The national leaders of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) converged on Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital, yesterday to seek the support of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in a bid to realise their drive for a mega merger of all opposition ...
Director and Country Representative, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Joseph Ngu has said that 3.1 million Nigerians currently live with the HIV virus. He also said that of this, 67 percent Nigerian youth accou...
Edo State Governor, Adams Oshomohle, has said that the prescription of staff sack in the civil service by the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, as a way to cut down on the high cost of governance in the country was w...
A meeting by the House of Representatives Committee on Public Petitions to deliberate on a petition received from the Managing Director of Capital Oil and Gas, Mr. Ifeanyi Patrick Uba over the non-payment of his N20 billion fuel subsidy claims was, yes...
His Eminence, John Cardinal Olurunfemi Onaiyekan says his elevation as cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI in a consistory is an act of God. Receiving former EXCOs of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) who paid him a courtesy visit in Abuja yesterday, On...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission says it is yet to arrest the Chairman of Bi-Courtney Limited, Dr Wale Babalakin (SAN) as the latter is still on admission at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, Lagos. A credible ...
Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Emeka Ihedioha yesterday challenged Nigerians to encourage the young ones to shun corruption and other social vices in all their endeavour. The lawmaker, who made the appeal during a public presentat...
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Azubike Ihejirika, yesterday, said that the recent changes at the Jaji Cantonment had no religious coloration but purely military routine. The leadership of the Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI) had earlier criticised th...
The Vice President, Arc Mohammed Namadi Sambo, yesterday in Kaduna, condoled former Head of State, Major Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) over the death of his eldest daughter, Hajiya Zulaihatu Buhari. Vice President Sambo who was at Gen Buhari’s Kadu...
Ad-Hoc staff who were recruited by the State Independent Election Commission (SIECOM) in the just concluded local government elections into the 23 local government areas of Kaduna State, yesterday besieged the SIECOM office over non payment of their en...
The House of Representatives yesterday developed seeming cold feet on its earlier summon on President Goodluck Jonathan to appear before a closed session of the House over terrorist activities and related cases of insecurity in parts of Nigeria. The Ho...
The next teachers training nationwide which is to be conducted by the National Teachers Institute will be met with stiff resistance until the outstanding balance of N11,500 owed them in the last exercise is paid. This was revealed by the national presi...
Syria's deputy foreign minister on Thursday said he feared Western countries were voicing concerns over his country's possible use of chemical weapons to lay the ground for intervention, in spite of Damascus saying it would not use them. Faisal...
The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) says it has sealed six companies for allegedly defaulting in remitting taxes to the tune of N17.9 million. Mrs Folasade Coker-Afolayan, the Head of its Enforcement Unit, told the News Agency of Nigeria (N...
All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) on Thursday decried the condition of prison inmates in the country. The party described the condition of the inmates as `worrisome,’ and that it needed urgent attention for the betterment of the country. The ...