The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has blamed the influx of illegal aliens in the country on the dismantling of inland checkpoints on the highways. The Comptroller of Immigration in Benue, Alhaji Yahaya Yunusa, told the News Agenc...
President Goodluck Jonathan has confirmed Malam Bolaji Abdullahi as substantive Minister of Sports, the Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku, has said. Prior to his confirmation, Bolaji was the Minister of Youth Development and was also overs...
Amnesty International has called for a strong global arms trade treaty before the end of the year. The organisation made the appeal during the launch of its 50th global human rights report at the UN Headquarters in New York on Wednesday. It said t...
Dentists have issued a warning about popular fruit drinks and smoothies after it emerged some can be as acidic as vinegar. Fruity drinks are commonly given to children by well-meaning parents to ensure they get their ‘five a day’. But an in...
Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje is the Deputy Governor of Kano State. He was also the Deputy Governor during Governor Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso’s first term in office between 1999 and 2003. In this interview with SA’ADATU SHUAIBU, he speaks on ...
Facts have emerged as to why the Federal Government, prominent scholars and diplomats are vehemently opposed to the move by the United States (US) to formally list Boko Haram as a foreign terrorist organisation (FTO). The federal government raised its ...
The Director-General of the Ethics and Corporate Compliance Institute of Nigeria, Dr. Agabaidu Jideani has declared that the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on the Capital Market, Hon. Heman Hembe and his Deputy Hon Chris Azubo...
The federal government yesterday proscribed all ethnic militia and violent youth groups in the country and ordered that those found culpable in the violence that trailed the 2011 general elections would be prosecuted. The existing ethnic militia, which...
Nigeria is said to be facing the worst of time since the inception of democracy, and needed urgent attention by all.This was the position of an elder statesman, Alhaji Maitama Sule, while addressing members of the Nigeria Youth Parliament (NYP) yesterd...
The Sokoto State Police Command yesterday confirmed that two persons were killed in Marina area of the town during an attack by robbers. The victims were one Inspector Ahmed Saidu and a civilian who was also killed by a stray bullet. Briefing newsmen y...
Following counter-accusations from doctors sacked in the wake of their industrial dispute with Lagos State government that the state government reneged on the agreement it signed with them, the government on Wednesday, refuted the claims, saying it was...
The Kwara State government is to obtain N750 million loan from the Bank of Industry to promote and encourage small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) in the state. The state Commissioner for Commerce and Cooperatives, Alh. Saka Onimago disclosed this ...
Youth organisations have urged the Federal Government to promote education and create employment for the youth as an integrated strategy toward tackling suicide bombing in the country. Mr. Ben Duntoye, the President of the Pan-African Youth Union (PYU)...
Gov. Jonah Jang of Plateau said on Wednesday in Jos that the implementation of the Greater Jos Master Plan was not meant to oppress any particular group. Jang, who stated this at the stakeholders retreat for the implementation of the Greater Jos Master...
FIFA is heading into calmer waters after a series of corruption allegations over the last two years, its president Sepp Blatter said on Tuesday. "I am an optimist," Blatter told reporters ahead of the world soccer body's annual congress. ...