The Chairman of Niger State Hajj Commission, Mallam Mamman Mohammad has said that the commission would make it mandatory in this year’s hajj for husbands to write an undertaking that their wives are free of pregnancy before they would be allowed ...
A United States citizen kidnapped by gunmen in Delta State has returned to Georgia after being held captive for a week. Tamara Lane says her brother-in-law William Gregory Ock arrived in Atlanta on Sunday morning. The 50-year-old was kidnapped on Jan. ...
Sen. Liyel Imoke, the flag bearer for the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the April 14, 2012 gubernatorial election in the state has been presented with the Independent National Electoral Commission of Nigeria (INEC) nomination form. Presentin...
Novak Djokovic confirmed his place at the top of men's tennis by outlasting Rafael Nadal in a five-set epic to retain his Australian Open title. The world number one edged an gripping battle against with the second seed 5-7 6-4 6-2 6-4 6-7 (...
There are indications that Africa will need at least $12billion from now to 2015 to respond to issues of HIV/ADIS. This amount is $4billion higher than the current spending in the region. This hint was given by the United Nations Joint Programme on HIV...
Spokesperson of the Boko Haram sect, Abul-Qaga, told journalists in a telephone exchange in Kano last night, that Sokoto State will be their next target following arrest and imprisonment of their members. Abul-Qaga said: “You should avoid replica...
Mrs Helen Enahoro, widow of the late Anthony Enahoro is dead. She passed on in Lagos on Saturday, at the age of 79. LEADERSHIP gathered that Mrs Enahoro had a protracted battle with cancer. The widow died only a year and a month after her husband, the ...
Benin President Thomas Boni Yayi was elected the African Union Chairman on Sunday, taking over the one-year post from Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, officials said. "I want to congratulate the new chairman of the African ...
Gunmen have shot dead a policeman in Kaduna State, police said on Sunday. The policeman was shot dead by two armed men on motorcycles in the Rigasa area of the city, said Kaduna state police commissioner Ballah Nassarawa. "We lost a policeman to t...
The Africa Nations Cup kicked off last weekend in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon with a lot of promise and hope. Big guns like defending champions Egypt, Nigeria, Cameroon, South Africa and Algeria did not qualify for the continental showpiece prompting a...
Saidu Dauda, a 24 year-old national of Niger Republic had come to Nigeria in search of greener pastures. The precarious economic situation and the long drought that devastated farms and livestock had forced a lot of young people to leave the country. D...
Enugu State is richly endowed with both human and natural resources. CHIKA OKEKE who undertook a tour of the mysterious Nnya lake recently, reports. Enugu state is a haven for tourists. The Polo fields, Nike Lake among others are tourist’s sites ...
Monetary Policy Rate (MPR), otherwise known as benchmark interest rates will not be raised when the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meets for the first time this year as a result of the first round of inflationary effects from the removal of fuel subsi...
At last, the highly respected Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye has broken his silence over the incessant attack on Christians, their homes and places of worship by the Boko Haram, an Islamic sect in the North Eastern part of the country. Several homes and ...
NASA has announced its new heavy-lift launch vehicle that is to provide an entirely new capability for human exploration beyond Earth’s orbit. The Space Launch System (SLS), NASA says, will provide the Earth with a safe, affordable and sustainabl...