Mr Alex Ohikere, the Director-General, National Steel Raw Materials Exploration Agency (NSRMEA), says the agency has acquired new rig to boost exploration activities in three states of the federation. Ohikere, who spoke to newsmen in Abuja on Thursday,...
The menace of climate change, if not tackled, will deter efforts of various governments at attaining food security, says Mr Silvanus Dangoji, a lecturer at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria. Dangoji said this at a workshop on climate chang...
The United Kingdom has said that it is committed to the fight against terrorism by the radical Islamic sect, Boko Haram and several other terrorist organizations across the world. The Head of Political Section, British High Commission in Nigeria, Mr. P...
The Imo State Government said it has uncovered 3000 abandoned water projects scattered across the 27 local government areas of the state. Making the disclosure while commissioning three water schemes donated by a Non-Governmental Organization (NG...
A new Commissioner of Police has been appointed for the Osun State Police Command. She is Mrs. Kakafite Adeyemi. Mrs. Adeyemi succeeds the former Commissioner of Police, Mr. Olusegun Solomon who was recently promoted to the rank of Assistant Inspector ...
Four suspected drug barons were killed in a clash with NDLEA officials on Wednesday at Loco village in Song Local Government Area of Adamawa. The state NDLEA Commander, Alhaji Hassan Zungeru, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) i...
The National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP) in Kano State is to set up a committee to recover outstanding debts from its loan defaulters across the state. The NAPEP State Secretary, Hajiya Zainab Mohammed, disclosed this in an interview with the...
One of the new entrants to the governorship race in Ondo State, Dr Olusegun Abraham, has given his verdict on the three year administration of Governor Olusegun Mimiko in the State and concluded that it was a failure. The aspirant who is vy...
Despite all efforts by host governor Isa Yuguda and some other governors of the North-East geo-political zone, delegates in Bauchi yesterday voted for Dr. Musa Babayo, the immediate past national secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as their...
The conditions of trade as stipulated under the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) have been described as too stringent and would further impoverish the African continent by stifling economic growth and development. Former governor of the Central B...
Nine gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram sect were yesterday killed by soldiers in a gun duel at Tudun Wada Dakadai town in Tudun Wada local government area of Kano State. The Joint Task Force (JTF) which carried out the operation has recovere...
The minister of petroleum resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, has been vindicated by a Vienna-based Regional Court for Criminal Matters over an alleged purchase of a 20 million euro mansion in the Austrian capital last November. Slamming the Heute ...
Indications emerged yesterday that a fresh massive fraud of an alleged N18billion illegal transactions had been unearthed by the Pension Reform Task Force at the Police Pension Office (PPO). A source close to the ministerial taskforce also confided in ...
Suspected financier of Boko Haram and serving senator, Ali Ndume, standing trial for alleged complicity in the activities of the Jama'atu Ahlis Sunnah Lidda'awati Wal Jihad, otherwise known as Boko Haram, yesterday, asked a Federal High Court i...
The Kaduna State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of one Mustapha Adamu and one other for alleged involvement in the death of an officer of Vehicle Inspection Office (VIO) Jos-Akwanga road in Jema’a Local Government Area of the State. The ...