The Department of State Security Service, SSS, Niger State has raided a fake National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, orientation camp in Bosso area of Minna, the State Capital, arresting the coordinator , kenechukwu Osinomumu and 34 parti...
As part of its effort to reduce the high rate of accidents on the nation’s roads, the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) has insisted that all drivers of commercial vehicles would undergo a series of medical tests before being issued the new d...
Dream Team V coach, Austin Eguavoen has said he takes full responsibility for Nigeria’ bad performances at the ongoing CAF U-23 Olympic Games playoffs holding in Morocco. The Nigerian Olympic team lost two consecutive matches against Morocco and ...
Barely months after a community in Guri local government area of Jigawa State was persuaded by authorities to turn from its defiant resistance against polio vaccine for many years, another community, Garbagal, in the same local government, is presentin...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has denied fixing December 31, 2011 as deadline for Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) card registration saying until the ongoing harmonisation between operators and the regulator was completed, th...
Katsina state House of Assembly has directed its committee on agriculture to liaise with all relevant stakeholders to find a lasting solution to clashes between farmers and Fulani pastorialists in the state. The directive came barely three weeks after ...
Kourtney Kardashian is pregnant with baby number two. The 32-year-old reality star has revealed that she is just nine weeks into her second pregnancy. Kourtney and partner Scott Disick, 28, already have a son Mason, who turns two on December 14. In a s...
In the book, How Much Land Does a Man Need, Leo Tolstoy laments the futility of materialism. If the book was a parable of 19th century Russia, the stark interpretation of that parable may be found on No.1 Vattern Street, off Amazon Street, Maitama, Abu...
Lawmakers yesterday queried the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Precious Gbenol, on why the office spent N25 billion out of N54 billion earmarked for the execution of constituency projects in the 2008 a...
The Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) Mrs. Rose Uzoma yesterday told Senators that the service have deported 25 Chinese men over possession of irregular residents permit. She made the disclosure to the Senator Dahiru Kuta-l...
The European Union and United States have jointly urged the Federal Government to implement the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report on the cleaning-up of polluted Ogoniland. They also called on the government to pass the Petroleum ...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday urged Nigerians to patronise bread made from cassava, demonstrating this resolve by eating the product even as he added that he has been eating and will continue eating the product till he leaves the Presidential V...
SSS Arrests 7 For Sending Threat SMS -To forestall potential attack, the Congress of the United States (US) has set up a panel to look at the likely threat which the dreaded Boko Haram sect poses to its security. This is coming just as experts are lobb...
Barely four weeks to the end of the year, the House of Representatives yesterday did a turnaround on their refusal to grant President Goodluck Jonathan approval for the virement of N98.4billion in the 2011 budget as the bill unanimously scaled through ...
The corpse of ex-Biafran leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu will remain in London until the conclusion of arrangements for his burial. National chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) Chief Victor Umeh dropped the hint while s...