The Federal Capitial Territory Administration (FCTA) is considering the removal of Wuse Market and replacing it with a secondary school, Alhaji Isa Shuaibu, Director, Abuja Environment Protection Board (AEPB), said on Saturday in Abuja. Shuaibu d...
Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, flanked by his Zimbabwean counterpart Morgan Tsavangirai, received his Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) Presidential ticket Friday at a lavish party gathering. The ODM National Delegates Conference (NDC), comprising ...
The Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order on Friday, shot dead four suspected terrorist commanders of the Boko Haram group after an operation in Maiduguril. JTF spokesman Lt.-Col. Sagir Musa announced this in a statement issued in...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Osun has arrested a pastor and a 27 year-old man with 181 bags of cannabis sativa popularly known as Indian hemp. The sector commander of the Agency, Anthonia Edeh, made this known on Friday while add...
A cross section of party chieftains affected by the de-registration of 28 parties by INEC on Friday in Abuja described the exercise as human rights violation. Reacting to the development, National Chairman, National Conscience Party (NCP), Dr Yunisa Ta...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday arraigned a Lagos-based transporter, Kafilu Baba, before a Lagos High Court in Ikeja over alleged N7 million fraud. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Baba was arraigned bef...
he Jigawa Government on Friday inaugurated a 12-member Arts and Multimedia Censorship Board. The state’s Commissioner for Information, Alhaji Babandi Ibrahim, who inaugurated the board, said the committee was to regulate and censor th...
A strong quake centred off northeastern Japan shook buildings as far away as Tokyo on Friday and triggered a one-metre tsunami in an area devastated by last year's Fukushima disaster, but there were no reports of deaths or serious damage. The quake...
The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) said on Friday that 101 ships were expected to arrive at the various terminals in Lagos ports between Dec. 7 and Dec. 31. The NPA daily publication, ``Shipping Position’’, made available to newsmen in Lago...
Gov. Liyel Imoke of Cross River on Friday started a two-month accumulated leave. This is contained in a statement issued on Friday in Calabar by Mr Christian Ita, Chief Press Secretary and Special Assistant on Media to the governor, and made avail...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja on Thursday announced the de-registration of 27 political parties. The announcement is contained in a statement signed by the Commission's Secretary, Abdulahi Kaugama, in Abuja. Accordin...
Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN) has intensified the clean up of the Atlantic shoreline in Akwa Ibom contaminated by the Nov. 9, oil spill emanating from its operations. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) learnt that additional 100 oil spill personnel ...
Residents in the southern Philippines began to bury their dead on Friday, as rescue workers continued scouring remote areas for possible survivors of Typhoon Bopha, the country's strongest storm this year. The storm killed 418 people and left ...
Ghanaians choose on Friday who will run one of Africa's most stable democracies as a surge in oil revenues promises to boost development and economic growth. Ghana has earned a reputation as an oasis of stability and progress in West Africa, a part...
Ejike Mbogu, a member of a deadly gang of six that has been terrorizing Lagos and Ogun States, has told the police how they wasted 10 policemen who dared to stand in their way. Ejike who is the number two man in the gang, spoke on behalf of other membe...