Amb.Vicki Huddleston, the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for in Africa, says that her country and Nigeria will strengthen ties in defence. Huddleston gave the assurance on Friday in Abuja when she paid a courtesy call on the Minister...
The N100 billion that the Delta State government recently borrowed from the Nigerian Stock Exchange for its development programmes has generated criticisms and counter claims by the opponents and supporters of the state governor. Kola Niyi-...
Some Islamic leaders in Lagos have called on the Senate not to entertain any debate on prostitution. The leaders said that any legislative process to legalise prostitution in the country was shameful, unreasonable and a celebration of immorality. The I...
As Nigeria celebrates this year’s World Standards Day 2011,the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) yesterday took its sensitisation campaign against substandard products to schools in the Federa...
The Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation is set to add colour to this year’s edition of the tourism market, Akwaaba, holding in Lagos from October 19-21, 2011. Accordingly, the corporation said in a statement that it would use the Akwaaba pla...
23 local government chairmen in Kaduna State have unanimously quashed the allegation levelled against them of a bribery scandal. In a statement, the Makarfi local government caretaker chairman, Alhaji Mohammed Garba Sabon Gari, who spoke unbehalf of hi...
For its high quality services and human friendly banking policy, as well as outstanding contributions towards human development and nation building, newly crowned Miss NGO Nigeria, Miss Judith Thompson Osumenya, has declared HASAL Micro-Finance Bank th...
President of the Licensed Customs Agents of Nigeria, Alhaji Shittu, says the pruning of eight government agencies from the ports by the Finance Ministry may force down prices of goods and services in the country by up to 20 or even 30 per cent.The fede...
The candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the April gubernatorial election in Akwa Ibom State, Senator John Akpanudoedehe suffered another legal defeat against his opponent, the Akwa Ibom State governor, Chief Godswill Akpabio as a Feder...
Mr Ogunjimi Abayomi, the immediate past chairman of Amuwo district of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), has advised Nigerians to stop corrupt practices.Abayomi made the call in an interview in Lagos recently. As far as he ...
The Kebbi State Pilgrims Welfare Board says it has put in place a rigorous pre-departure screening for intending pilgrims. Executive chairman of the board, Alhaji Usman Suru, said this on Thursday in Birnin Kebbi while speaking ...
Succour has finally come the way of about 1,400 identified orphans and vulnerable children in dire need of support, especially those infected with HIV/Aids and selected destitute across the 17 Southern states. The Global Fund on its round nine co...
The Senate Committee on Power, yesterday expressed its preparedness to partner with the Ministry of Power in ensuring that the various power plants in the country are repositioned to improve power supply to Nigerians. Chairman of the committee, Senator...
The Lagos State governor, Babatunde Fashola, has said that his administration is collaborating with the World Health Organisation (WHO) to bring more visibility to mental health care in the state. Fashola made the disclosure at the mental health ...
There are strong indications that actress Stephanie Okereke may have concluded plans to wed her heart-throb, Linus Idahosa in far away France, next year. Findings revealed that many of Steph’s friends have found it difficult to understand the cho...