Friday that the election of national chairman of the PDP rested on delegates to Saturday’s convention of the party. He stated this at a dinner Abuja whil...
WHITNEY Houston planned to remarry ex-hubby Bobby Brown, claims a pal.Derrick Handspike, who wrote a book about Bobby, says the pair reunited weeks before her death.He said: "They were planning a small wedding with just their daughter Krissi....
Justice Lawal Gummi, Chief Judge of the FCT High Court, has appointed Justice Folasade Ojo as the vacation judge during the Easter break. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the FCT High Court will proceed on Easter break from Friday, April 6...
More than 4,500 delegates are expected to participate at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Convention slated for Saturday, March 24 in Abuja. The delegates are to decide the fate of the more than 78 aspirants vying for the membership of...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on Friday confiscated some telecommunications equipment, belonging to a branch of Ecobank along Akpapkava Road in Benin, for alleged breach of NCC's frequency regulation. Mr Reuben Muoka, Hea...
The World Bank and African Development Bank has condemned the military coup in Mali and suspended project financing to the West African country, the institutions said in a joint statement. "Our development operations are suspended, with the except...
Usher has confirmed that he's set to play Sugar Ray Leonard in an upcoming boxing film called Hands Of Stone. Leonard, a world champion in five different weight divisions, finally retired from boxing in 1997 after a number of comebacks. The film is...
President Goodluck Jonathan and the Prime Minister of Norway, Jens Stoltenberg are to serve as founding co-chairs of the Commission on Life-saving Commodities for Women and Children. UNICEF and UNEPA stated this in a joint statement made availabl...
The House of Representatives has said that pending the conclusion of its in-house investigation into the N44 million corruption scandal rocking the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the House Committee on Capital Market, inflammatory comment...
One week after a middle-aged man, Musa Inua, caused a stir within the premises of the Federal High Court in Abuja, after he climbed a telecommunications mast with the intent to commit suicide over an alleged N15 million debt, owed him by former Vice-Pr...
Four persons were feared dead when persons suspected to be armed robbers, Wednesday, raided Dankama market, a local border market in Kaita local government of Katsina State, and allegedly carted away undisclosed sums of money. The Dankama market, which...
Tragedy struck yesterday in Takau village of Jema’a Local Government Area in Kaduna State, when three youths of the area lost their lives after inhaling smoke from a power generator while attempting to drain water from a well. A family source tol...