The African Development Bank (AfDB), says the bank has not disbursed the N111 billion (700 million dollars) loan meant to support Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the country. The AfDB approved the loan in 2009 and it was supposed to be disbursed...
Voting commenced on schedule in most polling units in Yola in Saturday’s governorship election. Voting commenced at exactly 12.30 p.m. in most polling units in Yola as scheduled, with the exercise going on smoothly without any hitch. At Kof...
Gov. Patrick Yakowa of Kaduna State on Saturday urged Muslim faithful to pray for peace, unity and economic growth of the state in particular and the nation in general. Yakowa made the appeal at the 2012 Eid-el-Maulud worldwide annual annual celebratio...
No less than six political parties registered for the by-election into Soba federal constituency, Alhaji Yakubu Mohammed, Electoral Officer of the council, said on Saturday Mohammed told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Soba that the parties w...
The Mega Progressive Peoples Party (MPPP) says it will not replace Chief Oduduogwu Ogbotobe, its late candidate for the Bayelsa governorship election slated for Feb. 11. The Bayelsa Chairman of the party, Chief Isaac Eze, dropped the hint in a telephon...
With exactly six months to the London 2012 Games, the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) has handed over the Olympic and Paralympic Village site to the London 2012 Organising Committee (LOCOG). Four-time Olympic gold medalist, Matthew Pinsent, helped to ...
Members of the Amalgamated Market Traders Association of Anambra State (AMATAS) have warned that any more killing of Igbo indigenes in the North would be retaliated in the South- East. In an address of protest presented to the chairman of the South-Eas...
The Nigerian Customs Service and the Nigeria Union of Teachers have continued to disagree on the recent incident at the United Secondary School, Ijokodo in Ibadan, Oyo State, in which a teacher was allegedly manhandled by some armed customs men for dis...
The family of the commercial bus attendant, Mr. Rashidi Alabi, who was alleged to have been forcefully pulled down from a moving Volkswagen 14-seater commercial bus with registration number XZ 78 AGL by officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management A...
The people of Eastern Obolo, a coastal community in Akwa Ibom State have sent a passionate plea to both the state and the federal governments to come to their aid over the recent oil spill caused by a leakage at Total Exploration and Production Nigeria...
Holy Aruosa is a traditional religious and unique worship place where the Oba of Benin, Omo N’Oba N Edo Uku Akpolokpolor, Oba Erediauwa , his palace chiefs , family members including men and women of Bini origin commune directly with God. L...
Against the background of severe threats to the Nigerian Project, RUTH CHOJI sounds out key stakeholders who are unanimous that the bloody campaign of the Boko Haram sect must be caged - and quickly The problem of insecurity which used to be one of th...
If it is true that people who die suddenly, still hang around after their eyes might have been snapped by death, then Ibrahim Abutu is yet to give up. Abutu, a former staff of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), was murdered by an unknow...
Luck shines on a Lagos family, as their two-year-old son, Gift, who was kidnapped from school in Lagos, is found in Jos, the Plateau State capital. ACHOR ABIMAJE, reports. Their hope of finding him had since fizzled. In short, Alhassan Allamaimagani, a...
The bright future of a youth corps member, who was on his way home after his compulsory one-year national assignment, is put asunder following a ghastly accident that lands him in hospital. Three years after there is no sign of recovery, as he can neit...