The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved N27 billion as 50 per cent subsidy for the supply of fertiliser to rural farmers in 2012. The Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Akinwumi Adeshina, disclosed this after the Council meeting presided over by ...
Gov. Ibrahim Dankwambo of Gombe State on Wednesday lost his four-year-old daughter, Hajara, after a brief illness. A statement issued by the Permanent Secretary in-charge of Media, Alhaji Adamu Musa, in Gombe on Wednesday, said Hajara died in Abuja. Th...
The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) in Kaduna on Wednesday confirmed that 14 people were killed in an auto crash on the Kaduna-Abuja highway in the early hours of Wednesday, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The Public Enlightenment Offic...
Nigeria’s naira fell the most in almost a week after crude exporting companies reduced dollar sales and deployed their foreign-exchange reserves to pay for gasoline imports, leaving banks short of the U.S. currency. The currency of Africa’s...
Nigerian forces swept through the remote northeast on Wednesday, searching houses for suspected Boko Haram militants after killing four in a gun battle, the military said. The crackdown on the group in its heartland of Maiduguri followed a spate of att...
The Minister of Education, Prof. Ryqayyatu Rufa’I, has called on investors to partner with the Federal Government to create an enabling learning environment in the country. Rufa’I made the call on Wednesday in Abuja at the First Worldview E...
The Senate on Wednesday accused aviation regulatory authorities of laxity and mandated its Committee on Aviation to investigate discrepancies in international air fares between Nigeria and other African countries. This followed the adoption of a motion...
Nollywood actor, Fred Amata, was on Wednesday ordered by a Surulere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos to pay one year rent arrears amounting to N600,000 to his landlord. Amata was dragged to court in September 2010 by his landlord, Pa I. Fadoyeb...
The indigenes of FCT have appealed to the Federal Government to review the FCT Land Act, which is not in favour of the indigenous people. Mr Solomon Shekwolo, Chairman of Gbagyi Youth Movement (GYM), made the appeal in Abuja on Wednesday in a statement...
Traditional rulers in Edo North senatorial district have rejected the planned zoning of the position of deputy governor to the area by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The monarchs said they had given their support to the incumbent governor, Mr Adam...
Volume of shares traded on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) dropped by 37.5 per cent on Wednesday as 253.92 million shares worth N2.42 billion were traded in 4,181 deals. This was in contrast to the 406.29 million shares worth N 3.11 billion exc...
The Federal Government has promised to assist the Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) towards a successful outing at the 2012 London Olympic Games. The Supervising Minister of Sports, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, made the pledge on Tuesday in Abuja during the ...
Schalke have activated the purchase clause in Chinedu Obasi’s loan contract from Hoffenheim, securing the attacker’s signature until 2015 for the sum of €5 million. The 25-year-old becomes the second player to agree a move to the Royal...
Nigeria’s Super Eagles will face Iran’s national football team, the Persian Stars in an international friendly pending ratification from the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). The game has been provisionally fixed for April 18 in Tehran, Ir...
Efforts to resuscitate the moribund Nigeria’s railway system by the current management of the Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) are already yielding results despite obvious challenges. NRC’s managing director, Engr. Adeseyi Sijuwade, in thi...