The Minister of Environment, Hadiza Ibrahim Mailafia has called on the Government of Japan for assistance in the areas of renewable energy, capacity building and proper procedures that would help the country get proper environmental assessment of proje...
Parents whose wards distinguished themselves in the just concluded Copa Coca Cola north zonal championship has applauded the sponsorship of the championship by Nigerian Bottling Company, the maker of coca cola brand. They described the annual grassroot...
African Footballer of the Year Perpetua Nkwocha will lead three foreign pros for an African Women’s Championship qualifier versus Zimbabwe. MTNFootball.com can report that Perpetua Nkwocha, Onome Ebi and Rita Chikwelu are the only three foreign-b...
After capturing the Madrid Open title and knowing he will climb back above Rafa Nadal to number two in the world, Roger Federer has set his sights on reclaiming the top ranking. The resurgent 30-year-old Swiss came from a set down to beat Tomas Berdych...
Robin van Persie will hold crunch contract talks with Arsenal tomorrow, Goal.com revealed. A meeting has been scheduled in London at a neutral location for Van Persie’s camp to begin face-to-face negotiations with senior club officials, including...
The ECOWAS says it will deploy 600 military and police contingent to Guinea Bissau to address the political crisis in the country. Mrs Salamatu Suleiman, the ECOWAS Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security, disclosed this in an interview ...
Minister of National Planning, Dr Shamsuddeen Usman has said that 17 States’ Statistical Agencies have been linked to the National Data Centre. Usman made this known in Abuja on Monday at a Ministerial Platform in commemoration of Democracy...
Senator Ike Ekweremadu, Speaker of the ECOWAS Parliament, has called on the member-states in the sub-region to intensify efforts at tackling the resurgence of coups and terror in the area. Ekweremadu said this at the First Ordinary Session (2012) of th...
The police in Ekiti State on Monday arrested 19 students of All Souls’ Anglican Grammar School, Ado Ekiti, for alleged involvement in cult activities . Mr Victor Babayemi, the Police Public Relations Officer of the command, said the student...
Sen. Abdullahi Adamu, the Chairman of the National Agricultural Foundation of Nigeria (NAFN) has expressed regret over the low turn out of states at the annual National Agricultural Show. Adamu said this on Monday in Abuja at the stakeholders' meet...
The National Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) on Monday in Ibadan suspended its one-week nationwide strike with effect from Tuesday. Felix Faniran, the Acting National Chairman of JOHESU, announced the suspension at a press c...
A High Court in Okene, Kogi, on Monday ordered the immediate reinstatement of 346 workers under the state civil service who were sacked after a staff audit in 2009. Justice Sunday Otu in his judgement declared that the workers were wrongly sacked, addi...
Ahead of its May 16 re-launch of operations on the Lagos-London route, Air Nigeria on Sunday night received a new Airbus A330-200 which arrived the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja. The aircraft, which was wet-leased from Egypt Air, arrive...
Mr Samson Mafuyai, President of the Plateau State Chapter of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), has rejected a recent declaration by Gov. Jonah Jang that the state’s Local Government system is ``rotten’’. ``Such ...
The Federal Government has renewed its commitment to improving the lives of women, children and persons with disabilities. The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajiya Zainab Maina, made the statement in her presentation at the minister...