UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson on Tuesday stressed the importance of global efforts to cut off funding for terrorism while upholding respect for human rights and the rule of law. ``If they are prevented from getting funds, their capacity to c...
Chelsea have sacked Roberto Di Matteo following the 3-0 defeat to Juventus on Tuesday evening which left the club's prospects of qualifying for the Champions League knockout stages hanging by a thread. The Blues needed a positive result in Turin to...
Elder statesman, and the pioneer Chief Commissioner of the Public Complaints Commission, Alhaji Maitama Sule has reiterated his belief in the future of Nigeria, saying he is optimistic that the nation will rise again. Maitama Sule said this while givin...
The Senate Committee on Federal Character and Inter-Governmental Affairs were told yesterday that a whopping N1, 305, 292, 050 billion had been set aside in the 2013 budget for refreshment, meals and other miscellaneous expenses in the State House. Eve...
The Supreme Court yesterday dismissed the two petitions filled by the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and its gubernatorial candidate, Mr. Markus Gondiri, chall for lacking merit. Consequently, the Justice Clara Ogunbiyi-led five-man panel of the apex...
The Senate yesterday urged the Federal Government to name the Illorin International Airport after the late senator and Kwara State top politician, Dr. Olusola Saraki. The upper chamber, after paying glowing tributes to Dr Saraki via a motion sponsored ...
As the Glo Golf Tour enters its second day at the IBB Golf and Country Club in Abuja, foremost Nigerian professional golfer, Emos Korblah, has said that his eyes are on the ultimate prize. “I am participating to win the tournament. We have a lot ...
The ongoing Abuja Glo Golf Tour has produced its star prize winner. He is Mohammed Yahya Liman of the IBB Golf and Country Club Abuja who is the Hole-in-One winner. He played it at Hole 8 winning Glo’s Toyota Corolla car prize. Reacting to ...
The National Sports Commission (NSC) appeal for support for the renaissance of the country’s sports sector after the dismal performance of Team Nigeria at the London Olympics Games has received a huge boost, as Akwa Ibom State government has vowe...
Gov. Theodore Orji of Abia on Tuesday presented the 2013 budget of N134.14 billion to the state House of Assembly for approval. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the budget has an increase of N4.188 billion representing 3.2 per cent over th...
Mr Olusegun Aganga, the Minister of Trade and Investment, said in Abuja on Tuesday that Nigeria was set to remove tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade to enhance intra-African trade and regional integration. Aganga announced this at the commemoratio...
Former Head of State Yakubu Gowon, and a frontline nationalist, Alhaji Maitama Sule, on Tuesday urged Nigerians to support the Federal Government’s war against corruption. The duo made the call in Abuja at a seminar organised by the FCT Public Co...
Mr Epowei Charles, the Area Comptroller, Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMI) Customs Command, said on Tuesday that it has arrested a passenger, Onwuekwe Chidi, with over US $320,000. Charles made the revelation in a news statement made availab...
Nigeria will contribute 600 personnel to the proposed 3,200 African troops soon to be deployed to Mali, the Minister of State for Defence, Mrs Olusola Obada, said in Abuja on Tuesday. Obada announced this when the British Prime Minister’s Special...
Dr Dalhaltu Tafida, Nigeria's High Commissioner to the UK on Tuesday said plans were on to establish a Consulate outside London. Tafida, told the Western Europe Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in an interview in London that the co...