Centre referee in Matchday 13 oriental derby between hosts, Heartland and Enyimba, Gabriel Adigwe has admitted attack on his person after the clash at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu. The titanic clash ended 3-2 in favour of the visitor...
Four persons including a commercial sex worker were Monday shot dead in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, following renewed clash between two rival cult groups based in the Niger Delta University (NDU), Amassoma in Southern Ijaw Local Council area of...
Gunmen shot dead three Christians in Nigeria near the flashpoint city of Jos, hours after 10 people were killed in a suicide bombing and related violence at a church, an official said Monday. In a separate incident in the northern city of Kano, gunmen ...
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) on Monday opened bids for 66 mega projects in accordance with the provisions of the Public Procurement Act. Dr. Christian Oboh, the Managing Director of the commission, who opened the bids in Port Harcourt,...
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Olugbenga Ashiru, on Monday in Abuja, tasked the 88 newly-appointed ambassadors to sustain efforts that would attract foreign investment to the country. The minister, who spoke at an induction course for the ...
A Federal High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, on Monday fixed April 3 for hearing of a suit filed by the Save Nigeria Group (SNG) against the Federal Government. The SNG had filed a N100 million suit against the Federal Government for deploying s...
The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) on Monday in Lagos called on Nigerians to shun religious sentiments and regard the Boko Haram sect as a common enemy. This, it said, would facilitate the eradication of the sect's menace. Reacting to Sunday...
In an effort to make pupils active participants in the electoral process, INEC said on Monday in Abuja that it would ensure that voter education became part of the secondary school curriculum. Prof. Lai Olurode, Chairman of the Board of Electoral Insti...
As the battle for the number one office of the ruling party rages on, Dr Musa Babayo an aspirant to the office of the National Chairman of the PDP argues that he has the most required competence in party administration to change the fortunes of the par...
It will be so smooth a political allusion to say that these lawmakers are troublemakers. Consider this scenario where the ever ready critics of the Senators would say; don’t mind them; “ They like to court trouble, they cherish it so much s...
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has spent the sum of $6.7 million through the Society for Family Health during a two-year project in Gombe wherein 11 local government area were targeted to save 60,000 women and their children &nb...
Nigeria’s progress towards reducing under five mortality is still slow, ranking 12th in the indicator with the ratio 143 to 1,000 live births in 2010, the State of World Children report, has showed. The report, a publicati...
The Delta State government is giving credence to the popular axiom that “the greatest happiness of the majority is the yardstick for measuring goodness”. This, perhaps, has been the propelling force behind the seemingly state government'...
Unlike in the past, the election that led to the emergence of the current Speaker of the Bayesal State House of Assembly was competitive and contested by notable legislators without the noticeable influence of the state governor, Seriake Dickson. Obser...
The Owerri event was electrifying. The pulse of the people could be felt everywhere in the state. The streets of Owerri and its environs were adorned with flags, buntings and banners, heralding the arrival of the Great Ojukwu. The young and old, includ...