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With six children all under the age of ten, Angelina Jolie is set to marry her long-term partner Brad Pitt. The incredibly glamorous couple are said to be planning an ‘intimate and informal’ wedding in the South of France. The ceremo...
The nation’s cocoa processors, yesterday said they wantt the government to set up an industry regulator to boost earnings from the crop. “We are asking for the government to set up an agency, an authority to monitor and provide the legal fr...
Domestic help has always been needed and so the hiring of house-helps is not new. The services house-helps render include cooking, stewardship, doing the laundry, car washing, gardening, baby-sitting, driving, cleaning and other general services. In Ni...
Specific provisions of the Electoral Act 2010, as amended, vests on relevant courts of competent jurisdiction the power to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to issue Certificates of Return to candidates who successfully seek i...
In furtherance of its zero tolerance for illegal structures in the state ,the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, yesterday directed that all illegal structures sitting on canals and drainage channel, which included churches, schools and...
The Save Nigeria Group (SNG) has raised alarm over alleged plot by some politicians to distabilise the sociopolitical group and Nigeria as a country. SNG in a press statement at the end of its stakeholders meeting on July 11, 2011 at the Rockview Hotel...
No fewer than 40 non-militants who were undergoing the mandatory skill acquisition training at the Petroleum Technology Institute (PTI) Effurun, Warri, Delta State, under the empowerment programme of the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, in conjun...
Israeli ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Moshe Ram, has told the Nigerian government at various levels not to neglect mechanised agriculture, which he described as the surest way of feeding the country’s vast population. In a statement made available t...
Justice Olateru Olagbegi of a Lagos High Court has ordered the French embassy in Nigeria, Mr. Dovi Amouzou, a senior officer in the embassy and Christopher Racinet to pay N4, 171, 500, 00 to an automobile firm, Floride Automobile Limited. The amount is...
The Bishop of Kubwa Diocese (Anglican Communion), Rt. Reverend Duke Akamisoko, has said that the proposed Islamic Banking is making some people to be apprehensive, saying that the development is overheating the polity. The cleric, who spoke to journali...
Six indigenes of Katsina State have been selected to represent Nigeria at an international education debate scheduled for South Korea later this month. The debate, which will focus on education and cultural discourse, is part of an educational pursuit ...
The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and the Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Adoke (SAN), yesterday said that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Enforcement Regulations, 2010 law was not meant to muzzle or slow down the activ...
The Director-general of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Brigadier General Maharazu Tsiga has directed that all corps members serving in Borno state be deployed immediately due to the security situation in the state. The Director General stated ...
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday fixed July 19 to take the plea of five police officers accused of unlawfully killing former leader of the Boko Haram sect, late Mohammed Yusuf. Those charged to undergo the trial are J.B. Abang, Akeera, and Ma...
Royal Dutch Shell yesterday said it had lifted a force majeure on Bonny Light crude oil loadings which was declared on June 13, 2011, due to leaks and fires on its Trans-Niger Pipeline. A Shell spokesman in Nigeria confirmed that the force majeure, (wh...