The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Abubakar, has debunked the findings of a recent survey by the CLEEN Foundation which claimed that armed robbery incidents increased by six per cent between 2010 and 2012. Abubakar, who, yesterday, r...
First Lady Dame Patience Jonathan has urged her fellow first ladies to leave their comfort zones even as she advocated for peaceful means of resolving differences in the society. She warned that if nothing was done, the future would be bleak. She made ...
One of the leading telecoms in Nigeria, MTN, has faulted the inaccurate and biased reports in some national newspapers on Thursday, 26 July, 2012, which alleged that its officials recanted their position on the ownership of two lines linked to the elec...
The Action Congress of Nigeria has described the legal tussle between the incumbent First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan and her predecessor, Hajiya Turai Yar’a dua over a juicy plot of land in the Federal Capital territory as a study in despicable...
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, said it would adopt dialogue in the resolution of the impeachment crisis between the House of Representatives and the Presidency. Sequel to the perceived inability of the Federal Government to implement the 2012 budget as...
The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Thursday recorded a downward trend for the third consecutive day following slight price losses by some blue chips, dropping marginally by 0.05 per cent. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the All-Share In...
Rihanna and Chris Brown don’t feel like they have to hide in international waters. A source on the yacht of Malaysian billionaire Taek Jho Low with RiRi and Brown Sunday evening in Saint-Tropez says the former couple were kissing in plain sight o...
Wife of the Borno Governor, Nanna Kashim Shetimma on Thursday blamed the socio-economic downturn in the state on the activities of Boko Haram. Shetima made this known in an interview with newsmen at the ongoing 7th summit of the African First Ladies Pe...
The Commissioner for Information and Strategy in Imo, says the State Government has no plan to sack workers in the state. Offor was reacting to speculations that the State Government had finalised plans to sack 500 workers of two state-owned tertiary i...
Nigeria First Lady Dame Patience Jonathan on Thursday said Africa’s negative image of war and violence must change to a peaceful and developing continent. Jonathan made this known in Abuja on Thursday in her opening address at the 7th Summit of t...
Seven-year-old Samu Danjuma was John Yakubu's neighbour's child in Nasarawa. Yakubu was said to have lured the little boy to a forest where he beheaded him and dumped his body in a stream. Yakubu then took his head to Ishaya in Abuja who promis...
There has been renewed emphasis on condoms during the ongoing 19th International AIDS Conference in Washington DC this week as a campaign promoting their use and availability has been re-launched during the event, with the distribution of 850,000 condo...
Refugee rights organizations in Cape Town are breathing a sigh of relief following a high court judgement that will force the Department of Home Affairs to reverse a policy of not accepting new asylum-seeker applications at the region's only Refuge...
Three policemen lost in Bauchi state lost their lives on Thursday when unknown gunmen opened fire on them at a patrol centre along Bauchi Gombe road. The gunmen who were said to have attacked the security officers around 8:49 am also carted away the th...
Owners of hotels, gardens and parks have complained of low patronage by members of the public as Ramadan fast enters the seventh day, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Mr Kola Oladapo, Manager of Step Down Arena, Federal Civil Service Club, tol...