UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday called on the international community to support new Syrian peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi and to ensure that those responsible for war crimes in the conflict-torn country are prosecuted. Ban told the UN Human Rights Co...
A businessman, Fatai Adetunji, who allegedly obtained N8.4 million under false pretences, was on Monday charged before a Tinubu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos. Adetunji, 43, who resides at No. 5, Odunfa St., Lagos Island, is standing trial on a thre...
The Abia government says it will soon begin the dredging of Aba River to accommodate bigger vessels. A statement by Chief Eze Chikamnayo, the state Commissioner for Information and Strategy, said on Monday in Umuahia that the dredging was approved on S...
The United Nations Confab headed by the Nigerian Permanent Representative to the world body, Ambassador Joy Ogwu, has submitted the reports of its Second Review Conference of the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Tra...
Armed robbers went on the rampage, yesterday, in broad daylight in Lagos, killing several people, including two policemen inside their patrol vehicle. According to an eyewitness who gave his name as Tayo Adeyeri, the robbers, who drove in two SUVs, a T...
Unless religious intolerance and social injustice are addressed in the northern part of the country, the region will never record significant development politically, socially and economically like its southern counterpart. Prominent academic and legal...
President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, reassured Nigerians that there was no going back on the ongoing privatisation of the power sector, and added that “the transformation has reached the point where ev...
Scott Van Duzer, pizza parlor owner and blood donator, can bench press 350 pounds. So he had no trouble with the 6’1, 176-pound, skinny President Obama. Mr. Obama got a huge lift — literally — from the registered Republican during an ...
Niger State Governor, Muazu Babangida Aliyu, has urged Nigerians not to allow religious differences to serve as a barrier among them but to come together and work for national development. This is just as the Etsu Nupe, Alhaji Yahaya Abubakar, has also...
Kogi State Governor Idris Wada has expressed his administration’s commitment to implement the 2010 white paper on the crisis in the central axis of the state, with a view to restoring permanent peace in the area. He disclosed this at the Governme...
Niger State government is to access additional N200 billion federal government agriculture enhancement loan for farmers across the nation. The state government had earlier received N1 billion from the N200 billion fund and distributed same to 757 coope...
The Super Eagles was yesterday officially decamped and have been scheduled to resume camping in the first week of October for the October 13 crunch Nations Cup winner takes all tie against the Lone Star of Liberia in Calabar. Head Coach, Stephen Keshi ...
Nigeria Football Federation President, Alhaji Aminu Maigari has boasted that the Super Eagles will win the return leg of the 2013 Nations Cup qualifier which she drew 1-1 in Monrovia against the Lone Star in Calabar. Maigari stated this in Liberia afte...
Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State has decried the continuous decline of sporting activities in Nigeria. He said the decline in sports is also affecting the nation’s economic and that the growth of every nation must reflect its improvement in sp...
Nigeria is already late in beginning its preparations for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games to be hosted by Brazil, Director General of the National Sports Commission (NSC), Patrick Ekeji has said. He said this at a reception hosted by Dr Dalhatu Tafida, the ...