Eighteen persons, including eight soldiers were reportedly killed on Monday night, in a raid on three commercials banks in Auchi, the administrative headquarters of Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State. LEADERSHIP gathered that th...
A total of 256.13 million shares worth N2.1 billion were traded in 4,438 deals on the Nigerian Stock Exchange on Tuesday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that this was against the 237.17 million shares worth N1.6 billion exchanged in 3,182 dea...
President Jacob Zuma of South Africa has congratulated President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone on his re-election. Zuma in a statement on Tuesday commended the people of Sierra Leone for their enthusiasm and their turnout to exercise for their fran...
Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), on Tuesday called for improvement of the nation’s infrastructure for sustainable economic growth. Sanusi made the call at the Second Annual Capital Market Committee meeting orga...
President Goodluck Jonathan has directed the Director General of the Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE) Mrs. Bolanle Onogoruwa to vacate office. Accordingly, he ordered her to handover to Mr. Benjamin Ezra Dikki who is the most senior Director in the ...
Prof Dora Akunyili, Chairman, North-East Presidential sub-Committee on Flood and Rehabilitation, said on Tuesday that the Federal Government did not neglect the victims of flood disaster in Bauchi State. Akunyili dispelled the insinuations in Dugu...
The Director-General of the Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE) Mrs. Bolanle Onagoruwa has been relieved of her appointment. A statement issued by the Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media, Malam Umar Sani, on Tuesday in Abuja, said h...
Gov. Theodore Orji of Abia on Tuesday launched the rehabilitation and construction 16 road projects in Aba as part of his promise to give the city a face-lift. The roads are: Ngwa Road, Azikiwe, Cemetery, Nwala by Faulks, Brass by Aba-Owerri Jubil...
The violent crises in Syria, Gaza and Mali show how important it is for different religions to work together to promote understanding rather than sow hatred, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said on Monday. Addressing the opening of a new Saudi-backed ...
The Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) said it would confer honorary fellowship on former President Olusegun Obasanjo and two others for their contributions to the growth of Information Technology (IT) in Nigeria. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports...
The PDP National Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, said on Tuesday that the party would collaborate with African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa to tackle continental and global challenges. Tukur said this when he led a delegation of the ANC to a...
President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the conferment of Nigerian National Order of Merit Award on two distinguished Nigerians for 2012. A statement on Tuesday in Abuja, signed by Mr Adamu Mu`azu, Secretary, Nigerian National Meri...
A global groundswell against Boko Haram terrorists’ activities is building as the International Criminal Court has now decided through the Office of the Prosecutor, OTP, to probe what is suspected to be crimes against humanity committed by the te...
The Lagos State governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola has approved the constitution of a new Governing Council for the Lagos State University (LASU). Mr Adesegun Ogunlewe, the state`s Head of Service, announced the approval of the 12- man council in a stateme...
Forensic experts took samples from Yasser Arafat's buried corpse in the West Bank on Tuesday, trying to determine if he was murdered by Israeli agents using the hard-to-trace radioactive poison, Polonium. Palestinians witnessed the funeral of their...