Australia’s ruling Labour party has backed gay marriage, although Prime Minister Julia Gillard is against it. BBC reported yesterday that the party’s national conference also endorsed Ms Gillard’s amendment to allow a free vote on any...
Iranian diplomats expelled from London in retaliation for attacks on British compounds in Tehran have arrived home. According to a Skynews report, roughly two dozen diplomats and their families returned on an Iran Air charter flight. But 150 hard...
The euro zone will once again serve as the source of Wall Street’s angst, as investors look to a summit of the region’s political leaders for decisive solutions for the ballooning debt crisis. Reuters reported on Friday that Stocks posted t...
The AMR Corporation on Friday, made a voluntary filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganisation, but said it expected to continue operations normally. Skynews reported American’s chairman and chief executive, Gerard Arpey also stepped down, and A...
The US unemployment rate tumbled to a 2-1/2 year low in November, even though the pace of hiring remained too slow to suggest a significant acceleration in the labour market recovery.In a report by Reuters, nonfarm payrolls increased by 120,000 jobs, t...
Agriculture used to generate about 60 per cent of Nigeria’s labour force. A mainstay of most nations, it is said that any country that cannot feed itself is an impoverished land. Countries like Somali, Sudan and others are sustained by the United...
Vice President Namadi Sambo yesterday described corruption in in the country as a cancer which had been frustrating government’s efforts towards uplifting the quality of life of the people. He vowed that government would fight the cankerworm to a...
Former minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mal. Nasiru el-Rufai yesterday buried his eldest daughter, Yasmin at the Gwarimpa cemetery in Abuja after the body was flown in from London where she died earlier in the week. The immediate past secreta...
The court of Appeal sitting in Makurdi,yesterday dismissed the appeal filed by Major Lawrence Onoja of the Action Congress of Nigeria(ACN) against senate President David Mark of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP). Onoja had appealed against the decision...
Disturbed by the large number of Nigerians without access to safe drinking water, the House of Representatives Committee on Water Resources has called on the Federal Government to give priority to the provision of potable water in the country as it is ...
The Acting Rector Maritime Academy of Nigeria Oron, Mr. Joshua Okpo has been commended for putting in place necessary facilities in ensuring that the institution becomes one of the best in the world. The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Transpo...
It was like a full blown war yesterday night at London Chiki area of Maiduguri Metropolis, when the dreaded Islamic extremists, known as Boko Haram launched another round of attack on the Joint Task Force (JTF) which resulted to face to face shoot out....
The Edo State Governor Comrade Adams Oshiomhole says in a bid to stimulate productive activities, enhancing sustainable livelihood, improving human welfare and boosting economic growth in the state through investment in physical infrastructures, a tota...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday gave the nod to the request by Alhaji Yusuf Suleiman to resign from office as Minister of Sports to enable him contest for governorship poll in his state. A statement by the president’s spokes man, Dr. Reuben...
Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies (SSAEAC) has called on the Inspector General of Police (IG) to as a matter of urgency intervene in the invasion of office of Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) and its beating of t...