A campaign targeted at reviving and improving the reading culture in Nigeria, the 100 Book Challenge Nigeria has been launched in Abuja. The campaign, a private initiative is aimed at encouraging Nigerian children to read 100 books over the course of a...
The National Bureau of Statistics last week announced that inflation rate rose to 12.9 per cent in April, year-on-year, driven largely by non-food items, sending interest rates on bonds and interbank borrowing on an upswing. The figure compared with a ...
The British High Commission (BHC) has renovate sports facilities in Government Secondary School Tudun Wada, Zone 4, Abuja. This is part of the organisation’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Speaking at the event yesterday, the British High...
The delay in the release of funds to the three tiers of government by the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) has further worsened the liquidity situation in the financial system, further increasing inter-bank lending rates last ...
The Nigerian Air Force is to embark on joint defence venture programme with local and foreign corporations to attract more economic prosperity to itself and the country. This is contained in a communiqué issued at the end of a seminar titled ``Effecti...
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has congratulated Nigeria’s international midfielder, John Mikel Obi, over the UEFA Champions League victory. Obi’s club, the English Premiership team, Chelsea defeated the Germany’s Bayern Munich...
The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said that the volume of gas currently flared in the country has dropped from 19 per cent in December, 2011 to 14 per cent in January. This is contained in the latest edition of its online Mont...
Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the former Libyan intelligence official who was sentenced to life in prison in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, has died, the Libyan government said on Sunday. He was 60. The bombing of the Dec. 21, 1988 Pan Am flight from...
Mr Bulus Dabit, the General Manager, Plateau Radio Television Corporation (PRTVC), says leaders’ attitude of abandoning the electorate, immediately after election, is responsible for the general apathy to voting. Dabit, who made the observation i...
No fewer than 30 PHCN wooden and concrete poles were destroyed by windstorm in Makurdi on Friday night. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the PHCN poles were destroyed by the windstorm that was preceded by rain, which only lasted 30 minutes...
The controversies from Members of the National Assembly over the proposal to establish the Nigerian Diaspora Commission and to ensure Diaspora Voting Rights for Nigerians living abroad may have been laid to rest as officials used the just concluded ann...
Fatima Hassan, a 44 year old Nigerian woman who was also the co-owner of a Detroit-area physical therapy company has been sentenced to 48 months in prison for her leading role in a more than $1.9 million Medicare fraud scheme, the Department of Justice...
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg updated his status to 'married' on Saturday afternoon. Mr Zuckerberg and 27-year-old Priscilla Chan tied the knot at a small ceremony at his home in Palo Alto, California, capping a busy week for the cou...
Sen. Sahabi Ya’u, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Land Transport, said on Sunday that the Western Rail Line would be fully operational before the end of the year. The rail line is expected to connect Lagos, Ibadan, Jebba and Kaduna to Kano, whi...
The House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts has decried inadequate funding of the office of the Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF). Chairman of the committee, Rep. Solomon Adeola (ACN-Lagos), said in Abuja on Sunday that corruptio...