Governors Umaru Tanko Al-Makura of Nasarawa State, Patrick Yakowa of Kaduna State and his Ekiti State counterpart, Kayode Fayemi, yesterday joined some ministers from Nigeria to woo United States’ investors into the non-oil sector. Al-Makura, who...
Governor Babangida Muazu Aliyu of Niger State has said there is a strong link between some key members of Boko Haram and Islamic group, Daru-Salam, based in Bokani, Mokwa local government area of Niger State. The members were allegedly dislodged ...
The immediate past Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Oluseyi Olusegun Petinrin yesterday cautioned military against coup since there is no political solution is in their hands. He made the clarion call in Abuja at the pulling out parade to mark his retireme...
Over 2,500 Nigerian fishermen displaced at the ceded Bakassi Peninsula yesterday protested over alleged rape of their women, homelessness, harassment and inability to fish on the waterways. The protesters made up of former natives of the ceded oil-rich...
The Vice Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Prof. Abdullahi Mustapha, has tasked alumni, stakeholders, friends and members of the university community to donate to the N50 billion endowment funds to be launched during the forthcoming G...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has uncovered some choice property allegedly owned by former Bayelsa State Governor, Timpreye Sylva. Sylva is being prosecuted by the anti-graft agency before a Federal High Court in Abuja on a six-co...
Members of the House of Representatives yesterday rejected the move by the Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, to include their spouses on the list of diplomatic passport holders. The lawmakers instead called for the pruning of the list of diplomatic pass...
Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Minister of Finance has described the book ``Reforming the Un-reformable: Lessons from Nigeria'' as a book of hope about the country. Okonjo-Iweala made the remark on Friday at the Official Lunch of the Book, written...
A security guard with Guaranty Trust Bank was on Friday charged with vandalising an Automated Teller Machine (ATM), and stealing N1 million at an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court, Lagos. Danjuma Abutu, 36, who lives at No 35, Ibafon St., Olodi-Apapa, ...
The outgoing Israeli Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Moshe Ram, on Friday urged the United Nations (UN) to sustain the peace-keeping interventions in crisis-ridden Syria and other areas of the Middle-East. Ram made the suggestion in Lagos at the Nigerian Ins...
Seven members of Britain's crack Royal Marines regiment are facing a murder probe in connection with an incident in Afghanistan's Helmand province in 2011, the British Ministry of Defence said on Friday. The ministry said that the men were arre...
Mr John Kolawole, General Secretary of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), wants the Federal Government to implement the provisions of the 2013 budget to enhance the achievement of President Goodluck Jonathan’s transformation agenda. ...
The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has trained 800 unemployed youths in Kano in nine different skills. Malam Abubakar Mohammed, the NDE Director General, said in Kano on Friday during the graduation of the trainees that the programme wa...
Air Chief Marshal Oluseyi Petinrin ), former Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), on Friday called on the military to leave governance to the politicians and not to interfere with the democratic process. Petinrin gave the advice at the Pulling out Parade to m...
A major development in the economy this week was the presentation of the 2013 federal budget proposal of N4.9 trillion to the National Assembly . The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the size of the 2013 budget proposal represented a five per ...