The Kano Emirate Council is now in a fix over what to do in the case of one of its four kingmakers, the Sarkin Dawaki Mai Tuta, Alhaji Aminu Dan’Agundi, whose dismissal from the council was recently reversed by a Kano St...
A member of the family of late Chief MKO Abiola, acclaimed winner of the annulled June 12, 1993, presidential election, Alhaji Olalekan Yushau Abiola, has lamented that in spite of the sacrifices made by the family to entrench democracy in the country,...
As state governors in the country mark their quarterly sensitisation campaign on the eradication of poliomyelitis across the country, the Lagos state governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, yesterday, urged his counterparts in other states to give priority to...
The Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) has threatened to mobilise its members against state governors across the country, accusing them of strangulating the lower tier of government of funds. NULGE national president, Comrade Ibrahim K...
A 400-level student of English Department, Faculty of Arts, Ahmadu Bello University(ABU), Zaria, Gladys Onwosureye, was on Wednesday night bathed with concentrated acid by her boyfriend, James popularly known as Jimmy, a graduate of Sociology from the ...
The West African Examination Council, (WAEC) yesterday released results of the May/June 2011 West African Senior School Certificate Examination, (WASSCE) with an abysmal 30 per cent of the candidates making credits in both English and Mathematics. Deta...
The managing director of Enterprise Bank Limited, Mr Ahmed Kuru assumed duty officially at the bank’s head office in Lagos yesterday. This brings to two, the number of managing directors that have assumed duties at their new station...
Contrary to the report of the panel set up by the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) which indicted the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu, and two lawyers, Yahaya Mahmood and Alfred Agu, the National Judicial Council (NJC) yester...
The Anambra State government and the Family of Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu- Ojukwu have dispelled rumours that made the rounds yesterday that the Ikemba Nnewi had passed on insisting that the Biafran warlord was very much alive. Several people, includin...
The federal government hinted yesterday that it has doled out a whooping sum of N4.1 trillion to be used under the National Strategic Health Plan to boost the health sector up to 2015. It also approved the Stepping...
One nursing mother was killed and two others injured in a protest when soldiers raided one Islamic school at Mandara Abdu ward of Biu town of Biu Local Government of Borno State and arrested five scholars suspected to be members of Boko Haram. The inci...
The federal government has said that it was set to increase rice production within the next two years and that by 2015, the country would be self sufficient in rice production. Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, who d...
The managing directors of the nationalised banks; Mainstreet Bank, Keystone Bank and Enterprise Bank, acquired by the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) were yet to assume duties yesterday though the banks were seen wearing new looks. A vi...
The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), has announced new board appointments for the three bridge banks it acquired at the weekend from the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC). The three bridge banks are Mainstreet Bank Limited, K...
A veteran Nollywood actor, Sam Loko Efe, is dead. Aged 66, the versatile actor was on location in his hotel room in Owerri, Imo State when he died. Sam Loco’s death came on the heels of the passing on of another accomplished entertainer, Christy ...