The long queues of vehicles reported at filling stations in Ife and Modakeke towns in Osun due to scarcity of petroleum products have reduced drastically on Friday A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), who visited some of sta...
The UN human rights chief called on Georgia on Friday to prosecute prison officers caughton videos torturing and raping inmates, a scandal that has broken out a week before a national election. Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said a...
The Nigerian Navy has described Cdr. Datoru Abi-Kalio, who died in the DANA air crash of June 3 in Lagos, as a dedicated naval officer and a shining star. Cdr. Henry Babalola, Command Operations Officer, Western Naval Command, Apapa, said this on ...
The National Chairman, All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Dr Obgbonnaya Onu, on Friday received the Certificate of Incorporation for the United States of America Chapter of the party in New Jersey, U.S. The document was presented to him by t...
The police in Lagos on Friday arraigned two drivers, who allegedly conspired and stole a Kia Sportage jeep worth N5.5 million from where it was parked. Patrick Onyeze and James Imeh, aged 35 and 31 years respectively, were charged along with one Sunday...
The Zambian government is to give former first lady, Betty Kaunda, a state funeral just as the country declared a three-day national mourning in her honour from Friday. ``Mama” Betty Kaunda who passed away on Wednesday, while visit...
A South African Magistrates’ Court on Friday sentenced one Andries Sibiya, to life imprisonment on anine-count charge for raping his daughter. The court heard that Sibiya started sleeping with his daughter from the age of thirteen and that she ga...
Some prominent senators have warned that President Jonathan will be at the risk of impeachment if he continues to ignore resolutions passed by the National Assembly. Senator Uche Chukwumerije (PDP, Abia), apparently worried over the executive’s i...
Richard Branson, the chairman of Virgin Atlantic, reportedly swore never to do business in Nigeria again because Nigerian politicians are “very insane” and “dream killers”. The British billionaire has not looked back since he mo...
International conglomerate, Stallion Group, has won a major award from Hyundai Motor Company, Korea, in recognition of its excellent performance in Nigeria. Hyundai Motor Company honoured its Exclusive Nigerian distributor Hyundai Motors Nigeria Limite...
The 36 state governors have resolved to return to the Supreme Court over their dispute with the federal government on deductions from the excess crude account. They also threw their weight behind the Good Governance tours with the aim of showcasing the...
The International Labour Organisation (ILO), has declared that the launch of ILO- Start and Improve your Business (SIYB), in Nigeria is a giant stride which will be highly beneficial to the country as it will assist in job creation, thereby reducing yo...
Maritime workers have raised alarm over the impunity with some shipping companies and multinationals that specialize in anchoring and operating their vessels off-shore/midstream in naked contravention of the given conditions governing off-shore mid str...
Worried about the flooding of residential areas which left many displaced, Kaduna State Governor, Sir Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, has called for the dredging of River Kaduna to avert future ocurrence. Yakowa made the call yesterday in Kaduna after an aeria...
Second Republic President, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, has called for prayers for peace in the country between Moslems and Christians. Shagari made the call yesterday when he received Sheikh Kabiru Gomber, who paid him a courtesy visit at his res...