The Senate, smarting from the scandals trailing the public hearing by the House of Representatives Committee on Capital Market, said its investigation of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) was not meant to generate money for committee members....
The Joint Security Task-Force (JTF) has confirmed the death of two suspected Boko Haram members from an explosion in their own car during an operation in Kano. The Brigade Commander of the 3 Brigade, Nigerian Army, Kano, Brig-Gen Iliyasu Abbah disclose...
Alhaji Bamanga Tukur has been named the new national chairman of the PDP, following the withdrawal of 10 other aspirants from the race. However, more than 4,500 delegates from 36 states and FCT voted in Abuja on Saturday to affirm his position as the n...
The World Bank announced Friday three candidates to succeed outgoing president Robert Zoellick, one nominated by the United States and two others from developing countries. The candidates were identified as Jim Yong Kim, a US national and president of ...
Nigeria's bid for the position of the World Bank president on Friday received a boost as South Africa and Angola endorsed the candidature of Nigeria's Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, for the job. The South African Finance Minister,...
Aliero announced his defection along with the leadership of CPCin Kebbi during the launch of the PDP gubernatorial campaign in the state by President Goodluck at Halliru Abdu Stadium in Birnin Kebbi on Thursday. Aliero, who was accompanied...
Despite all efforts by host governor Isa Yuguda and some other governors of the North-East geo-political zone, delegates in Bauchi yesterday voted for Dr. Musa Babayo, the immediate past national secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as their...
The conditions of trade as stipulated under the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) have been described as too stringent and would further impoverish the African continent by stifling economic growth and development. Former governor of the Central B...
Nine gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram sect were yesterday killed by soldiers in a gun duel at Tudun Wada Dakadai town in Tudun Wada local government area of Kano State. The Joint Task Force (JTF) which carried out the operation has recovere...
The minister of petroleum resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, has been vindicated by a Vienna-based Regional Court for Criminal Matters over an alleged purchase of a 20 million euro mansion in the Austrian capital last November. Slamming the Heute ...
Indications emerged yesterday that a fresh massive fraud of an alleged N18billion illegal transactions had been unearthed by the Pension Reform Task Force at the Police Pension Office (PPO). A source close to the ministerial taskforce also confided in ...
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says 1,503,931 candidates will write this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) on March 24. Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, stated this while briefing newsmen on Tues...
The suspected mastermind of the abduction of the British and Italian nationals Abu Mohammed has died in custody of the SSS. Officials of the SSS told journalists on Wednesday that Mohammed died from injuries he sustained during a raid of his hideout at...
Four persons including a commercial sex worker were Monday shot dead in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, following renewed clash between two rival cult groups based in the Niger Delta University (NDU), Amassoma in Southern Ijaw Local Council area of...
A suicide car bomber attacked a Catholic church Sunday in the middle of Mass, killing at least 10 people in the latest violence targeting a church in a central Nigerian city plagued by unrest, a state official said. The bomb detonated as worshippers at...