Arrangements for the Dr. Alex Ekwueme under -18 National Junior Tennis Championship have reached advanced stage even as the competition is expected to kick off at Enugu Sports Club from 8th to 12th October, 2012. Briefing newsmen on the upcoming ...
National U-17 side, Flamingoes were on Saturday held by Canada in a pulsating 1-1 draw at the Tofig Bahramov Stadium. Though the team spurned a lot of scoring chances, but only got a goal through Ihezuo’s volley to equalize on a goal which earlie...
Cup holders, Heartland have placed 14 players on the transfer market while they retained 21. Heartland finished eighth on the log on 51 points from 36 matches. General Manager of the Naze Millionaires, Fan Ndubuoke said the players, who have been asked...
The Coordinator, Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC), Arch. Reuben Okoya has made good his threat to sanction contractors who fail to live up to the terms of their contracts, by terminating the street light maintenance contract of CON Engineer...
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Mariam Aloma-Mukhtar will, on Wednesday, inaugurate Kumai Bayang Akaahs, and Bayelsa State-born Stanley Shinko Alagoa as Supreme Court justices. Justice Akaahs replaced the suspended Court of Appeal president, Justic...
The Niger State Commissioner for Education, Mrs Susan Gana, has said that 17, 550 senior secondary school students in the state have failed their 2011/2012 promotion examinations. Gana, who revealed this at a press briefing in Minna on Saturday, said t...
The Vice President of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Mr Issa Aremu, has called on the federal government to ensure a functional rail and energy sectors in order to boost the nation’s economy. Aremu, who made the call in Ilorin while speaking with...
The Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM) on Sunday in Abuja urged the Federal Government to urgently resuscitate the refineries to solve petroleum products scarcity. Dr Michael Olawale-Cole, President of the institute, made the call at a thanksgiving...
A suicide bomber on Sunday in Bauchi detonated an explosive device at the gate of St. John’s Catholic Church, Bauchi, killing himself and three worshippers. The Chairman of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Bauchi State chapter, Rev. Lawi P...
The Kebbi Government has invested the sum of N1.6 billion in the IFAD-assisted Community-Based Agricultural and Rural Development Programme (CBARDP) in the last three years, an officer has said. The programme is being financed by the International Fund...
The Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) has postponed the opening of financial bids for the sale of electricity distribution companies, earlier scheduled for Oct. 10 to Oct. 16 A statement issued by BPE in Abuja, said the postponement was to give bidder...
Ondo State Government spent N2.5 billion on rural electrification projects in the last three and a half years, Mr. Sola Akinsanmi, Chairman, Ondo State Electricity Board, said. Akinsanmi told newsmen in Akure that the current state administration...
An Ivorian tribunal in Abidjan on Friday struck out a case against four suspected Nigerian human traffickers and operators of a child prostitution ring, which parades Nigerian teenagers, for lack of evidence. The suspects were Blessing Uvitare, 38, Ble...
The Niger Government is discussing with United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the Bank of Industry to establish a Shea butter factory, an official has said. Alhaji Ahmed Kontagora, Director General, Niger State Export Promotion...
Although the Cross-River Government claimed it spent N13 billion on the rehabilitation of federal roads in the last seven years, it might not get refunds because it failed to follow guidelines. Mr Chinwuba Agbara, Federal Controller of Works in C...