Three regional organisations have signed landmark agreements to co-operate on practical steps to deal with the effects of climate change and to promote sustainable development at a Commonwealth event at the Rio+20 Earth Conference. The two memoranda o...
Nigeria skipper Joseph Yobo has prayed for a favourable draw in the qualifiers for the 2013 AFCON, while warning no team will be a pushover. The Fenerbache of Turkey defender told MTNFootball.com that: “I know the next round of qualifiers would n...
The US Department of State has listed Abubakar Shekau, Abubakar Adam Kambar, and Khalid al-Barnawi who are leaders of the Boko Haram sect as Specially Designated Global Terrorists under section 1(b) of Executive Order 13224. In a statement made avail...
Former Chelsea striker Didier Drogba has signed for Chinese club Shanghai Shenhua on a two-and-a-half-year deal. He will team up again at Shanghai with ex-Blues colleague Nicolas Anelka. Drogba, 34, said: “I considered all the offers I have...
The Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) says over N200 billion will be realised from the privatisation of the 18 successor companies created from the unbundling of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN). The information is contained in a stat...
The Nigeria Police will transform its Central Criminal Registry (CCR) operation from manual to e-Finger print to meet the global challenges. The Commissioner of Police in charge of CCR at the Force CID annex, Alagbon, Ikoyi, Mr Salau Olayinka disclosed...
The People of Zaria in Kaduna State have expressed concern over blackout in the last three days when some suicide bombers attacked the state. A cross section of people, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Zaria on Wednesday expressed reg...
Vice President Namadi Sambo on Wednesday called on Saudi Arabian investors to come and tap the various investment opportunities in Nigeria. Sambo made the call when he received in audience the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Pri...
Mr Bill Strassberger, Cultural Affairs Officer of U.S. Embassy in Abuja, has advised students applying for study visas to the U.S. to seek accurate information on such applications. Strassberger, who gave the advice at the embassy’s weekly studen...
The Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku, on Wednesday advised politicians against politicising President Goodluck Jonathan’s trip to Brazil for the United Nations’ summit on sustainable development. Maku gave the advice while fie...
Two women Elizabeth Adeh, 56 and Margaret Ekeng, 48, were on Wednesday arraigned before an Abuja Senior Magistrates' Court for fighting over a house. Adeh and Ekeng reside at block 2, flat 2, Gender Street, Wuse Zone 1. Prosecutor Abu Opanach...
Minister of State for Finance Yerima Ngama said on Wednesday that the Federal Government had spent N518 billion so far on fuel subsidy out of the N888 billion appropriated in the 2012 budget. The Minister disclosed this to the State House Corresp...
The United Nations and its partners have appealed for $1.6 billion to provide vital humanitarian aid to people in Nigeria, Niger and other crisis-stricken Sahel region of West Africa, revising their previous requests for funding in light of the dramati...
The South Africa's Department of Women, Children and People with Disabilities has condemned in the strongest possible terms the rape of a five-year old child from Limpopo. The department further reiterated its call to courts to impose the heaviest ...
President Goodluck Jonathan and more than other 100 Heads of State and government on Wednesday gathered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the start of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), seeking for ways to shape new p...