House of Representatives, yesterday, differed from the decision of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, to cancel the conduct of University Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, in the violence-prone States of Kano, Borno and other relat...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has raised an alarm over moves by the presidency to jettison the report of the probe of the oil industry by the Faruk Lawan led committee in the House of Representatives. President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Comr...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Offences Commission, yesterday, swooped on the Federal Medical Centre, (FMC) Abeokuta, and quizzed its medical Director, Dr Dapo Sotiloye, for allegedly embezzling a sum of N88million meant for housing allowa...
Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has assured that his victory at the Supreme Court on the governorship legal tussle with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) finally marked the end of an era of darkness in the State. The Governor, who addressed a cro...
Members of the Enugu State House of Assembly have decried the poor security set up at the premises of the House Assembly complex. Hon. Okechukwu Nwoke, representing Igbo-Etiti West constituency, who raised the issue, yesterday, during the sitting of th...
Gov. Jonah Jang of Plateau declared on Tuesday in Jos that the recent attack on COCIN headquarters Church in Jos was carried out by forces outside the state. Jang, who stated this when he received the COCIN President, Rev. Soja Bewarang, who led the Ex...
Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Monday in Lagos commended former President Olusegun Obasanjo for his ``early endorsement of democracy that is sweeping’’ through the African continent. The Liberian gave the commendation in...
Civic leaders in Libya's eastern Cyrenaica province, home to most of the country's oil, have declared the creation of a council to administer the province's affairs. Tuesday's declaration does not carry official force but it puts the pr...
The Kebbi Department of Fire Service recorded 34 incidents of fire outbreaks in Kebbi State within the last three months. Alhaji Bello Zagga, the state Director of Fire Service, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Birnin Kebbi on Tues...
An Akure Senior Magistrates' Court on Tuesday ordered that a 33-year-old businessman, Samson Awonire, be remanded in prison for allegedly killing his stepmother. The accused person was said to have killed his 65-year-old stepmother, Mrs Esther Awon...
The police on Tuesday arraigned a 25-year-old furniture maker, Shola Adeboyo, of Lugbe Village, Abuja at an Abuja Senior Magistrates' Court charged with abduction. The police prosecutor, Cpl. Pascal Njoku, told the court that the offence was commit...
The police in Bayelsa have recovered the bodies of five policemen killed by unknown gunmen on the Nembe Waterway on March 1. The Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Eguavon Emokpai, said in Yenagoa on Tuesday that the remains of the five cops had been ...
Rihanna has reportedly paid £15,000 for an emergency haircut after hers was ruined in a sauna. The 'We Found Love' singer - who recently changed her red locks to blonde - apparently flew her stylist first class to London from Los A...
A policeman went berserk and shot two of his colleagues before shooting himself at Lala Village of Gombi Local Government Area of Adamawa. In a related development, another police corporal at the Trans-Amadi area of Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capi...
Six suspected secret cult members were on Tuesday arraigned before an Ebute Metta Magistrates’ Court, charged with alleged acquisition and possession of human parts. The suspected cultists were Hope Ajuzie (30), Ifeanyi Edward (60), Chigozie Bob ...