Muammar Gaddafi’s daughter Aisha, who fled to Algeria with other family members on Monday, has given birth to a daughter, an Algerian government official announced yesterday. “Aisha gave birth very early this morning. She had a little girl....
Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of Kano State has called on security agencies to release members of the Yusufiyya Movement, popularly known as Boko Haram, and other members of religious groups who are currently in detention. The governor made the call in...
Transactions on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), yesterday further dropped by 2.2 per cent after some blue-chip stocks suffered huge loss in the prices of their shares.At the close of trading in the day, the twin market indicators, the market capital...
The leadership of Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions (ASSBIFI), the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) and AIICO Insurance Plc have declared that the Employees’ Compensation Act(ECA) was a comprehe...
Residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) yesterday defied the rains and the security concerns in the city as they thronged to recreation centres across the city to celebrate the Eid-el-Fitr feast.The large turn-out witnessed at the recreation c...
The Chief Imam of Dobi mosque, Alhaji Adamu Baba, has called for unity among Nigerians irrespective of tribe and religion to enhance peaceful co-existence.Baba who made the call in his sallah sermon at Dobi, near Gwagwalada, also called for prayers for...
Lepers in the Alheri Special Village, Koroko Yangoji, in Kwali area council, have made an appeal to the government to intervene and bring to an end the six year electricity problem in the village.The head of the village, Sarki Kutare, Ali Isa, made the...
Residents of Nyanya in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and Mararaba, a neighbouring town in Nasarawa State were thrown into happiness recently, when the Dunamis Church International, commenced the grading of Boundary Street Road.LEADERSHIP reports ...
The National Council for Women’s Societies (NCWS) has charged security operatives to work assiduously to put an end to acts of terrorism across the country.Condemning last Friday’s bomb blast at the UN House in Abuja, the National President...
The United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) and the Bank of Industry (BOI) have agreed to help fast-track the development of the country’s industrial sector in line with the federal government’s transformation agenda.UNID...
The Minister of State for Trade and Investment,Dr.Samuel Ortum, has said that the law establishing the Standard Organisation of Nigeria(SON) would be strengthened to give more powers to the organisation to effectively position it to fight the war again...
An Indian business delegation is to visit Nigeria and Ghana as part of an African tour in order to tap into the continent’s growing IT market which it said was headed for growth this year with market levels expected to reach $26.53 billion.The de...