Nigerian naira eased further against the U.S. dollar on the interbank on Wednesday despite the central bank's direct intervention to calm the market and an increase in supply of the greenback at its bi-weekly foreign exchange auction. The naira end...
The National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Wednesday impounded expired confectionery worth more than N500,000 in Onitsha, Anambra. Mr Benson Kine, Deputy Director, NAFDAC Special Zonal Office, Onitsha, said that the prod...
The nation’s economy is sound and in stable condition, the Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, declared in Abuja on Wednesday. Maku made the declaration after the weekly meeting of the Federal Executive Council when he debunked insinuation...
The Kwara Government and College of Agriculture and Life Sciences of Cornell University, New York, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Kwara State Agricultural Modernisation Master Plan. According to Governor Ahmed at the occasion which ...
Another crisis has hit the fold of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State with the decision of the Councilors from the home council of the State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson, the Sagbama Local Government Council to commence impeachment p...
Bombers struck at Shi'ite pilgrims celebrating a religious festival in Baghdad and across Iraq on Wednesday, killing more than 70 people. The attack is in one of the bloodiest days since the last U.S. troops withdrew from the country in December. T...
A delegation from the International Criminal Court (ICC) was prevented on Tuesday from seeing two colleagues being held in a provincial Libyan jail because a local militia closed roads into the town. Australian lawyer Melinda Taylor and Lebanese-born i...
The PDP in Edo has threatened to sue Gov. Adams Oshiomhole over alleged false accusation on the death of his Principal Private Secretary, Mr Olaitan Oyerinde. The party issued the threat via a statement signed by its Publicity Secretary, Mr Mathew Orho...
UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) is to spend 36 million pounds (about N9 billion) to train Nigerian teachers within the next six years. DFID’s Senior Education Adviser, Ms. Barbara Payne, made this known on Tuesday in Ab...
The Alakenne of Ikenne, Oba Adeyinka Onakade, was on Monday night attacked by gunmen suspected to be assassins. The traditional ruler was attacked alongside his lawyer, Omosanya Solaja, in his palace in Ikenne, Ogun. Solaja, a former member of Ogun Hou...
Some assailants, believed to be cultists, on Sunday in Abeokuta killed an official of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC). The NSCDC official, Sheriff Elegbede, an inspector, was allegedly hacked to death with machetes and axes. The N...
The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) on Tuesday said that it had suspended the operations of Air Nigeria owing to the strike embarked upon by its engineers and pilots over poor welfare package. Mr Sam Adurogboye, the NCAA’s General Manager...
Brig.-Gen. Nnamdi Okorie-Affia, Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), has decried the incessant request for posting of corps members to places of their choice. Okorie-Affia's view is contained in a press statement signed by M...
The Northern States Governors Forum (NSGF) has paid tribute to former Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, who will clocks 70 years on Wednesday, describing him as ``father of the nation’s democracy''. The forum Chairman ...
Telecommunication operators in Nigeria registered 80 per cent of SIM cards as at March 31, Mr Shina Badaru, President, Joint Action Committee on Information and Communication Awareness and Development (JACITAD) has said. Badaru disclosed this on Tuesda...