Some of the most prominent northerners stormed the seat of the federal government last night to present a list of demands to President Goodluck Jonathan. Under the umbrella of the Northern Elders Forum, the visitors demanded implementation of recommend...
Of the 5,172,979 customers captured in the records of the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI), only 2,893,701 or 55.94 per cent are metered. Out of the number only 2,434,541 or 8.42 per cent of the total households in Nigeria are currently bein...
Former Liberian president Charles Taylor has been sentenced to 50 years in prison by the International Criminal Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands. Taylor, 64, was convicted in April of war crimes and crimes against humanity for aiding and abet...
Global Witness yesterday stated that explanations made by Shell and ENI about payments made for a controversial oil deal in Nigeria are no longer sufficient, but rather, they must immediately come clean with more information about the deal. The call co...
The National Teachers Institute (NTI) has described as “unfounded” the accusation levelled against it which claimed that the institute short-changed teachers by paying them N2, 500 each, instead of the budgeted N14, 000. The teachers, under...
Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega, has acknowledged that the commission has not lived up to the expectation of Nigerian electorate. He stated this during the oversight visit of Senate Committee o...
The decision of President Goodluck Jonathan to rename the University of Lagos (UNILAG) after the late democracy martyr, Chief Moshood Kashimawo Abiola, has been applauded as a positive step but government was advised to take legislative steps to effect...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday formally launched the energy saving bulbs meant to reduce the cost of energy, with a note of warning that it should not be misinterpreted to mean that it was an alternative to the inability of government to provide...
A member of the House of Representatives in Ondo State, Mr Ifedayo Abegunde, has been removed from his seat by a Federal High Court sitting in Akure. Abegunde, who represents Akure North/Akure South Federal Constituency, was ordered to vacate his seat ...
Unknown gunmen yesterday launched another attack on a bakery in Udiya area of Mafa Local Government Area of Borno State, killing no fewer than six persons and wounding others. An eyewitness, also a baker, who spoke to British Broadcasting Corpora...
Contrary to the belief of the United States Department of Justice, Former Ambassador of the country to Nigeria, Ambassador John Campbell has said that Boko Haram, an Islamic Sect terrorising the Northern parts of Nigeria was different from Foreign Terr...
No fewer than five trucks loaded with thugs yesterday stormed the national headquarters of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in Abuja. The thugs were mobilised by some aggrieved members of the party who were led by one Emeka believed to be work...
A Nigerian, Mr. Ifeanyi Chuks Iheama, who used a forged passport to obtain a job with the Health and Care NHS in Worcester, United Kingdom was on Tuesday sentenced to 12 months imprisonment at Hereford Crown Court. Ifeanyi Chuks Iheama, aged 38, arrive...
The Edo Consultative Forum (ECF) has commended the federal government for re-naming University of Lagos in honour of the late M.K.O. Abiola but stressed that the manner with which it was carried out was faulty. In a statement signed by its direct...
Following the continued protest of students at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), now known as Moshood Abiola University (MAUNI), the senate of the school, yesterday, ordered the closure of the institution for two weeks. The senate said the decision was...