Salisu Ibrahim reports on the unprecedented mass wedding involving 100 widows in Kano last Tuesday, setting the stage for the marriage of 900 others under a strategic scheme designed by the state government to better the lots of the couples and check r...
The hope of the people of Bida Basin in Niger State to join the league of oil-producing community in Nigeria has heightened with the discovery of what looks like hydrocarbon deposits in the area. Abu Nmodu reports. The history of Niger State is just ab...
Thirty two teams started the battle for glory from September last year. Now, however, the journey has been reduced to the final two-Bayern Munich and Chelsea. Today, both clubs will battle it out for Europe’s top club football honour. Football fa...
National Sports Commission (NSC) has reaffirmed its position that Team Nigeria contingent to the forthcoming summer Olympic Games in United Kingdom would not be an all comers affair, stating that only athletes that are capable of winning medals would b...
One of the main features of the just concluded Zone D Copa Coca Cola (North Central zonal championship) held at the Area 3 mini-stadium was the array of talents on display. It was a two-day event. Nigeria is known as one of the countries that has conti...
In the wake of their elimination from the CAF Confederation Tournament, Heartland FC of Owerri have said that they will now have ample time to focus on the local league. The club is also unhappy with its performance in the league and had expressed diss...
The Defenders basketball club of Abuja is currently the least ranked team in the Savannah conference of the DStv premier basketball league table. To escape relegation, they have tried all tricks in the books of basketball including buying of new player...
Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, has disclosed that while huge amount of dollars has been in the last one year on pipeline repairs, a record volume of crude valued at $7billion has been lost to crude theft via illegal bunke...
President, Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers (NIESV), Mr. Emeka Eleh, has called on the federal government to reform the nation’s land tenure system, saying that the operating act (Land Use Act 1978) was grossly inadequate and ...
Minister of Works, Arc Mike Onolememen has said that in order to streamline the sector, the Federal Highway, as well as Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA) Acts should be reviewed. He made this disclosure when delegates from the Nigerian Society o...
To curtail the acts of terrorism by the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, Federal Government said yesterday, that it has in the last three months, deported a total of 335 illegal immigrants, repatriated about 4, 214 foreigners and refused no fewe...
In the wake of increasing kidnap activities in Delta State, no fewer than 350 kidnap cases have been recorded, 46 killed while 304 others were rescued between 2011 to date, police reports revealed. Mr. Ikechukwu Aduba, the State Commissioner of Police ...
Men of the Rivers State police command have cordoned off the premises of Braithwaite Memorial Specialist Hospital (BMH), Port Harcourt where the victims of Thursday’s commercial bus explosion at Rumuokoro roundabout, Port Harcourt, were being tre...
General TY Danjuma has commissioned the multi-million naira office complex of the Mission to Save the Helpless Centre (MITOSAH), a non-governmental organisation, in the fight to eliminate river blindness in Nigeria. The occasion took place ...
A new United States report on Narcotics, which was on Thursday presented by William R. Brownfield, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs before the US Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, has in...