The federal government yesterday in Abuja signed Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) on power projects with the French and Japanese governments, worth $200 million (N31.4 billion) and N2 billion respectively bringing it to a total of N33.4 billion. The Mo...
Super Eagles’ Head Coach, Stephen Keshi, will tomorrow in Abuja unveil his hit squad for the three big games in the month of June. Already, 24 home boys have been sweating it out in Abuja for the past two weeeks, ahead of the international friend...
Vice President Namadi Sambo, yesterday, told a high level trade delegation from Japan that Nigeria has over 85 million hectares of uncultivated arable land. The Vice President gave this figure while receiving the delegation led by the Nigerian Am...
Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi will replace Inter Milan ace Joel Obi, who has suffered a thigh injury and will be out for a month. Keshi lamented the absence of Obi for next month’s World Cup and Nations Cup qualifiers. “It’s sad that he...
World football-governing body, FIFA has named Sudanese referee Khalid Abdel Rahman as the centre man for the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying match between the Super Eagles of Nigeria and the Brave Warriors of Namibia, which is scheduled for the UJ Esuen...
In African folklore, countless myths are surely evoked at the mention of an old witch. The wailing of this dark creature is, for instance, taken as portentous, a signpost to evil. So, at its shriek cry in the middle of the night, no true mother w...
The Senate yesterday confirmed the ministerial nomination of Mr. Inuwa Abdul-Kadir, thereby filling the ministerial slot for Sokoto State. Former minister of Sports, Alhaji Yusuf Suleiman, had resigned to contest for governorship of Sokoto...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday said a very strong, modern and proactive military is a catalyst to achieving his administration’s Transformation Agenda and solve the ongoing security problems and development challenges in the polity. Speaki...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), yesterday, said it has arraigned one Eronini Iwunze before Justice G.U Umar of the Federal High Court, sitting in Umuahia, on a two count charge of obtaining money under false pretence and illegal op...
Disturbed by the delay in the payment of the 53 per cent of 2010 pension arrears to them by the Federal Government, the military pensioners under the aegis of the Nigerian Military Pensioners Association yesterday made a passionate plea to President Go...
Barely a month after some robbers raided a bus and raped some students on Lagos-Benin expressway; the Ogun Poilce Command yesterday said it had foiled a bus robbery attack along Lagos/ Ibadan Expressway. It claimed to have killed four suspects and reco...
President Goodluck Jonathan has revealed how he takes decisions on state matters by taking into cognisance the views expressed by thousands of social media users who interact with him on daily basis as online friends. Jonathan, in a posting yesterday t...
Last week, President Goodluck Jonathan was rattled out of his cocoon by the federal government’s decision to increase electricity tariff next month to narrate how he was betrayed by the governors over the fuel subsidy crisis early this year. But ...
The Federal Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with France to undertake studies in the nation’s electricity transmission, distribution and design network. The study would be carried out under the auspices of the Transmissio...
Amb. Kadré Ouedraogo, the President of ECOWAS Commission, has expressed the readiness of the ECOWAS force to intervene in the political crises in Guinea Bissau and Mali. Ouedraogo gave the indication at the on-going 2012 ordinary session of ECOWAS Par...