The Nigerian Air Force is to embark on joint defence venture programme with local and foreign corporations to attract more economic prosperity to itself and the country. This is contained in a communiqué issued at the end of a seminar titled ``Effecti...
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has congratulated Nigeria’s international midfielder, John Mikel Obi, over the UEFA Champions League victory. Obi’s club, the English Premiership team, Chelsea defeated the Germany’s Bayern Munich...
The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said that the volume of gas currently flared in the country has dropped from 19 per cent in December, 2011 to 14 per cent in January. This is contained in the latest edition of its online Mont...
Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the former Libyan intelligence official who was sentenced to life in prison in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, has died, the Libyan government said on Sunday. He was 60. The bombing of the Dec. 21, 1988 Pan Am flight from...
Mr Bulus Dabit, the General Manager, Plateau Radio Television Corporation (PRTVC), says leaders’ attitude of abandoning the electorate, immediately after election, is responsible for the general apathy to voting. Dabit, who made the observation i...
No fewer than 30 PHCN wooden and concrete poles were destroyed by windstorm in Makurdi on Friday night. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the PHCN poles were destroyed by the windstorm that was preceded by rain, which only lasted 30 minutes...
The controversies from Members of the National Assembly over the proposal to establish the Nigerian Diaspora Commission and to ensure Diaspora Voting Rights for Nigerians living abroad may have been laid to rest as officials used the just concluded ann...
Fatima Hassan, a 44 year old Nigerian woman who was also the co-owner of a Detroit-area physical therapy company has been sentenced to 48 months in prison for her leading role in a more than $1.9 million Medicare fraud scheme, the Department of Justice...
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg updated his status to 'married' on Saturday afternoon. Mr Zuckerberg and 27-year-old Priscilla Chan tied the knot at a small ceremony at his home in Palo Alto, California, capping a busy week for the cou...
Sen. Sahabi Ya’u, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Land Transport, said on Sunday that the Western Rail Line would be fully operational before the end of the year. The rail line is expected to connect Lagos, Ibadan, Jebba and Kaduna to Kano, whi...
The House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts has decried inadequate funding of the office of the Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF). Chairman of the committee, Rep. Solomon Adeola (ACN-Lagos), said in Abuja on Sunday that corruptio...
The former presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Prof. Peter Nwangwu, says the Immunity Clause in the 1999 Constitution should be removed because ``it has done more harm than good''. Nwangwu told the News Agency of Ni...
Four persons were injured early on Sunday morning at the Amike-Aba area of Abakaliki following a clash between a local vigilance group and jubilant fans of Chelsea FC of England. The fans were celebrating Chelsea’s first-ever Union of European Fo...
It’s a painful situation, seeing your friend being mistreated by her man and yet she can’t see it because the “love bug” has blinded her. That’s why it’s unsettling to see a good friend in a bad-dating situation. Lik...
Alhaji Umaru Dikko, a key voice of the northern political establishment was transport minister under the Shehu Shagari presidency in the Second Republic. Off the political radar for some time now, the astute politician has signaled his intention to ret...