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Two journalists covering the council polls in Eket , Southern Akwa Ibom, were on Saturday brutalised by the Police at the Eket Office of Akwa Ibom State Independent Electoral Commission (AKISIEC) The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports tha...
Some financial experts on Saturday commended the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) over the N75 billion approved for the commencement of Nigerian Incentive-Sharing in Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) to farmers. They told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN...
Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Mohammed Umar, said the Federal Government is committed to making the Nigerian Armed Forces one the best in the world by the year 2020. He made this known in Abuja on Saturday at the end of the ``Annual 10 kil...
Deputy Inspector-General of Police Marvel Akpoyibo is in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom capital, to monitor the local government elections in the state. Akpoyibo, who is the DIG in charge of E-Department (Training) at the Police Headquarters, Abuja, addressed the ...
Some of the runway lights at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja which were out of order on Friday night have now been repaired. The Special Assistant to Princess Stella Oduah, the Minister of Aviation, Mr Joe Obi, disclosed this...
The Depot Nigerian Army, Zaria, has urged the public not to panic by its range classification exercise scheduled to hold from June 11 to June 15. This is contained in a release signed by the Army Public Relations Officer, Depot Nigerian Army, Lt...
Leader of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, Gen. MuhammaduBuhari, said yesterday that his party would soon reach an accord with the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, on how to wrestle power from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, P...
Barely one week after the fatal air crash involving Dana Air in Lagos, another air mishap was narrowly averted yesterday at the NnamdiAzikiwe Airport, Abuja when the run way lights went off, thus making it impossible for planes to either take off or la...
The spate of insecurity in parts of the north heightened yesterday with the bombing of the headquarters of the Nigeria Police Force in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, by a suicide bomber. The bomber, it was learnt, rammed into the premises in a bom...
United Nations Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, has appointed Mrs Amina Az-Zubair a former Senior Special Assistant to President Jonathan on MDGs, as his Special Adviser on Post-2015 Development Planning, and Parfait Onanga-Anyanga of Gabon as his S...
She was once rated among the top 10 most beautiful and sexy actresses in the early days of Nollywood. Also rated side the likes of Liz Benson, Regina Askia, Sandra Achums, Eucharia Anunobi, among others, Ayo Adesanya dazzled the movie industry in...
Last Sunday when the entire nation was thrown into severe mourning mood with the news of the ill-fated Dana Airline that killed over 180 people, I became more saddened when I saw a link to my BB Phone stating, ‘Breaking News: D’banj Shot De...
With what could be described as the tradition of most musical artistes in mainstream entertainment across the world, many Nigerian artistes also started their singing career from the church choir. While some of these artistes still maintain the genre o...
Dijatou (Khadijah) Aliyu, also known as Hadiza Gabon, was born on 1st June, 1989 at Libreville, the capital city of Gabon. She attended Ecol; de Francaise Gabonnaise in Gabon, where she bagged a diploma in French in 2006. Gabon as she is popularly call...
Born on May 20, 1970, in Streatham, London, England. Naomi Campbell grew up with her mother Valerie Campbell, a Jamaican who grew up in London. A modern ballet dancer, Valerie spent much time traveling throughout Europe with her dance troupe, so ...