Gov. Babatunde Fashola of Lagos has met behind closed doors with the families of victims of DANA plane crash on ways to fast track the release of the corpses for proper burial. The meeting which lasted for five hours was to address areas of concern ove...
The Peoples` Democratic Party (PDP) has called on security agencies and election observers to proffer ways of ensuring that the forthcoming governorship election in Edo was peaceful and transparent. Mr Olosa Metuh, the party`s National Publicity Secret...
As calm returns to Jos, after Sunday suicide bomb attack on Christ Chosen Church, the state government has cautioned youths against taking the law into their hands after such incidents. The Commissioner for Information, Mr Abraham Yiljap, told the News...
Afghanistan officials said on Monday that some 70 people were trapped in rubble after mud houses collapsed from two strong earthquakes. The earthquakes also triggered a landslide in the mountains of northern Afghanistan, officials added. A remote villa...
The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) on Monday called for probe of the alleged $600,000 bribe against a “key member” of the House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy Regime. This is contained in a statement...
No less than 56 African ministers of tourism and 25 top officials of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) will converge on Nigeria for the ``53rd Session of African Ministers of Tourism’’. Chief Edem Duke, the Minister of C...
Gov. Martin Elechi of Ebonyi has urged the three tiers of government and the traditional institutions to use culture to stabilise the country. Elechi gave the advice on Sunday during a fund raising ceremony for the construction of a...
Gov. Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom said on Sunday that he had earlier lodged a complaint with the management of Dana Air before the unfortunate plane crashed at Iju-Ishaga, Lagos on June 3. Akpabio told reporters at the Murtala Muhammed International ...
Internal Security Minister Prof George Saitoti and his assistant minister Joshua Orwa Ojodeh are among six people who died in a police helicopter crash Sunday morning in Ngong area on the outskirts of Nairobi. Saitoti and Orwa Ojode were aboard t...
A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives Sunday outside a church in central Nigeria as gunmen attacked another church in the nation's northeast, killing at least three people and wounding dozens of others in the latest religious violence in a co...
The Borno Government has ruled out the possibility of conducting local government polls in the state soon because of security challenges in the area. Alhaji Baba Jidda, the Secretary to the State Government, told newsmen Maiduguri on ...
A former Comptroller General of Federal Fire Service, Mr Fidelis Ogbogoh, on Sunday called on the Federal Government to stop all aircraft above 15 years from operating in the country. Ogbogoh made the call in an interview with the News Agenc...
Former Argentina football team boss, Diego Maradona has backed Lionel Messi to continue the impressive start he has made since taking over the national team captaincy. The Al Wasl coach admitted that the Barcelona star was a quiet kid but backed him to...
Unfaithfulness is used to describe someone who is involved in an extramarital affair. But what most people fail to know is that being faithful in marriage is far more complicated than cheating on your partner. Faithfulness encompasses elements such as ...
False lashes! You see them everywhere these days. This beauty trend that was once reserved for celebrities is now available to the average woman on the street, and the Nigerian woman is not left out. Observation has shown that well-placed eyelashes can...