President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday arrived in Addis Ababa to attend the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa scheduled to hold from May 9 to 11. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Correspondent in Addis Ababa reports that Jonathan would attend the ...
The market indices of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) depreciated by 0.54 per cent on Wednesday as some blue chips recorded price losses. The News Agency of Nigerian (NAN) reports that the All-Share Index, which opened at 22,656.76, depreciated by 12...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission (ICPC) has called for an urgent review of the constitutional provisions relating to local governments’ funding in the country. Mr Ekpo Nta, the Acting Chairman of ICPC, made ...
Nigeria is to receive a 285 million dollars assistance from the Clean Technology Fund (CTF), a global funding agency, to support electricity supply and urban mass transportation. The fund is being provided by the CTF) under its Scalin...
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday granted bail to Dr Sani Shuaibu, charged with diverting N439 million pension funds. Shuaibu, a former Director of Pension Administration in the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation, was charged alon...
Eight persons were on Wednesday arraigned before an Abuja Magistrates’ Court on three counts of joint act, public nuisance and being in possession of counterfeit dollars. They are Joseph Adamu, 32, Uzoma Ajunbu, 27, Michael John, 36, Joseph Ibeh,...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) sent a request to Mrs Sarah Ochekpe, Minister of Agriculture and Water Resources, seeking documents on the financial allocations and public expenditure on water projects in the past five year...
The Federal Government on Wednesday summoned State Governors, Commissioners for Education and other Stakeholders to address the challenges facing the Almajiri Education Programme. The Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufai, said this while briefi...
Dr Eugene Juwah, the Executive Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), says the commission will soon begin to operate emergency call centres with three-digit codes across the country. Juwah said this on Wednesday in Abuja during the oversig...
The National Association of Micro finance Banks (NAMB) said on Wednesday in Abuja that microfinance banks improved the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 3 per cent in 2011. Alhaji Kabir Yar’adua, NAMB's Executive Secretary, said...
The FRSC says the United Nations has adopted its road safety management model into its decade of action on road safety. Mr Osita Chidoka, the Corps Marshal and Chief Executive Officer of FRSC, announced the adoption at a meeting with sector commanders ...
Gun-wielding policemen on Tuesday in Lokoja paralysed activities at the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Press Centre in an attempt to arrest hand-set traders protesting against alleged police manhandling of their members. The News Agency of Ni...
An Abuja High Court on Wednesday ordered the Inspector-General of Police and the Commissioner of Police in charge of CID, to arraign Abubakar Fugu and Bukar Fannami, unfailingly on May 18. Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf said that the action of the IGP in d...
A would-be bomber tasked by al Qaeda to blow up a commercial airliner bound for the United States was actually a double agent working for American and Saudi Arabian intelligence, according to recent reports. On Monday, reports surfaced that CIA agents ...
Reporters Without Borders (Reporters San Frontieres RSF), a France-based media body has condemned what it called ‘daily abuses suffered by Nigeria’s Journalists’ and rated the country one of the most dangerous nations in Africa for jo...