Rafael Nadal has won a record seventh French Open title after emerging a 6-4 6-3 2-6 7-5 victor in the final against Novak Djokovic. The encounter had to be pushed into a second day after rain disrupted it on Sunday at the Roland Garros. Last year Nada...
The first campus emergency medical response Initiative in Nigeria has been launched at the Federal Polytechnic Oko, Anambra State. The project is a joint venture between the polytechnic, the Global Medical Horizon, an Israeli based healthcare provider ...
Officials of Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) have arrested some tipping truck owners and impounded their trucks over alleged illegal excavation activities within the capital city. The Director, AEPB, Isah Shaibu who led the board’s en...
Residents of Kpaduma Community in Garki Ward of Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) have been rendered homeless following an alleged un-announced demolition exercise that took place in the community last weekend. A cross-section of the affected residen...
The Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) yesterday distanced itself from a report by an online media alleging that the ICPC had begun investigation of Mrs. Farida Waziri, former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFFC)...
It was fresh confusion at the Lekan Ogunsola mortuary of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) yesterday as many of the corpses retrieved from the wreckage of the Dana plane crash had begun to d...
In the aftermath of the Boeing 727 cargo crash in Ghana and the Sunday, June 3, Dana plane crash in Lagos, the federal government has inaugurated a nine-man technical and administrative review panel on domestic airlines to investigate and recommend way...
The Nigeria Football Federation on Monday applauded the Inspector-General of Police, Alhaji M. D. Abubakar and the Nigeria Police in general for the great job it deed in freeing Nigerianinternational player Christian Obodo from kidnappers. The p...
West African nations will seek a UN Security Council mandate for military intervention in Mali where rising Islamist militancy has made the country an international security threat. Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou, who made this known on Monda...
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega has reiterated the resolve of the electoral commission to conduct more credible elections in 2015, stressing that the commission is fully prepared for the ele...
Super Eagles stand in skipper, Vincent Enyeama, who has been accused of being responsible for the 1-1 draw against Malawi in Blantyre last Saturday, has put up a brave and called on his teammates to forget the encounter and the World Cup qualifi...
President Goodluck Jonathan would declare open a high level Business and Investment Summit on Nigeria on the sidelines of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympics’ games in July. The Europe Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) r...
The Muslim Lawyers Association of Nigeria (MULAN), on Monday advised the Federal Government to dialogue with the Boko Haram sect, to curb the spate of violence in the country. MULAN made the call in a communique issued at the end of its 17th National E...
A landlady, Justina Solomon, who allegedly bathed a man with acid, was on Monday charged before an Ikorodu Magistrates' Court in Lagos State. The accused, 43, who resides at 22, Olopomeji St., Odogunyan in Ikorodu, is facing a charge of assault. Sh...
Alhaji Kawu Baraje, the former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has dismissed on going merger talks between the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) as wishful thinking. Baraje in a statemen...