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Families of the six Ijaw youths allegedly killed by soldiers last year along the waterways of Agge Community in Ekeremor Local Government area of Bayelsa State yesterday appeared before the Military Panel, declaring that the youths were murdered in a j...
In 2009, the Niger state government conceived the idea of building a five-star hotel in Minna, the state capital. The government is said to have spent N500 million on the project so far. The hotel according to the government was to be sited in Mi...
The recent devastating flood which affected some parts of Kwara state seems to be a blessing in disguise for the affected communities going by the way the state government intends to deploy the N300m intervention fund approved for the state by the Fede...
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo — Rebel fighters, singing and brandishing weapons, pulled out of Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern border city of Goma on Saturday, raising hopes regional peace efforts could advance negotiations to e...
MEXICO CITY — The party that ruled Mexico for seven decades returned to power Saturday with a president from a new generation to govern a country that has changed dramatically in the 12 years since the Institutional Revolutionary Party last...
The Lady Chauffeur Training Scheme (LCTS) initiated by the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan under her pet project, Women for Change Development Initiative in partnership with the National Directorate for Employment (NDE) for 200 women in the Federal ...
The take-off of the Hydro Power Producing Area Development Commission (HYPPADEC) is now enmeshed in the murky waters of Nigerian politics. The intrigues centred around the percentage of derivation rights to affecting states and the growing demand to in...
Last Sunday’s twin-bomb explosions at St. Andrew’s Protestant Church at the Jaji Military Cantonment, Kaduna, has led to the removal of the heads of the two institutions located in there. No fewer than 17 persons were confirmed dead from th...
The commissioner of Police, Bayelsa State Command, Mr. Kingsley Omire, has announced the existence of a list of 150 persons including politicians and ex-militant leaders suspected to be sponsors of some dreaded cult groups and violent crime...
When the leadership of the Nigerian Army met last week in Asaba, Delta State capital, only two issues were placed before the military top brass; the insecurity in the land and the welfare of officers and men of the force. BAYO OLADEJI, who was at the c...
Rafael Benitez’s unhappy start as Chelsea manager continued as his side crumbled against West Ham, while Manchester City were forced to settle for a point against a dogged Everton side. Arsenal slipped further off the pace as they were beaten at ...
Maria Sharapova is looking to return to the No 1 spot in the world rankings after returning to top form this year. Sharapova has endured a difficult few years after undergoing shoulder surgery at the end of 2008, but has come back brilliantly and brief...
It appears as though former Nigeria international, Samson Siasia, has not settled his issues with the Nigeria Football Federation. News monitored revealed that he told supersport.com that the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) never wanted him as head c...
Lagos State Commissioner for Sports, Waheed Enitan-Oshodi, has said that the only feasible threat to Team Lagos are Teams Rivers and Delta. According to him, Team Lagos came prepared. Lagos State had so far won two gold medals in Judo and Taekwondo at ...
President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday, declared that the Federal Government had the political will and commitment to sustain the progress so far made in combating HIV and AID scourge in the country. He made this declaration at the Special Session for...