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Mr Chris Olakpe, the new Commissioner of Police in Plateau on Tuesday assumed duty with a call for dialogue between striking workers and the state government to end the impasse. Olakpe, who took over the command on Monday, was greeted on assu...
The Nigeria Premier League (NPL) Board on Monday suspended its Chairman, Victor Baribote, to enable the three-man committee investigating the crisis between the board and club owners complete its assignment. The suspension is contained in...
Following the escape from arrest, of the former Kogi State governor, Abubakar Audu, by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on December 11, 2012, the Commission has concluded plans to declare him wanted. The former governor...
The Registrar of the National Examinations Council (NECO), Prof. Promise Okpala, said on Tuesday in Abuja that staff transfers in the establishment were punitive but a normal practice in the council. Okpala was speaking against&nbs...
The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) says it sealed 51 companies in the last three months for offences relating to tax evasion. Mrs Folasade Coker-Afolayan, the Head of Distrain Unit of LIRS, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeri...
President Goodluck Jonathan has made a passionate appeal to the United States government to help the federal government in the bid to tackle the security morass the country is enmeshed in, following the gory activities of the Islamic extremist gr...
The House of Representatives Committee on Information on Tuesday in Abuja urged the media to boost Nigeria’s anti-corruption campaign through effective use of the Freedom of Information Act (FOI). The committee's Chairman, Alhaji Buba Jibril,...
The Nasarawa State House of Assembly on Tuesday withdrew its earlier threat to impeach Gov. Tanko Al-Makura over the rising wave of insecurity in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the l...
Gerd Muller must be sick of the sight of Lionel Messi. For the second time in the space of six months he has witnessed the diminutive attacker break one of his long-standing records. By the end of the 2011-12 season the 25-year-old had surpassed the pr...
The 7th Annual Congress of the Nigeria Premier League will hold today in Abuja after the Nigeria Football Federation moved it from Kano. The Congress will now up from 10 am at a yet to be announced venue. Acting Executive Secretary who confirmed this i...
The highly anticipated 2012 Kaduna international Polo Tournament galloped off Sunday December 9 at the famous Ahmadu Yakubu Polo Club House, Murtala Mohammed Sports Complex, Kaduna; With 32 teams from various polo clubs in Nigeria on parade. This year&...
The maiden edition of Glo Golf Tour West Africa ended on Sunday night in Otukpo, Benue State with a big bang as Globacom doled out N20 million cash, a brand new car, motorcycles, sewing machines and other prizes to pros and amateurs who won in the Gran...
In what appeared like a rebellion against the stand of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF),on the issue of granting autonomy to the local government system, the Association of Local Governments’ of Nigeria, ALGON, recently organized a three-...
President Goodluck Jonathan returned to Abuja, yesterday, after the burial rites of his younger brother, Chief Meni Jonathan in Otuoke, Bayelsa State, at the weekend, and thanked Nigerians for their support and goodwill. A statement by the Special Advi...
The Nigerian High Commission in South Africa has not been issuing visas for two weeks, after running out of visa labels. It was also gathered that the development is causing tension among applicants as they are unable to meet scheduled appointments and...