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Muslims across all groups converged at National Mosque, Abuja on Monday to offer prayers for the late Dr AbdulLateef Adegbite, former, Secretary-General, Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA). Adegbite died on Friday Sept. 28, during a br...
President Goodluck Jonathan says Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), driven mainly by non-oil sector, has grown by 7.1 per cent, while the economy attracted N6.8 trillion investments in nine months. Jonathan, who disclosed this in his 52...
The Environmental Right Action and Friends of the Earth, an NGO, has attributed the incessant flooding in Nigeria partly to gas flaring by oil companies. Mr Chima Williams, the Head of Legal Resources of the organisation, told the News Agency of Nigeri...
President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday in Abuja, inaugurated a newly formed 176 Special Forces Battalion, adding to the existing 177 and 7 battalions of the presidential guards brigade. The guards brigade is a special unit of the military specifically c...
Beloved countrymen and women, on this day, fifty-two years ago, our founding fathers brought joy and hope to the hearts of our people when they won independence for our great country. Nigeria made a clean break with more than six decades of colonial ru...
Senate President David Mark on Monday in Abuja urged Nigerians to reenact the indomitable spirit of the founding fathers who envisaged a united, peaceful and prosperous nation in 1960. Mark made the appeal at a special church service to mark the 52nd I...
Gov. Jonah Jang of Plateau on Monday said that Nigerians’ belief in nationhood was the first step in the efforts toward greatness. ``We are on a journey which also comes with challenges, but we must remain resolute and optimistic a...
The Minister of State for FCT, Ms Olajumoke Akinjide, has urged Nigerians and residents of the FCT to remain committed to the unity and progress of the nation. This is contained in a statement issued on Monday in Abuja by Mr Oluyinka Akintunde, the Spe...
President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday in Abuja re-assured the victims of flood disaster across the country of Federal Government’s assistance. Jonathan gave the assurance in his 2012 Independence Day national radio and television broadcast, and s...
President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday reassured Nigerians of better days ahead, saying Nigeria would continue to be a source of pride to its citizens, to Africa, and to human race. Jonathan, who was speaking in a nationwide 52nd Independence Anniversar...
Normalcy is gradually returning to Mubi in Adamawa, following the security beef up to contain the killing and destruction of communication masts in the town. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the security beef up facilitated a cla...
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Umar Manko, says the absence of sustainable logistics and over centralisation of police administration has impacted negatively on the ability of the police to meet set goals. Manko made the remark in...
Some Lagos based lawyers say Nigeria's 52nd Independence anniversary call for a sober reflection, especially by the elite, on how to ensure sustainable democracy. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the lawyers, who spoke i...
The Kwara State Governor, Alhaji AbdulFatah Ahmed, yesterday, described Nigeria as a land of hope and unlimited potentials. In his message on the nation’s 52nd independence anniversary, the governor said that as the most populous country in Afric...
Gov. Peter Obi of Anambra has called for collective efforts toward the restoration of social and moral values as well as the projection of role models to emulate. Obi made the call during the burial of the former Deputy Governor of the old An...