Executive Secretary National Human Rights Commission, Professor Bem Angwe, has observed that 70 percent of inmates in Nigerian prisons have no business there because they are awaiting trial. He made this observation in Sokoto, yesterday, at a sensitisa...
Stakeholders in the rice milling and distribution chain in Nigeria have raised an alarm over what they described as increasing wave of smuggling of the commodity into the country, worth as much as N1.7billion monthly. The stakeholders, who spoke under ...
Sunshine Stars of Akure head coach, Samuel Abimbola has expressed optimism that the team would surely pick a ticket to play in the continent at the end of the 2012/2013 Nigeria Premier League season kickoff soon. Speaking ahead of the preseason t...
In this interview with DONATUS NADI, Nasarawa State Governor, Umaru Tanko Almakura, speaks on how the nation’s governance is not serving the common man well. He also discusses the contentious issue of retirement pension, saying it has...
The National Chairman of Nigeria Beach Volleyball Federation, Engr. Musa Nimrod has fingered low patronage in the sport as the reason for its slow growth. He stated that until the government and relevant authorities concerned see sport as a viable econ...
Former minister of education, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili has charged sports administrators in the country to stop politicizing the sector if Nigeria must regain its lost glory in the world of sports. Speaking at the public presentation of TEAP FC, an Abuja bas...
Encomiums continue to pour in for the Golden Eaglets after their qualification for the 2003 African Under-17 Championship in a fashionable manner on Sunday with a 4-0 aggregate win over the Junior Eagles of Mali in Bamako. In fact, the Golden Eagles we...
There is palpable uproar in the family of the late Biafran leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. The bone of contention has been how best to share the property left behind by the former war lord. The quarrel started shortly after the burial of...
As the nation continues to grapple with challenges of insecurity in parts of the country, children, under the aegis of Children’s Government of Nigeria, have united in prayer for God to rid the nation of the security woes bedeviling it. The child...
Aquaculture has gained so much attention and investment because of the decline in the catch from the ocean, an increasing world population with rising per capital consumption, the demand for animal protein has continued to increase hence the need to ap...
The Social Development Secretariat of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), through its social welfare department, in collaboration with a non-governmental organisation(NGO), Public Health and Community Development Centre (PHCDC), ...
In order to develop Nigeria’s information and communication technology (ICT) sector to meet global standards and best practice, the Federal Government is expected to introduce local content in the curriculum of educational institutions in the cou...
The Chief Executive of Nigeria Communications Satellite Limited (Nigcomsat), Engr. Timasaniyu Ahmed-Rufai, has allayed fears by stakeholders that the passage of the NigComSat Corporation Bill will suffocate private sector operators. Ahmed-Rufai said th...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that his country would finance the total cost of Turkey's first nuclear power plant. Putin spoke in Istanbul following talks with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan, with trade ties and energy featu...
Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush is in stable condition in the Texas hospital where he has been undergoing treatment for complications related to bronchitis. The hospital however gave no release date for discharging the former republican presiden...