The Kaduna State Government on Saturday expressed concern on the reported outbreak of a rice disease, known as rice blast, in some parts of the state. Officials of the the Kaduna Agricultural Development Project (KADP) are already expressing fear that ...
President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday said work was at advanced stage toward transforming the Abuja Securities and Commodities Exchange into a world class exchange. Jonathan made the statement in Lagos at the opening of the 2012 Lagos International T...
The Minister of Health, Prof. Oyebuchi Chukwu has again harped on the need for the private sector contribution to the realisation of the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) by the year 2015. Chukwu said this on Saturday in Abuja at the 16th Annual ...
Barely five days after fire gutted a 5-storey building, fire has razed another three-storey building at Breadfruit Street on Lagos Island, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, with one person killed in the inferno. The fire started Friday around 2.00 pm at 46 Bre...
The Federal Government with Kano State Government has inaugurated an ultra-modern Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis treatment centre in Kano, a statement said. The statement was issued by Malam Halilu Dantiye, the Director of Press and Public Relations...
The Nigeria Society of Engineers (NSE) on Friday urged government to hasten the design and construction of Mambilla and Katsina-Ala hydropower dams as a measure to control floods in the areas. Alhaji Mustapha Shehu, President of NSE, made the pos...
Telecommunications operators and service providers in the country are planning to introduce discriminatory tariffs based on tax regimes and operating environments in different states. Mr Gbenga Adebayo, the Chairman of Association of licensed Tel...
Chief Afe Babalola on Saturday disagreed with the National Assembly (NASS) on the process of amending the Nigerian Constitution, saying the problem with the constitution could not be solved by ``mere amendments``. The National Assembly is currently car...
Mr Ayo Opadokun, the General Secretary of National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), on Friday urged the Federal Government not to allow the Boko Haram group to dictate the pace of peace talks. He gave the advice in Lagos during the 11th Annual Leadership...
Vice-President Namadi Sambo on Friday restated the Federal Government's resolve to alleviate the sufferings of the victims of natural disasters. He gave the assurance in Buanchor, Boki Local Government Area of Cross River, after conducting an asses...
The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, says that the Federal Government will implement the White Paper on the reports of the task forces set up on the petroleum industry. The minister gave the assurance in Abuja on Friday duri...
As the presidential election in the United States remain just three days, both candidates, the incumbent President Barrack Obama and Mitt Romney have done everything possible to make their agenda acceptable to the people. They have also done everything...
The opposition Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) has described as untrue and deceptive, reports suggesting that its presidential candidate in the last general elections, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari will mediate in the proposed parley between the...
Soldiers allegedly shot dead dozens of young men during raids in Maiduguri, Borno State residents and a morgue worker told Agency France Presse (AFP). The reported military operations targeted four neighbourhoods of Maiduguri, the epicentre of an insur...
Edo State government has suspended the recruitment exercise undertaken by the state Post-Primary Education Board (PPEB). In a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mr. Peter Okhiria, the government noted that “preliminary invest...