A delegation from the International Criminal Court (ICC) was prevented on Tuesday from seeing two colleagues being held in a provincial Libyan jail because a local militia closed roads into the town. Australian lawyer Melinda Taylor and Lebanese-born i...
The PDP in Edo has threatened to sue Gov. Adams Oshiomhole over alleged false accusation on the death of his Principal Private Secretary, Mr Olaitan Oyerinde. The party issued the threat via a statement signed by its Publicity Secretary, Mr Mathew Orho...
UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) is to spend 36 million pounds (about N9 billion) to train Nigerian teachers within the next six years. DFID’s Senior Education Adviser, Ms. Barbara Payne, made this known on Tuesday in Ab...
The Alakenne of Ikenne, Oba Adeyinka Onakade, was on Monday night attacked by gunmen suspected to be assassins. The traditional ruler was attacked alongside his lawyer, Omosanya Solaja, in his palace in Ikenne, Ogun. Solaja, a former member of Ogun Hou...
Some assailants, believed to be cultists, on Sunday in Abeokuta killed an official of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC). The NSCDC official, Sheriff Elegbede, an inspector, was allegedly hacked to death with machetes and axes. The N...
The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) on Tuesday said that it had suspended the operations of Air Nigeria owing to the strike embarked upon by its engineers and pilots over poor welfare package. Mr Sam Adurogboye, the NCAA’s General Manager...
Brig.-Gen. Nnamdi Okorie-Affia, Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), has decried the incessant request for posting of corps members to places of their choice. Okorie-Affia's view is contained in a press statement signed by M...
The Northern States Governors Forum (NSGF) has paid tribute to former Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, who will clocks 70 years on Wednesday, describing him as ``father of the nation’s democracy''. The forum Chairman ...
Telecommunication operators in Nigeria registered 80 per cent of SIM cards as at March 31, Mr Shina Badaru, President, Joint Action Committee on Information and Communication Awareness and Development (JACITAD) has said. Badaru disclosed this on Tuesda...
Mrs Omobola Johnson, the Minister of Information and Communication Technology, has urged the Anti-corruption and Transparency Unit (ACTU) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to be committed to its mandate. She gave the charge at the inaugur...
Nigeria's priority at the forthcoming `Rio+20' conference is on harnessing alternative energy that would boost power supply in the country, the Minister of Environment, Hajia Hadiza Mailafia, said on Tuesday. Mailafia said this in Abuja a...
Christian Obodo, Italy-based Nigerian footballer, who was released on Sunday from the clutches of kidnappers in Delta, has commended Gov. Emmanuel Uduaghan for his role in securing his freedom. Obodo spoke in Asaba on Tuesday when he paid a courtesy vi...
Dr Sam Jaja, the Deputy National Chairman of PDP, has said that the party was working in partnership with the African National Congress (ANC) to strengthen democracy in Africa. Jaja made the remark on Tuesday in Johannesburg in an interview...
Gunmen have shot dead six persons at Rimin Kebe in Tudun Murtala, Ungogo Local Government Area of Kano, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. An eye witness told NAN in Kano on Tuesday that the incident, which happened at about 10:00 p.m on Monday,...
President Jacob Zuma of South Africa has appointed Mangwasi Phivega as the country's first female National Police Commissioner Zuma announced the appointment ofPhiyega's in Pretoria on Tuesday at a news briefing. .Phiyega, who is currently the ...