Managing Director of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, Umar Abubakar, says the fund has put in place the necessary framework to provide succor to Nigerian workers. But in this interview with Soni Daniel and Binta Abudulazeez Idris, the MD says t...
Senior police officers recently promoted by the Police Service Commission (PSC), were yesterday given a mandate to revamp the image of the police and restore the confidence the public reposed in the institution. The acting inspector-general of police, ...
In a bid to inculcate the habit of safety in Nigerian children, the federal government has approved the teaching of road safety as a course of study in secondary schools in Nigeria. With the approval, road safety study is now part of the junior and sen...
Despite the uproar over the abuse of Benylin cough syrup, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), may not be in a hurry to pronounce the cough syrup that contains codeine, a prescription drug. This line of action, acc...
A Nigerian teenager, Victoria Osoteku, has been convicted of manslaughter in London. She was said to be at the heart of the attack at Victoria station in London, which resulted in Sofyen Belamouadden being knifed in front of horrified commuters. Accord...
The Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Electoral Matters, Jerry Manwe, says the proposal that the National Judicial Council (NJC) be given the role of appointing the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) wo...
The federal government is set to fight the dearth of professionals, especially teachers in the education sector due to the brain drain syndrome which has affected the country and in effect has resulted to the exodus for greener pastures. This was revea...
Arik Air said it was temporarily suspending all flight operations between Lagos, Nigeria and Johannesburg, South Africa with immediate effect. The decision to suspend the daily B737-800 service between the two financial hubs was taken due to the ongoin...
It was a black Friday at the Tincan Island Port yesterday as two clearing agents lost their lives and several vehicles destroyed over a misunderstanding resulting from a minor car brush. According to an eye-witness report, the two unidentified agents w...
A socio-cultural organisation, Benue Youths in Diaspora Association has hailed the Governorship Election Tribunal in Benue State over what it called a landmark judgement in the petitions against Governor Gabriel Suswam. Speaking to newsmen in Abuja yes...
The Supreme Court, in two separate judgements, yesterday upheld the elections of Governors Rochas Okorocha of Imo State and that of Delta, Emmanuel Uduaghan in the April 26 gubernatorial polls. Justice Sylvester Ngwuta and Justice Tanko Mohammed, who d...
Richard Ayoade was born in 1977 to a Nigerian father and Norwegian mother and was educated at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. Other than being an English comedian and actor, he has also tried a hand in music-related film directing. While at Cam...
The remains of the late Biafran leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, were yesterday interred in his family compound in Umudim Nnewi, Anambra State at about 2pm, amidst pomp and ceremony, marking the end of his jo...
Three Boko Haram members yesterday lost their lives when a bomb exploded at a compound suspected to be used as a bomb-making factory in Kaleri Ward, London Chiki Area of Maiduguri Metropolitan Council of Borno State. Residents of the area, which is adj...
A day after militants attacked a Marine Police checkpoint in Bayelsa and killed four soldiers and four policemen; the Joint Task Force has engaged local divers to search for the corpses of the missing officers and men. This is coming on the heels of th...