A total of 390 slots have been allocated to intending pilgrims from Ondo State for this year’s holy pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina. The Secretary of Ondo State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board, Raji Yusuf, told the News Agency of&n...
Anxiety has gripped Plateau lawmakers over bribery allegations against its Public Accounts and Petitions Committee which is investigating the protracted feud between workers and management of the Jos MTN call centre. The committee is investigating acti...
Gov. Peter Obi of Anambra State on Friday in Awka swore in a new Secretary to the state Government and 12 commissioners with a warning to shun personal gain and enrichment. The new Secretary to the State Government, Mr Henry Obaze, who replaced Chief P...
The Nasarawa State Community and Social Development Agency, plans to disburse N126 million to 14 communities across the state for various micro projects. The General Manager of the agency, Mrs Asibi Omeri-Ogabo, told the News Agency of Nigeri...
The Department of Justice executed a forfeiture order Thursday on $401,931 in a Massachusetts brokerage fund traceable to an allegedly corrupt former Bayelsa State governor, DSP Alamieyesigha. The forfeiture was the first victory for a fledgling...
Godwin Chiedo Nzeocha, 45, a naturalized United States citizen originally from the Federal Republic of Nigeria, has been returned to the United States to stand trial in a $45 million health care fraud case, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson annou...
Sen. Bukola Saraki, says state creation should not be the priority on issues to be considered in the constitution review. Saraki, who is representing Kwara Central Senatorial District in the Senate, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nig...
Mr Nseobong Akpabio, Lagos Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), said on Thursday that road accident had killed more Nigerians than HIV and AIDS. Akpabio made the remark during a courtesy visit to the Comptroller of Customs, Federal Opera...
No fewer than 300 Lagos-bound train passengers were stranded in Abeokuta on Thursday following an early morning down pour which washed away the rail track at Lafenwa. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the rain, ...
President Goodluck Jonathan has said that power supply in Nigeria will be among the best 20 in the world in the next eight years. The president gave the assurance on Thursday in Lagos at the 40th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Manufacturers Associatio...
The House of Representatives on Thursday called on DANA Airline to pay 171 dollars being 30 per cent compensation to the families of the victims of the recent crash. The House in its resolution in Abuja said the compensation became necessary in l...
A female Army officer and three other personnel of the Oyo State Security Outfit, ``Operation Burst,’’ on Thursday died in a ghastly motor accident on the UI-Sango Road in Ibadan, the state capital. The incident, which involved ...
The Abuja NNPC mega station on Thursday said it had no kerosene to sell because of the curfew imposed in Kaduna State following the recent attacks on churches and reprisals by Christian youths. The station has had no stock of the product for almost a w...
Unknown assailants on Wednesday killed Mr John Daring, PDP Chairman in Sharubutu Ward of Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau. Also killed by the attackers, who struck at Rim, a village in the area, were Daring's wife and their child. ``The name ...
The total value of shares traded by investors on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) dipped by 94 per cent on Thursday as 160.38 million shares worth N1.014 billion were traded in 3,208 deals. This was against 4.5 billion shares valued at N17...