The UN Security Council on Wednesday boosted by nearly one half an African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia. With this development , the council is seeking to press home a military offensive against Islamist rebels in the Horn of Africa country. A r...
Two new wild polio cases have been discovered in two Fulani settlements in Bukkuyum and Bakura local government areas of Zamfara, bringing the number of new cases to five in the state. Confirming the new cases in Gusau on Wednesday, the state Immunisat...
Prof Attahiru Jega, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says the commission would conduct a free, fair, credible and peaceful governorship election in Cross River. Jega gave the pledge in Calabar on Wednesday during an...
President Goodluck Jonathan, in this exclusive interview with JONATHAN POWER, a syndicated foreign affairs columnist and commentator, speaks on how his administration has succeeded in tackling corruption, especially on fertiliser procurement and distri...
In spite of the growing poverty in the country, some people have refused to stoop to the paucity of job in the country. Our correspondents, NANNA SELKUR AND ROSE OWOTA ADAH, tell a story on how some Nigerians are surviving. Day after day, they ignore t...
Alhaji Aliyu Wamakko has been sworn in for the second time as Sokoto State governor, Wamakko was yesterday sworn in a ceremony at the Trade Fair Complex in Sokoto metroplis, along with his deputy, Barr. Muktari Shagari. Wamakko, who emerged winner of S...
President Goodluck Jonathan and British Prime Minister, Mr David Cameron yesterday agreed to join forces with other friendly nations in the prosecution of the war against terrorism.Speaking when he met Cameron ahead of the London Summit on Somalia whic...
A 25-year-old married woman, Mrs Mary Haruna, who could not control her libido, especially on the last Valentine’s Day, has incurred the wrath of the law as she is to spend the next four months behind bars. An Upper Area Court in Gwagwalada in th...
Members of the House of Representatives yesterday rejected a move to amend the Electoral Act to provide for the extension of litigation period for election tribunal from 60 and 90 days to 180 and 240. The Bill, which was sponsored by the Deputy Minorit...
Report reaching Entertainment Rendezvous say that Nollywood actress Mercy Johnson, whose marriage is barely six months old, is under pressure from the family of her husband to give them the result of marriage (children). The sexy Ebira, Kogi State-born...
Three months after the explosion that rocked Kaduna, the victims of the blast yesterday disclosed the death toll at Oriapkata spare parts market. The victims, who put the death toll at 12, said they lost about N300 million worth of goods to...
Not fewer than 735 delegates will decide who among five aspirants will fly the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s flag for the July 14, 2012 gubernatorial election in Edo State. They are made up of 159 statutory delegates and 576 ad-hoc delegates w...
The Chief Justice of the Nigeria (CJN) and Chairman of the National Judicial Council (NJC), Justice Dahiru Musdapher, has given the judge of the Federal High Court in Benin Justice Adamu Hobon one month from February 10, 2012 to respond to a petition b...
Police in Ekiti State have recovered three stolen vehicles from a robbery syndicate allegedly headed by a pastor of a church in Ado-Ekiti. The Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP Operations), Mr Ududo Adat, said the pastor was arrested following a ti...
The Senate Committee on Federal Capital Territory on Wednesday in Abuja expressed dissatisfaction over Julius Berger’s failure to appear before it, saying that no company is superior to Nigeria. The committee had on Tuesday summoned 25 contractor...