Though the international sanctions placed on Iranian crude oil export do not take effect until July 1, 2012, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has said Iranian oil exports have already dipped, while the Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation (NNPC...
The Northern Socio-Cultural Oranization, Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) yesterday said that the use of force will never solve the current insecurity ocassion by the activities of Boko Haram. Reacting to the recent bomb blast on Newspapers Houses in Abu...
Governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa of Kaduna State yesterday said that the Northern part of the country can survive without relying on oil. Yakowa who stated this while declaring the 33rd Kaduna International trade fair open said with the abundant natural...
Rampaging cultists in Ibusa, Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta Stat, has allegedly killed a carpenter identified as Smart (surname withheld). Reports said the victim before the incident was a well known carpenter in the community and was on...
The Peoples Democratic Party in the South West has said it will appeal Friday’s ruling of a Lagos High Court nullifying the party’s Zonal Congress held in Osogbo, Osun State on March 21, 2012. Reacting to the court ruling, the PDP said in a...
As part of the efforts to make the Oguta Blue Lake of treasure the greatest tourism centre in Africa, the Imo State government has reached agreement with the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) to site a movie village at the lake side. The State Governor, Ro...
Three journalists covering the Edo Government House lost their lives on Saturday afternoon when a lorry crashed into Gov. Adams Oshiomhole’s convoy. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the governor and his entourage were headi...
President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday towed a different part from his National Security Adviser (NSA), Gen. Andrew Owoye Azazi, when he disagreed with him out-rightly on a statement credited to him in the media in which he blamed udemocrati...
The interim President of Guinea Bissau, Raimundo Pereira and Prime Minister Carlos Gomes were released by the country’s military junta and flown to Abidjan on Friday. The West Africa correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that ...
No fewer than 18 people were injured on Saturday afternoon when a commercial bus lost control and crashed into a pole at the Abuja city gate, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The bus, an 18-seater with registrati...
Dr Ore Falomo, the Chairman, Lagos State Medical Advisory Committee, has warned doctors in the state who are currently on strike that their action is ``a flagrant abuse of their professional calling’’. He told journalists in Lagos on Friday...
Six footballers were on Saturday arrested by the police for failing to observe the Environmental Sanitation stipulated by the Lagos State Government. The exercise is observed on the last Saturday of every month and it begins from 7 a.m. ...
A Consultant Gyneacologist, Dr Peter Adefuye, has called on the Federal Government to come up with an effective cancer control policy that will cater for cancer patients in Nigeria. He made the call at the beginning of the Cancer Awareness Campaign, or...
Prof. Emmanuel Ezeani of University of Nigeria, Nsukka, has urged the Federal Government to reposition the country’s local government councils to fast-track development at the grassroots level. Ezeani made the call on Friday in Ns...
Gov. Ibrahim Dankwambo of GombeState has assured the GombeStateUniversity community of adequate security. Dankwambo gave the assurance on Friday in Gombe, while reacting to Thursday's bomb blast at the SenateBuilding of the university. He...