The House of Representatives will commence debate on the controversial issue of Islamic banking at its plenary session as soon as it concludes deliberation on its legislative agenda this week. A member of the lower chamber, Hon. Mustapha Dawaki Bala, w...
The Bauchi branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has said that it would no longer accept a situation whereby people awaiting trial would continue to languish in jail.“This will no longer be acceptable to the NBA, We will engage the authori...
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan yesterday bowed to the demand of the House of Representatives that he formally communicates to it the list of the 20 special advisers he had earlier sent to the Senate for approval. In a letter dated July 1, 2011, read...
Disturbed by the state of affairs within the Peoples Democratic Party, the PDP Transformation Network (PTN) and the PDP National Interest Group (PNIG) has called for the immediate resignation of the National Working Committee of the party. Speaking at ...
The senior United Nations official in Cote d’Ivoire, Ambassador YJ Choi has at the beginning of the week met with the country’s former President Laurent Gbagbo, who has been held under house arrest since April, promising him that the world ...
The Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Benin, Edo State, yesterday admitted in evidence ballot papers used for Ovia North East local government area of Ovia Federal Constituency in Edo State in the April 9, 2011, National Assembly election. Chairma...
Hon. Niyi Jones Akinyugha represented Idanre/Ifedore Federal Constituency of Ondo State but lost his return bid to the seventh House of Representatives. Speaking to journalists, including RUTH CHOJI, in Abuja recently, the environmental consultant reve...
It was drama at the FCT Magistrates’ Court, Wuse Zone 2 yesterday, as a middle-aged man convicted of stealing a mobile phone begged the court for leniency to enable him take care of his aged mother, who lives with him. The accused, Gideon Diogbe ...
The murder of Christopher Wallace has remained a mystery for years (14 to be exact) but that may have all come to an end after Clayton Hill, a former member of the Nation of Islam confesses to being an accessory to Dawoud Muhammad in the murder of The ...
Dressing is as old as man is and is part and parcel of human existence. There is no culture, tribe or race, nor religion that forbids dressing. Dressing is a central symbol of the group and society an individual belongs to; by one’s dressing, peo...
People lined up on the veranda of the American mission hospital here from miles around to barter for doctor visits and medicines, clutching scrawny chickens, squirming goats and buckets of maize. But mostly, they arrived with sacks of peanuts on their ...
There is plenty to explore for young men. Their make-up, grooming and awareness give room for plenty of adventure. And for every exploration and adventure there is a prize. It is believed that the prospect of having a woman as a reward of any adventure...
The most rewarding friendships are not the most glamorous of them. Neither is it a given that the most enriching of friendships are found in the least glamorou of circles. Giving too much to friendships also does not guarantee the best moments in frien...
The State Security Service (SSS) has said that it has made a headway in its bid to mitigate the menace of the militant Islamic sect, Boko Haram, with the arrest of key cell commanders of the sect along with over 100 other suspects in five northern stat...
The governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, yesterday said the apex bank has given approval-in- principle to Stanbic Bank to operate non-interest (Islamic) banking in the country. Sanusi, who spoke at an international confe...