Gov. Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State says his administration will replicate the German model of small and medium scale enterprises development to address the challenges bedeviling prospective entrepreneurs in the state. Amaechi said this in an int...
The Kano State Government has requested the National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP) to return the N50 million it released to the agency in the state for the implementation of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme. The Conditional Cash Transf...
A Yaba Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Monday sentenced 21-year-old office assistant, Segun Adeyemi, to one year imprisonment for stealing three laptop computers valued at N300,000. Magistrate Patrick Adekomaya handed down the sentence, follo...
The Plateau Government on Monday inaugurated a committee to compile a book on the centenary anniversary of the state. Mr Shedrack Best, Secretary to the State Government (SSG), who inaugurated the committee, said the members would within...
A car bomb exploded on Monday in a religiously mixed district on the edge of the Syrian capital Damascus, causing casualties including women and children, state media and opposition campaigners said. The Local Coordination Committees said ambulances we...
The Commonwealth Secretariat is convening a global conference to discuss the unique development challenges of small states and explore policy options to address them. The Second Global Biennial Conference on Small States will take place on 17 an...
The wife of the abducted Monarch of the Okordia clan in Ikarama community of Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State,Mrs. Evelyn Seiba, was weekend arrested by the men of the State Police command over her recent telephone conversation with...
President Goodluck Jonathan and other world leaders on Sunday paid tribute to the late Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi, saying Africa has lost one of its greatest sons. In his tribute, President Jonathan who described Zenawi&rsquo...
The Delta government says it has established and strengthened health facilities in its 25 Local Government Areas to ensure that the target of permanent eradication of polio disease in the state is attained. The measure, according to Dr Winful Gbub...
Ewulu people in Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta have lamented lack of access road to the community, saying they have been cut off from the state. A community leader and the Okita of Ewulu, Chief Eugene Nnadei, told the News Agency of Niger...
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Desmond Tutu has called on the International Criminal Court [ICC] to try former British Prime Minister, Mr. Tony Blair and George Bush, a former American President for their role in the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. &...
Locomotive drivers with the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) , can become Railway District Managers (RDM), provided they have all it takes, says its Director of Operations, Mr Niyi Alli. Alli said on Saturday in Lagos that locomotive drivers were as ...
The Director-General, Cross River Agency for the Control of HIV/AIDS, Dr Irene Aniyom, has stressed the importance of early sex education to children by parents. Aniyom told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ugep, Yakur Local Government Area of the s...
The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) in Akwa-Ibom says it has trained about 2,000 Akwa-Ibom youths in various marketable skills since the beginning of the year. The State Coordinator of the programme, Mrs Patience Osunkwo, disclosed this i...
The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) has concluded plans to embark on enlightenment campaign against the use of defective vehicles in Katsina State. The state's FRSC Sector Commander, Alhaji Habu Dauda, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in...