The Director-general of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Brigadier General Maharazu Tsiga has directed that all corps members serving in Borno state be deployed immediately due to the security situation in the state. The Director General stated ...
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday fixed July 19 to take the plea of five police officers accused of unlawfully killing former leader of the Boko Haram sect, late Mohammed Yusuf. Those charged to undergo the trial are J.B. Abang, Akeera, and Ma...
Royal Dutch Shell yesterday said it had lifted a force majeure on Bonny Light crude oil loadings which was declared on June 13, 2011, due to leaks and fires on its Trans-Niger Pipeline. A Shell spokesman in Nigeria confirmed that the force majeure, (wh...
The House of Representatives yesterday unanimously adopted a resolution urging the federal government and the three affected unions to continue negotiations on the outstanding issues. The Non-Academic Staff of University (NASU); Senior Staff Associatio...
Piqued by the problem of flooding, which recently displaced many families in the Lagos metropolis, Lagos State governor Mr. Babatunde Fashola has ordered the immediate demolition of a church built on a drainage channel in Bariga area of the state. Fash...
50 Cent has been dumped by his model girlfriend Daphne Joy. The word on the street is, Daphne saw being with 50 Cent as a way to jump start her acting career. She figured since 50 owns a movie production company, he would throw a few movie roles her wa...
At a point in one’s life, an individual, usually due to age, has to quit the daily activities that had been putting money in his pocket over the years. The individual is now said to have retired – it`s the point at which a person stops empl...
Hard work, they say, bears excellent fruits. Recall that a few weeks ago, Interval published a feature on Corporal Hudu Isah, an extraordinary civil servant who controls traffic at the Wuse Zone 7 junction in Abuja with so much passion. Well Corporal I...
The Lagos State Government has dragged former Director-General of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, Prof.Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke, Alhaji Lance Musa Elakama and six others before a Lagos High Court over an alleged theft of N3, 301, 000, 000. The suits before Jus...
The effects of last Sunday’s heavy rain has caused the death of two people when a building located at Agbado area of Ogun State collapsed. According to sources, the affected persons were Toyin Ogidi (57) and Idowu whose surname was not know...
As torrential rain and massive floods continue to ravage the Lagos metropolis, the state government has raised the alarm over weakened wires of Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), and said that the firm’s snapping wires had made the city uns...
The Joint Task Force constituted by the permanent secretary (FCT), Dr. Biodun Nathaniel Olorunfemi, has disclosed that it demolished a section of Dei-Dei, near the cattle market, for security reasons. Speaking through the deputy director monitoring and...
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senator Bala has approved the immediate dissolution of the boards of all parastatals and agencies under the FCT administration. This was contained in a statement signed by the chief press secretary to th...