The Kwara State Muslim Welfare Board said on Tuesday that 82 prospective pilgrims from the state failed to perform this year's Hajj due to non issuance of visas by the Saudi authorities. Hajia Fatima Jimoh, the Executive Secretary of the boar...
President Goodluck Jonathan has requested the Senate’s approval of N161.6 billion as fuel subsidy under a supplementary budget for 2012. The request was contained in a letter he sent to the senate and read by S...
The Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Ayotunde Phillips, on Tuesday released a 75-year-old prisoner, Job Meleb, and 45 other inmates from the Ikoyi Prisons in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that Phillips had on Sept. 18 released 233 ...
Turnover of shares traded on the Nigerian Stock Exchange in November dropped by 4.19 billion shares or 43.24 per cent, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. A total of 5.50 billion shares worth N43.39 billion were traded in November ag...
Mr Chris Olakpe, the new Commissioner of Police in Plateau on Tuesday assumed duty with a call for dialogue between striking workers and the state government to end the impasse. Olakpe, who took over the command on Monday, was greeted on assu...
The Nigeria Premier League (NPL) Board on Monday suspended its Chairman, Victor Baribote, to enable the three-man committee investigating the crisis between the board and club owners complete its assignment. The suspension is contained in...
Following the escape from arrest, of the former Kogi State governor, Abubakar Audu, by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on December 11, 2012, the Commission has concluded plans to declare him wanted. The former governor...
The Registrar of the National Examinations Council (NECO), Prof. Promise Okpala, said on Tuesday in Abuja that staff transfers in the establishment were punitive but a normal practice in the council. Okpala was speaking against&nbs...
The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) says it sealed 51 companies in the last three months for offences relating to tax evasion. Mrs Folasade Coker-Afolayan, the Head of Distrain Unit of LIRS, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeri...
President Goodluck Jonathan has made a passionate appeal to the United States government to help the federal government in the bid to tackle the security morass the country is enmeshed in, following the gory activities of the Islamic extremist gr...
The House of Representatives Committee on Information on Tuesday in Abuja urged the media to boost Nigeria’s anti-corruption campaign through effective use of the Freedom of Information Act (FOI). The committee's Chairman, Alhaji Buba Jibril,...
The Nasarawa State House of Assembly on Tuesday withdrew its earlier threat to impeach Gov. Tanko Al-Makura over the rising wave of insecurity in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the l...
Gerd Muller must be sick of the sight of Lionel Messi. For the second time in the space of six months he has witnessed the diminutive attacker break one of his long-standing records. By the end of the 2011-12 season the 25-year-old had surpassed the pr...
The 7th Annual Congress of the Nigeria Premier League will hold today in Abuja after the Nigeria Football Federation moved it from Kano. The Congress will now up from 10 am at a yet to be announced venue. Acting Executive Secretary who confirmed this i...
The highly anticipated 2012 Kaduna international Polo Tournament galloped off Sunday December 9 at the famous Ahmadu Yakubu Polo Club House, Murtala Mohammed Sports Complex, Kaduna; With 32 teams from various polo clubs in Nigeria on parade. This year&...