No fewer than 30 PHCN wooden and concrete poles were destroyed by windstorm in Makurdi on Friday night. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the PHCN poles were destroyed by the windstorm that was preceded by rain, which only lasted 30 minutes...
The controversies from Members of the National Assembly over the proposal to establish the Nigerian Diaspora Commission and to ensure Diaspora Voting Rights for Nigerians living abroad may have been laid to rest as officials used the just concluded ann...
Fatima Hassan, a 44 year old Nigerian woman who was also the co-owner of a Detroit-area physical therapy company has been sentenced to 48 months in prison for her leading role in a more than $1.9 million Medicare fraud scheme, the Department of Justice...
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg updated his status to 'married' on Saturday afternoon. Mr Zuckerberg and 27-year-old Priscilla Chan tied the knot at a small ceremony at his home in Palo Alto, California, capping a busy week for the cou...
Sen. Sahabi Ya’u, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Land Transport, said on Sunday that the Western Rail Line would be fully operational before the end of the year. The rail line is expected to connect Lagos, Ibadan, Jebba and Kaduna to Kano, whi...
The House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts has decried inadequate funding of the office of the Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF). Chairman of the committee, Rep. Solomon Adeola (ACN-Lagos), said in Abuja on Sunday that corruptio...
The former presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Prof. Peter Nwangwu, says the Immunity Clause in the 1999 Constitution should be removed because ``it has done more harm than good''. Nwangwu told the News Agency of Ni...
Four persons were injured early on Sunday morning at the Amike-Aba area of Abakaliki following a clash between a local vigilance group and jubilant fans of Chelsea FC of England. The fans were celebrating Chelsea’s first-ever Union of European Fo...
It’s a painful situation, seeing your friend being mistreated by her man and yet she can’t see it because the “love bug” has blinded her. That’s why it’s unsettling to see a good friend in a bad-dating situation. Lik...
Alhaji Umaru Dikko, a key voice of the northern political establishment was transport minister under the Shehu Shagari presidency in the Second Republic. Off the political radar for some time now, the astute politician has signaled his intention to ret...
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...