The National Council of Women Societies (NCWS) on Saturday commended President Goodluck Jonathan for making the 2013 budget proposal gender-friendly. The National President of the council, Mrs Nkechi Mba, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu ...
No fewer than three births were recorded at the flood victims’ camps located in Asaba, an official of Red Cross Society, Mr Francis Agarivie, announced on Friday. Agarivie, who is the Secretary of the Nigerian Red Cross in Delta, told the News Ag...
Some passengers at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, has hailed the Federal Government plan to grant airline operators’ zero tariff on importation of aircraft and spare parts. They told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in separate intervi...
Gov. Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta has advised parents to ensure safety of children, especially on road, as a way of protecting them from road accidents. Uduaghan gave the advice in Asaba on Friday at the launching of N300 million for Children Accident Pr...
Seven days after four students of the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) were killed by an irate mob in Aluu in Ikwere local government area of Rivers State, the community yesterday broke its silence on the matter. The community denied that its memb...
A 20-year-old girl identified as Lucy was shot on the chest at Apo, Abuja yesterday by one of the security personnel in the company of the Abuja Development Control who stormed the area for a demolition exercise. She was rushed to Garki Hospital, where...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday expressed shock at the level of destructiondone by flood in some communities in Anambra State. He told the victims that the Federal Government had initiated measures to resettle them when flood water recedes. The P...
The European Union (EU) has been named the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for its unique role in uniting the continent. The award is seen as a morale booster for the bloc which struggles to resolve its debt crisis. The EU has been a key in transformin...
The current power play in Adamawa State took its first casualty yesterday as the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on behalf of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party sent its national vice chairman, No...
Governors Umaru Tanko Al-Makura of Nasarawa State, Patrick Yakowa of Kaduna State and his Ekiti State counterpart, Kayode Fayemi, yesterday joined some ministers from Nigeria to woo United States’ investors into the non-oil sector. Al-Makura, who...
Governor Babangida Muazu Aliyu of Niger State has said there is a strong link between some key members of Boko Haram and Islamic group, Daru-Salam, based in Bokani, Mokwa local government area of Niger State. The members were allegedly dislodged ...
The immediate past Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Oluseyi Olusegun Petinrin yesterday cautioned military against coup since there is no political solution is in their hands. He made the clarion call in Abuja at the pulling out parade to mark his retireme...
Over 2,500 Nigerian fishermen displaced at the ceded Bakassi Peninsula yesterday protested over alleged rape of their women, homelessness, harassment and inability to fish on the waterways. The protesters made up of former natives of the ceded oil-rich...
The Vice Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Prof. Abdullahi Mustapha, has tasked alumni, stakeholders, friends and members of the university community to donate to the N50 billion endowment funds to be launched during the forthcoming G...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has uncovered some choice property allegedly owned by former Bayelsa State Governor, Timpreye Sylva. Sylva is being prosecuted by the anti-graft agency before a Federal High Court in Abuja on a six-co...