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...
The Plateau Government has introduced a dress code for the state's civil servants to guard against what it termed ``improper and immodest” dressing at work places. The government also threatened to sanction workers who failed to comply with t...
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday in Abuja approved a new draft policy on housing aimed at producing an average of one million housing units annually. Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku, made this known to State House correspondent...
Gov. Rauf Aregbesola of Osun has called on governors in the South West Zone to pool their resources together to provide regional aerial surveillance in order to check incursion into the region. Aregbesola made the call in Ibadan while delivering ...
Gov. Idris Wada of Kogi on Wednesday launched the direct sale of kerosene at N50 per litre to the people of the state. Wada said at Felele, a suburb of Lokoja that the move was to end the harrowing experience the people go through to get the product. H...
The Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) says it will soon start sending drilling engineers for training at the French Institute of Petroleum in France. Mr Kalu Otisi, PTDF, Head of Media, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Monda...
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has criticised President Goodluck Jonathan for embarking on a trip to Brazil for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development at a time Nigeria is facing what amounts to a national emergency, as citizens continue to...
The Acting Director General of National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure, Dr. Muhammad Haruna has said that the present administration was poised to ensure steady power supply in the country. Dr. Haruna stated this while receivin...
Two ladies, all bearing the name Florence (surnames withheld), one of which is a student of the Benue State University, Makurdi, have been confirmed dead after taking gentamicin 280mg injection. According to the Director General of the National Agency ...
Seven people,among them four fake pastors are in police custody in Lokoja,for attempting to defraud some people during a revival programme in the state. The pastors are Bishop Bamidele Abraham of Eagle Kingdom Church, Lokoja, Pastor C...
Gunmen yesterday, in Makurdi, attacked and collected the sum of N500, 000 from Mr. Samuel Ejembi, husband to the Benue State correspondent of The Sun Newspaper, Mrs. Rose Ejembi. LEADERSHIP gathered that the dare devil robbers, four in number, th...
An Ogun State High Court sitting in Ilaro, the headquarters of Yewa South Local Government Area, yesterday, ruled that the Bayo Dayo led faction of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has the authority to nominate and submit list of candidates f...
Osun State Governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola has advocated for the overhaul of the judiciary for effective and quality justice delivery and noted that there would not be civilization if there was no justice in the land. Speaking yesterday at a one -da...