As the ruling Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) won all the 20 local councils and 226 out of the 236 councillorship seats in the recent poll in Ogun State, the opposition is alleging foul play. The unfolding scenario is spawning considerable controversy...
The directorate of the State Security Service (DSS) in Kwara State yesterday paraded seven students of one of the Colleges of Education in the state over alleged abduction, rape, cultism, and for being in possession of fake currency notes. The suspects...
Praise the Lord! I began this message two weeks ago and took my text from Matthew 13:24-30, which deals with what is called the parable of the wheat and the tares (weeds), a parable told by Jesus. In verse 36 of Matthew 13, his disciples asked hi...
Mrs Nompumelelo Zuma, wife of South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma, arrived Yenagoa on Friday for a two-day working visit. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Zuma arrived the Bayelsa Government House at about 6 p.m. on a helicopter mark...
The First Lady, Mrs Patience Jonathan, says that her renewed tenure as President of the African First Ladies Peace Mission (AFLPM) will be devoted to strengthening peace building efforts in Africa. She gave the assurance on Friday, while speaking to ne...
Gov. Rochas Okorocha of Imo on Friday in Owerri appealed to the re-instated 27 local government chairmen in the state to come for a dialogue with him. Okorocha made the appeal after the council chairmen, who were recently re-instated by the Appea...
The crackdown on doping offenders in the run-up to the London Olympics has been a success, the President, International Olympic Committee (IOC), Jacques Rogge, said on Friday. Rogge said that this was after testers caught more than a 100 athletes using...
The Police AIG in-charge of Zone 9, Umuahia, Mr Solomon Olusegun, has described Anambra as one of the states that have the lowest crime rate in the country. Olusegun made the observation in Awka on Friday while speaking with newsmen after a visit to th...
Gov. Murtala Nyako of Adamawa on Friday appointed 50 special advisers and 37 development area administrators. Speaking shortly after the swearing-in of the political appointees in Yola, Nyako advised them to be committed to their duties. ``For the spec...
A slim ray of hope for the world's 34 million people living with HIV emerged this week at the International AIDS conference. Two studies presented in Washington and a third published in a journal involved the use of drugs or procedures that are alr...
Mr Miri Mamtur, the Registrar of the FCT High Court, Maitama, Abuja, is dead. One of his colleagues, Mr Vincent Ifeachor, who confirmed the death to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja, said that Mamtur, 48, died at the National Hospita...
Ameen Abubakar, 35, of Kurmin Mashi quarters, Kaduna, was on Friday arraigned before a Kaduna Sharia Court for allegedly kidnapping his three-year-old son, Khalifa. The complainant, Maryam Abubakar of the same address, told the court that Abubakar, her...
Yobe Government on Friday launched the sale of 12,000 bags of assorted grains to people at subsidised rate of N2,000 against the N8,000 price in the open market. Launching the programme in Damaturu, Gov. Ibrahim Gaidam, said the government procured the...
Transactions on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) closed positively on Friday as stocks of highly capitalised companies recorded price gain. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the All- Share Index at the end of trading appreciated by 176.21 ...
The Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order (ORO) said on Friday that it had arrested 26 suspected Boko Haram sect members during a raid in Maiduguri. Lt.-Col. Sagir Musa, the JTF spokesman stated this in a statement in Maiduguri. ``Following...