The Joint Security Task Force (JTF) on Tuesday raided a house suspected to be a hideout of Boko Haram members at Hayin Hotoro in Nassarawa Local Government Area of Kano State. The JTF spokesman, Lt Ikedichi Iweha disclosed this while conducting newsmen...
Doctors in public hospitals in Lagos State on Tuesday began an indefinite strike after suspending a three day warning strike on April 13 over improved working conditions, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Announcing the resumption of the ...
President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday urged the leadership of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party to seek ways of generating funds internally to free itself from the influence of money bags. The President gave the advice in Abuja at a forum with the n...
Mr Richard Akinbosotun, the Commercial Services Manager at Tin-Can Island Container Terminal (TICT), on Tuesday said no life was lost in the Monday tanker explosion at the terminal. He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that one diesel tank...
The Senate Committee on Aviation has directed the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) to immediately set up service stations at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. The committee also directed that similar action be carried out in other air...
Otunba Olusegun Runsewe, the Director-General, Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC), says the agency will acquire a 4.9 million dollar bio-metric data capturing machine for hotel staff in Nigeria. Runsewe disclosed this at a meeting with mem...
Defying all odds, the House of Representatives on Tuesday, began the clause by clause consideration of the Subsidy Probe report which was laid on the floor of the House last Thursday but bowed to pressure, giving a lifeline of an additional two weeks t...
The Niger State Commissioner for Health, Dr Ibrahim Sule, on Tuesday announced the discovery of one wild polio virus in the state after three years of virus-free status. He, however, described the discovery as `imported polio.'' Sule told newsm...
Malam sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Central Bank Governor, has attributed the challenges witnessed with electronic transfer on cash less policy to low bandwidth by the telecom operators. Sanusi said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on...
South Sudan President Salva Kiir told his Chinese counterpart of Tuesday that Sudan had declared war on his newly-independent country, following weeks of border fighting between the two countries. ``It (this visit) comes at a very critical moment for t...
The re-occurring cases of foot and mouth diseases in cattle is affecting cattle grazers in Fufore Local Government Area of Adamawa, an official said. Mr John Na’imu, a Director of Agriculture and Veterinary Department in Fufore Local Government C...
The Chairman of the Kwara chapter of ALGON, Dr Adebayo Ishola, says the call for the scrapping of local government administration in Nigeria is ``a myopic view.’’ Ishola, who is also the chairman of Ilorin South Local Government Area of Kwa...
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday refused to stay further proceedings in the suit filed by the EFCC against a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode. The 47-count charge levelled against Fani-Kayode by the Economic and Financial Cri...
The partners leading the efforts to control measles on Tuesday announced a new global strategy aimed at reducing measles deaths and `congenital rubella syndrome' to zero. According to a joint statement made available to PANA in New York, the announ...
The concluding appeal of the verdict of a San Francisco jury that absolved Chevron Corporation of any blame for the shootings of Nigerian villagers who occupied an offshore barge in 1998 has been turned down by the United States Supreme Court. This put...