Nigeria and the United States yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that would enable independent power producers in the country to access up to $1.5 billion facility to purchase equipment and services from the United States. The facilit...
President Goodluck Jonathan has dissolved all federal government boards and parastatals. To this effect, he has inaugurated the Committee on the Composition of the Boards of Federal Government Parastatals chaired by Vice-President Namadi Sambo. Jonatha...
In a bid to address the rising wave of kidnapping and hostage-taking across the country, members of the House of Representatives have taken steps to prescribe death by hanging as a penalty for the crime in Nigeria. The lawmakers took this decision duri...
Yoruba movie actor, Babatunde Omidina aka `Baba Suwe' is planning to file a N1 billion suit against the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) over his recent arrest and detention. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that `Baba Su...
The Minister of Power, Prof. Bart Nnaji, has ordered the immediate release of letters of promotion to all categories of Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) workers in Enugu Zone. A statement, signed by Mr Greyne Anos...
The First Lady, Mrs Patience Jonathan, has urged Nigerian female parliamentarians to sponsor bills that will address specific issues that concern women. Speaking at a dinner in honour of female parliamentarians on Tuesday in Abuja, she urged ...
MC Loph’s fiancée, Nkiru Orji has been discharged from Imperial Hospital having recovered partially from the injuries she sustained in the fatal auto crash that wasted the rap artiste, his only sister and cousin. According to sources, &ld...
Muscleman, turned movie star, turned California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is returning to the movies. He's on the New Mexico set of "The Last Stand," playing the starring roleas a small town border sheriff. The a...
A Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday fixed December 6 for further hearing in a suit by the suspended president, Court of Appeal (PCA), Justice Isa Salami, and at the same time ruled that all the preliminary objections filed by all the respondents be...
Mother of the 25 year-year old student, Victor Emmanuel, shot dead on Sunday by a trigger-happy policeman in Bayelsa State, Mrs. Grace Victor, yesterday relieved the gory details of the tragedy.Pensively, she said that her son’s dream of particip...
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola yesterday named the new Igbogbo scheme 11 housing estate Ikorodu, after the late member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Rotimi Shotomiwa.He said the need to immortalise the late lawmaker who repres...
The minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senator Bala Mohammed, has attributed the high rate of road crashes in the city to the poor driving attitude of drivers and indiscipline.The minister said this yesterday when he flagged-off the ...
The Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) yesterday struck out a petition by the senatorial candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Alhaji Tanko Abari, against the election of Senator Philip Ad...
The National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP) has joined its counterparts all over the world to mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (IDEP).Speaking at the opening ceremony, the Senior Special Assistant to the President (SSAP)...
The Federal Government has given flour millers in the country a three-month ultimatum to commence the 10 per cent substitution of cassava flour for wheat flour being imported into the country.The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Akinwu...