President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday swore in the second set of ministerial nominees earlier scrutinised and cleared by the National Assembly. The swearing-in ceremony took place at the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa, Abuja where he restate...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday placed a weighty challenge on the shoulders of his special advisers, saying they must be more informed and educated than his ministers in areas where they were appointed to counsel him. Jonathan gave this charge af...
A six-year-old boy was late Wednesday pulled out of the collapsed building at Idumota area of Lagos State alive more than 24 hours after the accident. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that the boy whose identity could not be immediately ascert...
The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Orubebe, has said that he ordered the revocation of the N10 billion skill acquisition centres in Edo and Delta states to uphold President Goodluck Jonathan’s promises of meeting up the developmen...
The death toll in the four-storey building collapse at 4, Mogaji Street, Idumota/Ebute-Ero area, Lagos Island on Tuesday night has continued to increase, largely due to the distortion in the physical planning of the area that has made immediate evacuat...
The minister of petroleum resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, yesterday told the House of Representatives that marketers and cartels were to blame for the scarcity of kerosene across the country. Honouring Tuesday’s invitation by the House to...
Beyonce‘s 4 album debuted at number one on the Billboard Top 200 this week with 310,000 records sold. 4 is Beyonce’s lowest first-week sales for any of her solo releases. Her peak was 541,000 for B’Day back in 2006 and Sasha Fierce so...
Despite failing to guide the Nigerian women’s senior national team beyond the preliminary stage of the ongoing Fifa Women’s World Cup in Germany, Eucharia Ngozi Uche has got the nod to remain in charge of the Super Falcons as head coach. Ch...
Rivers State basketball teams have won the gold medals in the basketball men and women events decided yesterday at the soon to be completed 17th National Sports Festival. In the men’s category,the host defeated the Lagos State team 75 to 63 point...
Coach of Nigeria’s Flying Eagles John Obuh has asked his team make the most of the chances they create and score more goals. The Flying Eagles in Faro, Portugal, began intensive preparation for the FIFA Under-20 World Cup in Colombia. “We n...
Former welterweight and light-welterweight world champion, Ricky Hatton has announced his retirement at the age of 32. He has not fought since he suffered a crushing IBO light-welterweight world title defeat at the hands of Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas ...
The governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Raji Fashola SAN, is leading the Lagos State delegation to Abuja this weekend for the Veteran All stars tournament. The competition which is an annual event will consist of participants from Lagos, Benin, Onitsha,...
Fresh evidence has been uncovered in the investigation of claims of high-level corruption within Fifa, with Carlos Powell, the vice-president of Guyana’s federation, claiming “gifts” were given out at a meeting of the Caribbean Footba...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has informed an Abuja High Court that the former Speaker of House of Representatives, Hon. Dimeji Bankole was charged to court for acts relating to his administrative functions and not on the ba...
The All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) yesterday suspended its governorship candidate in Kogi State, Prince Abubakar Audu. Giving reasons for his suspension from the party, the ANPP national chairman, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, said Audu was involved in anti-par...