In pursuit of quality education for Nigeria’s teeming students, Baze University whose motto is ‘Learn, to Live’ yesterday in a well-attended ceremony matriculated its second batch of students. The occasion was graced by former head of...
For the benefit of those who appear ignorant about the business of journalism and newspapering, we advise that troubled government officials should face their problems squarely and not pick a quarrel with the newspaper. This advice has been prompted by...
At least 20 people including a serving police officer and his family members were feared killed in Barkin Ladi local government area of Plateau State following renewed violence that broke out Wednesday night between the natives and Fulani herdsmen.&nbs...
The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) has said that the present administration lacks the blueprint to salvage the nation’s economy, saying that there is the need for President Goodluck Jonathan to wake up to the responsibility of meeting the ...
President Goodluck Jonathan has congratulated former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar on his 65th birthday today. In a letter of felicitation which he personally signed and released to Atiku Media Office in Abuja yesterday, Jonathan pray...
President Goodluck Jonathan has described the former Premier of the defunct Northern Region and the Sardauna of Sokoto, the late Sir Ahmadu Bello, as a man whose outstanding life was worthy of emulation. Speaking at the 35th ann...
President Goodluck Jonathan has received commendation from members of the Anambra State House of Assembly over his plans to commence a pilot scheme for uninterrupted power supply in Nigeria using seven states as a test case. The lawmakers also expresse...
The Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly has expressed displeasure over an alleged lopsided employment policy of construction companies, Julius Berger and CCECC. The House claimed that the employment policies of these companies were skewed against indigen...
The people of Odeligbo Okpuitumo in Izzi Local Government Area, were on March 25, 2011 thrown into confusion when the news broke that one Mrs. Rosemary Akpu allegedly poisoned her husband, Mr. Daniel Akpu, in order to retain her boy friend. The late Ak...
A High Court sitting in Ikeja has ordered the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to pay popular comedian Babatunde Omidina aka Baba Suwe the sum of N25 million for unlawful arrest and detention. The ruling was given on Thursday by Justice Yet...
The police have arraigned a 24-year-old man, Tunde Alade, before the Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan for having sex with a six-year-old girl. The News Agency of Nigeria( NAN) also reports that the prosecutor, Foluke Adedosu, told t...
Worried by the state of the Sokoto-Yauri-Kontagora-Ilorin road, the House of Representatives has urged the Federal Ministry of Works to rehabilitate and dualise it within the shortest possible time in line with the already completed engineering d...
UN Secretary-General, Ban ki-moon, has congratulated Nigeria and Cameroon for implementing the ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the dispute over the Bakassi peninsula. Ban said this at a joint meeting with Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Co...
Nine persons have been confirmed dead in different road accidents that occurred in Jattu in Estako West local council and Aduwawa in Ikpoba Okha local council of Edo State. Six persons reportedly died in the Aduwawa accident while three die...
A workshop on effective Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) for media professionals has commenced in Lagos. The three-day workshop is organised by Thistle Praxis Consulting, a management firm which among other things, assists organisations and ...