Fresh facts emerged yesterday as to why youths of Bonny, in Bonny Local Government Area of Rivers State, home to the nation’s biggest crude oil terminal and the multi-billion dollar Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) facility, are poised for a conflict ...
Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday told the president of Niger Republic, Mahamadou Issoufou, that the sub-region would not accept a coup in that country. Jonathan, who was reacting ...
The federal government has tasked all permanent secretaries, directors and other management staff of civil service to step up their efforts in building capacity of its entire workforce on effective application of Information Communication Technology (I...
The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is presently awaiting the clearance of the national headquarters of the party to determine whether or not to participate in the forthcoming local government elections in the state scheduled ...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Asaba, Delta State, has arrested 32 suspected drug addicts in possession of 120.2kg of cannabis and psychotropic substances. The state command’s spokesman, Mallam Ibrahim Mohammed, told newsmen ...
The police yesterday detonated a bomb at Unguwan Ngas in Yelwa, Bauchi Metropolis said to have been planted near a gutter in the area. A resident of the area, who pleaded anonymity, said that ‘’ I saw the bomb at about 6.am near the area wh...
Senator Joseph Waku has blamed Senate President David Mark for the alleged marginalisation of the Tiv nation by the President Jonathan administration, calling the senator a tribalist,. Speaking in an interview with our correspondent in the State of Mar...
Wearing compression stockings might help people suffering from a common sleep disorder, claim researchers.They found sufferers who wore thigh-high stockings for a week cut their sleep problems by a third.People with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) frequ...
A good night’s sleep to some Americans has become a matter of life and death causing symptoms of high blood pressure, and sleep apnea. In addition, experts say many motor vehicle accidents can be linked to some variety of sleep disorder. Accordin...
Mindless snacking is a problem for many a weight-watcher who can find they have polished off a box of chocolates while they are distracted by the TV.Now scientists have developed a device they say will help people to pay more attention to what they con...
If mum and dad were born in the same town, their children are slightly shorter on average than the kids of parents with far-flung origins, a new study finds.The researchers think the reason boils down to genetics: Parents originating in very different ...
The state of many once thriving industries in the South East now moribund has been blamed on the unfriendly attitude of the state governments, ranging from government’s multiple taxation to poor patronage of their products to outright abandonment...
With one week to the August 15 expiration of the deadline given by the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), to importers to take fake and substandard products out of circulation, tension is mounting. Our Special Correspondent, IKPO IGBINOBA who has...
In line with its new mandate, the new Ministry of Trade and Investment is set to introduce Performance Measurement Scheme (PMS) to measure the productivity of its workers. Minister of Trade and Investment, Olusegun Aganga,disclosed...
Mixed feelings greeted the decision of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to nationalise three banks in Ekiti State as customers grappled with change of managements in the affected financial institutions. A visit to the branches of the three affected ba...