Amb. Kadré Désiré Ouedraogo, on Thursday in Abuja, assumed office as the new President of the ECOWAS Commission. He takes over from the immediate past president of the commission, Amb. Victor Gbeho of Ghana. Speaking at the handover ceremony, which ...
INEC on Tuesday tasked political parties to imbibe internal democracy and strengthen the polity. Alhaji Haliru Tambuwal, the INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner in Kaduna State, gave the charge during a stakeholders’ forum ahead of the Saturday ...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said on Thursday that it had prevented a Pakistani drug cartel from coming into Nigeria with 13kgs of heroin worth N120 million. The spokesman for the NDLEA, Mr Mitchell Ofoyeju, said this in a statement...
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) is working with the Police to ensure security in the country, Dr Ade Abolurin, has said. Abolurin, the Commandant-General of NSCDC, disclosed this while addressing newsmen on the International ...
A retreat in expectations for further monetary easing in Europe and the United States sent stock markets lower on Thursday. Meanwhile, the euro neared a one-week low ahead of a Spanish bond auction and the latest summit of EU leaders. China...
The Supreme Court on Thursday granted the CPC in Bauchi State a leave to amend its notice of appeal against the election of Gov. Isa Yuguda. The court further granted Alhaji Yusuf Tugar, the CPC’s governorship candidate in that election another l...
The House of Representatives on Thursday raised an eight-member committee to investigate alleged production, issuance and circulation of fake number plates in the country. The committee which is headed by the Minority Whip, Samson Osagie (ACN-Edo), is ...
Suspected Boko Haram sect members destroyed three more schools on Wednesday night in an ongoing assault on schools in Maiduguri. Some residents told newsmen that the schools were destroyed around 9 p.m. on Wednesday, in spite of the dusk to dawn curfew...
Last week, Lagos based Events Company -R28 Events officially announced plans to bring Bobby Brown and his former boy band to Nigeria. With the event just a week away, the question many fans and industry practitioners have been asking is “H...
Three men, said to be bricklayers lost their lives yesterday in Awka, Anambra State capital when a two-storey building still undergoing construction collapsed at about 11am, trapping 12 of its workers including the site engineer. Nine of the trapped wo...
President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Aminu Maigari has assured Nigerians that the Senior National Team, Super Eagles, will qualify for the 2013 African Cup of Nations to be staged in South Africa. Maigari spoke in Abuja as...
Coffee drinkers have no more risk of getting illnesses such as heart disease or cancer, and are less likely to develop type two diabetes, a German study said. The study involved more than 40,000 people over nearly a decade. The findings, published in t...
His love life has played out like a soap opera, but could it be possible that Eddie Murphy has finally settled down with singer Toni Braxton? Apparently so, because the Tower Heist star, 50 , and the voice behind the anthemic Un-break My Heart, 44 , &#...
A Gwagwalada Upper Area Court on Thursday ordered the remand of a 26-year-old trader, Samuel Nathaniel in Kuje Prison for raping a five-year-old girl. Alhough Nathaniel pleaded guilty, the judge, Mr Babangida Hassan, deferred sentencing to March ...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday arraigned the Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, for alleged corruption. Charged along with the speaker is his Personal Assistant, Oyebode Atoyebi. They are facin...