President Barack Obama has surged ahead in national and swing state polls after the Democratic convention and is raising more cash than Mitt Romney for the first time in four months. The Romney campaign reaction yesterday was to blame the liberal media...
A civil society group, National Anti-Terrorism and Peace Network (NATPW), has accused the minister of interior and supervising head of Nigeria’s internal security, of alleged involvement in weapons deals. The group claims it ha...
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Ibrahim Lamorde, has lamented that some banks hamper its investigations on fraud by refusing to tender useful details regarding customers being prosecuted for graft by the commission. ...
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has stated that there are an estimated 40 to 45million illiterate persons in Nigeria. UNESCO Country Representative Dr Joseph Ngu made this revelation at the Roundtable on &l...
Shuaibu Suleiman is the acting Director-General, Directorate of Technical Cooperation in Africa (DTCA). In this chat with Ruth Yamta, he speaks about the mandate of DTCA and the volume of Nigeria’s assistance to other African countries. Can you g...
On her best behaviour but unable to dominate an opponent seven years her junior, Williams showed all her great fighting qualities to survive a ferocious comeback from Azarenka and seal victory after more than two and a quarter hours to become the oldes...
Andy Murray beat defending champion Novak Djokovic in five sets to win the US Open, becoming the first British man to win a Grand Slam tennis event in 76 years. Murray, 25, the No. 3 seed from Scotland, topped second- seeded Djokovic 7-6 (12-10), 7-5, ...
Joseph Yobo, Mikel Obi and Yakubu Aiyegbeni are Nigeria’s biggest earners as they each pocket in excess of two million Euros a year. MTNFootball.com has again scooped that another top Nigerian earner in football is Spartak Moscow striker Emmanuel...
To ensure that they excel at the 18th National Sports Festival tagged Eko 2012, the Lagos State hockey team has intensified its training ahead of the tournament in November. With the conclusion of a two-day championship, the Technical Director o...
Two-time World Champion, Nigel Richards of New Zealand and former world champion, Pakorn Nemitrmansuk of Thailand are among the top players expected to compete at this year’s Godswill Akpabio International Scrabble Classics, coming up in Uy...
Jide Shiwoku, Lawrence Ojo and Funlola Oni scored a goal each to give Standard Chartered Bank the biggest win of the weekend and the best scoring side of the 2012 Nigeria Bankers Game which entered week two at the University of Lagos Sports Complex. St...
To spell out the limits of any proposition is not to give a dog a bad name, but a way of expanding the future outcome of an enterprise. PDP emerged after the elections of 1999 with a huge, seemingly undeflatable balloon of national goodwill. Meanwhile,...
Stakeholders are convening a National Information Security Conference (NgSecure 2012) on October 11 and 12, at the International conference Centre in Abuja on to design strategies to ensure greater cyber security. The forum is being put tog...
More floods have hit Northern and Central Taraba, ravaging communities on the banks of River Benue. The Chairman of Ardo-Kola Local Government,Dr Jalo Buba, told the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) in Sunkani on Monday. He said more than 3,000 hectares of ...
The Kano State Branch of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA)on Monday threatened to go on strike if the State Government did not implement the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure (CONMESS) for its members. This is contained in a statement signed b...