The extremist sect, while claiming responsibility for Thursday's attacks, says more bombings are coming the way of the media. According to the Premium Times, the Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati Wal-Jihad, popularly known as Boko Haram, say...
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural development has secured N30 billion funding to support seed and fertiliser companies, according to the Minister, Dr Akinwunmi Adesina. Adesina disclosed this in Abuja at the Ministerial Platform organised to mark t...
The State Security Service (SSS) on Thursday pleaded with journalists in the country not to be intimidate by the recent wave of attacks targeted at them and their organisations. This is contained in a statement issued in Abuja and signed by Ms Ma...
ECOWAS has given 4.5 million dollars to Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger to enable them cope with refugee and displacement crisis caused by the rebellion in the north of Mali. This is contained in a statement from the ECOWAS Commission, made available to t...
The Enugu Command of the Nigerian Prisons Service has frowned at the increasing number of inmates awaiting trial in its prisons. Speaking in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu on Thursday, the command’s Public Relations O...
Mr Yemi Odusanya, the Regional General Manager, Access Bank Plc, Lagos, who was kidnapped on April 22 regained his freedom on Thursday after the family paid N25 million ransom. A reliable police source, who pleaded anonymity told the News Agency of Nig...
Gov. Adams Oshiomhole of Edo has urged South-South governors to adopt investment strategies that would translate to economic growth and development. Oshiomhole made the call in Asaba on Thursday at the second South-South Summit organised by the region....
The Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed May 22 to hear Sen. Bukola Saraki’s application to stop the police from investigating a N21 billion fraud allegation against him. Justice Gladys Olotu adjourned proceedings on the matter on Thursday due t...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Thursday in Abuja condemned the bomb blasts that rocked newspaper houses in Abuja and Kaduna, saying the attacks were ''tragic and cowardly''. The Secretary of the congress, Mr Owei Lakemfa, who said...
Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka has urged Nigerians to drop lingering clamour for national conference, saying it is no longer necessary in view of emerging democratic liberties. In place of the conference, he called for regional groupings, which would, rat...
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has approved a project worth 80-million-dollars for Nigeria, says Dr Akinwunmi Adesina, the Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development. Adesina disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja while ans...
President Goodluck Jonathan has reiterated his administration’s commitment to addressing factors militating against the implementation of revolutionary programmes in the South-South region. Jonathan, represented by Vice President Namadi Sambo, ga...
Sen. Mohammed Ndume, an alleged financier of the Boko Haram sect, has said the State Security Service (SSS) drafted `frivolous’ terrorism charges against him. Ndume’s counsel, Mr Rickey Tarfa, therefore, told the Federal High Court in Abuja...
The Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN) has advised the Federal Government to allow all states of the federation to be fiscally independent. The CITN Registrar, Mr Jayeoba Abayomi, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Thursda...
College students held demonstrations in several U.S. cities on Wednesday to mark the day total U.S. student loan debt was expected to reach one trillion dollars. Some of the demonstrating students burnt loan documents and others demanded a right to ``d...