Mr Vincent Ohizu, the Secretary-General of the Berthing Meeting of the Nigerian Port Authority, on Monday commended the ports concession programme and its positive impact on the economy. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ohizu made commenda...
Dr Dumebi Owa, President, Medical Women`s Association of Nigeria (MWAN), Lagos State branch, on Monday, said malaria killed over 300, 000 people every year in Nigeria. Owa disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in La...
No fewer than 5,000 people from two communities of Koloware and Aven in Patani Local Government Area of Delta have been rendered homeless, as flood submerged their homes. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that East/West Road has been converted i...
President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday in Abuja tasked the new Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Adm. Ola Ibrahim and the three service chiefs on national security and rising incidences of crude oil theft. The president set the task when he decorated ...
If putting the names 2face Idibia and D’banj in the same sentence just gives you chills, then get ready to have a seizure, as the pop giants say they recently recorded a collabo. During a BEAT FM interview last week, the pair disclosed tha...
Not known to be flippant when it comes to making promises, Super Eagles boss, Stephen Keshi, momentarily threw that to the winds when he assured Nigerians and especially Governor Liyel Imoke of Cross River and the people of the state that the na...
There are indications that the United Nations once pursued a plan that would have seen Nigeria administer the disputed Bakassi Peninsula for not more than 20 years before handing it over to neighbouring Cameroon. According to Premium Times, the proposa...
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird today announced that he will travel to Nigeria, Austria and France from October 8 to 12, 2012.
Leaders of the Nigerian community in the United States yesterday met with Information Minister, Labaran Maku, to seek support of the Federal Government for the annual independence anniversary street parade in New York. The rally,which hold...
The Deputy Governor of Operation of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Tunde Lemo, Mr. Rundheersing Bheenick, Governor, Bank of Mauritius; Felix Bikpo, CEO, African Guarantee Fund; H.E. Stuart Comberbach, Ambassador of Zimbabwe to Japan and Dean of ...
The Ogun Police Command on Monday held a meeting with representatives of more than 40 communities and interests groups on how to effectively police the state. A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), who observed the meeting...
The police on Monday arraigned Sunday Chukwu of Area 2, Garki, Abuja, before an Abuja Upper Area Court on four counts of conspiracy, force, hurt and theft. Police prosecutor Ambi Ayuba alleged that the accused conspired with four military men and three...
A popular Nollywood producer, Ifeanyi Onyeabor, on Monday urged an Ikeja High Court to dismiss the N8.8 million theft charge preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Onyeabor’s counsel, Mr F.H. Awalah, made th...
The US-Nigeria Infrastructure Conference, a mega summit that will involve who is who in the world will begin at the Washington Marriot Wardman Park Hotel, Washington DC on Wednesday. According to the Nigeria's Ambassador to the United States...
A commercial motorcyclist, Baba Ibrahim, 24, was arraigned over an alleged manslaughter on Monday in Lagos. Ibrahim appeared at a Surulere Magistrates' Court, which did not take his plea because he claimed he did not understand the English language...