The Bauchi State chapter of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), has warned its suspended chairman, Alhaji Shehu Barau Ningi, to stop parading himself as chairman of the party. The care taker chairman of the party, Aliyu S. Abubakar, ...
The Governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Anayo Okorocha has banned the open display and transportation of meat in the state. He handed down the directive after an unscheduled inspection of meat vans in Owerri. Governor Okorocha said that the health of ...
Irked by the recent bombing of innocent Nigerians in Kaduna and Yobe States during the Easter celebrations, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Chief Mike Ahamba has attributed the persistent attacks by the Boko Haram sect to a lack of commitment on th...
The Northern States Governors’ Forum (NSGF) has lamented the tragedies that occurred during the Easter celebrations in three States of the region that claimed 36 lives in Kaduna and 22 in Makurdi. The Governors expressed their regret at the suici...
Lagos State Government yesterday lamented Federal Government’s non- refund of the sum of N59 billion it expended on repairs of federal roads in the state. The Lagos State Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, who disclose...
A three – month old baby and the parents have been reportedly kidnapped by armed men in Effurun, Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State. Reports indicate that the victims were abducted on Monday while leaving their home located around Oru Sta...
The management of Olokola Free Trade Zone (OKFTZ) Enterprise has said the investment would attract N30 billion dollars (N4.73 trillion) in the next three years. Mr. Luk Haelterman, Managing Director, OKFTZ, who disclosed this to newsmen in Lagos, said ...
Transactions on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange yesterday re-opened on a downward slope after the two-day public holidays to commemorate Easter celebration, as investors leveraged on the upward movement of stocks last week to take profit. At t...
The pan-African conglomerate-Dangote Group-is offering automatic employment to First Class graduates of Kano University of Science and Technology, Wudil, a statement said. Seven students of the university graduated with First Class in the last academic...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), on Tuesday arrested four suspected drug traffickers, including two men who ingested 124 wraps of liquid cocaine sealed in condoms. Mr Mitchell Ofoyeju, NDLEA spokesperson, said in a statement issued in ...
Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik was sane when he killed 77 people last summer in attacks he saw as punishing “traitors” who favoured immigration, a psychiatric team on Tuesday said. This was contained in a report contradicting an ear...
President Goodluck Jonathan said on Tuesday in Sokoto that his administration was committed to providing quality education for the 9.5 million Almajirai children. Jonathan stated this at the inauguration of the first Federal Government-owned Almajiri M...
Civil servants in Oyo State on Tuesday resumed in their various offices following the suspension of the strike declared by the NLC in the state on April 5. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the state secretariat and ...
Four Chinese passengers and two French pilots were killed when their helicopter crashed in an oil field in southeastern Niger last week, authorities told AFP on Tuesday. The accident occurred in the Diffa region on Friday as the helicopter was on its w...
The United States President, Mr. Barrack Obama, through the Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, Ambassador Johnnie Carson has described the Boko Haram sect as a frustrated group. Stating this in his Keynote address during the event organized...