The National Economic Council on Thursday directed the Federal and State Governments to make specific laws criminalising bunkering and pipeline vandalism to save the nation from revenue loss. The council made the decision at its meeting presided over b...
The Director-General, NAFDAC, Dr Paul Orhii, has expressed happiness over the WHO endorsement of the Integrated Medical Industry in Rivers, which produces syringes and other medical products. Orhii made the remark on Thursday at Rumuosi, near Port Harc...
The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu on Thursday restated Federal Government’s increased commitment towards enhanced healthcare delivery in the country. Chukwu made this known in Abuja at the 67th meeting of the Association of Chief Exe...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), says the suspension of some programmes at University of Abuja is taken to sanitise the sector. Prof. Ukachukwu Awuzie, the National President of ASUU told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Thu...
The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) said on Thursday in Abuja that its officers have been deployed to various parts of the country for effective traffic management and rescue operation during Easter celebration. A statement signed by Mr Nse...
The National Economic Council (NEC) says the federal and state governments have reached an out-of-court settlement of the issue of the legality of the Excess Crude Account. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the 36 state governments last yea...
The UN Security Council on Thursday adopted a presidential statement to support April 10 deadline put forward by Kofi Annan, the UN and Arab League joint special envoy for Syria to end the crisis in the Middle East. “The Security Council calls on...
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) in Sokoto State says it has deployed 700 personnel to churches to ensure peaceful Easter celebrations. Alhaji Aminu Kofar Soro, the state Commandant of NSCDC, told the newsmen that anti-bomb disposal...
The UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon on Thursday expressed concern that bloodshed continued in Syria in spite of the government’s acceptance of proposals by the UN-Arab Leagues Special Envoy, Kofi Annan. Addressing the General ...
An Abuja High Court on Thursday granted bail to three account staff of the Federal Civil Service Commission. The accused persons - HassanTukur, Babatunde Abisuga and Mohammed Ndakupe – were arraigned by the EFCC on a 12-count charge. The commissi...
A former U.S. Marine testifying in a sex abuse case rocking the Philadelphia Roman Catholic Archdiocese recalled the day he became deathly afraid of a priest he said had been a family friend but molested him as a teenager. The former Marine said Rev. J...
Rival militias whose clashes in western Libya have killed at least 18 people stopped fighting on Thursday, after government sent in troops to impose a ceasefire, an army official said. Reuters reporters in the town of Zuwara said there was no sig...
A group of former World Bank officials on Wednesday endorsed Africa’s candidate to lead the Bank, Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. In an open letter, 39 former managers and economists called on the Bank’s executive board to ma...
Suspected Islamists have killed seven people in a market in northern restive city of Maiduguri in the latest deadly attacks in the region, police said Thursday. “There was an attack yesterday afternoon at Monday market. Some gunmen suspected to b...
President Hugo Chavez returned home to Venezuela on Wednesday after his latest session of cancer treatment in Cuba, as he aims to fight off the illness and win a new six-year term in an October election. The 57-year-old socialist leader, walking unaide...