Former Blackburn striker Yakubu scored on his Chinese Super League debut to help Guangzhou R&F seal a 1-0 victory over local rivals Guangzhou Evergrande on Sunday. The Nigerian, who sealed his move to the club just last week following...
The Special Task Force (STF) maintaining peace in Plateau has said that the evacuation order given to some communities in Barkin Ladi and Riyom local governments is based on `military necessity’. The STF on Saturday ordered the inhabitants of fiv...
Trade between Nigeria and France has reached the 7.3 billion dollar mark, according to French Ambassador to Nigeria. In his remarks at a ceremony to mark the 222nd French National Day in Abuja on Saturday night, de Labriolle said the figure was more th...
A man has been arrested by security agents in connection with an explosion near a church at Obehira, Okene, Kogi. The Kogi State Police Command spokesman, Mr Ile Simon, who confirmed the arrest in Lokoja on Sunday, said that the suspect was driving in ...
Against the background of raging corruption in the polity, Mallam Yusuf Olaolu Alli, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Suggests death penalty for proven cases of graft involving public officers. In this interview with ABDULLAHI OLESIN he also disagree...
Gov. Adams Oshiomhole of Edo on Sunday described President Goodluck Jonahan as a statesman and a man of honour. Oshiomhole, who made the statement at a world press conference in Benin, attributed the peaceful conduct of the governorship election in Edo...
President Goodluck Jonathanon on Sunday congratulated Gov. Adams Oshiomhole of Edo on his re-election in Saturday’s governorship polls. In a statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr Reuben Abati, Jonatha...
Niger Government on Sunday re-affirmed its commitment to providing free education and empowering the youths to contribute more positively to national development. Prof. Muhammed Yahaya, Chief of Staff to the state governor made the remark in an intervi...
The current security breaches in the North have been described as the major threat to the continued implementation of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme. Gov. Theodore Orji of Abia State made the remark during a dinner organised in honour o...
The Edo Governor, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, has assured the people of Edo that he would not disappoint them in his second term. Addressing a crowd at Ring Road in Benin on Sunday, Oshiomhole said his victory in the Edo governorship election was an indicatio...
Mr Thomas Okosun, the Edo Chairman of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), has commended President Goodluck Jonathan for not interfering in the just concluded governorship election in the state. Okosun in an interview with newsmen on Sunday in Benin a...
The Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), has urged the incoming Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Aloma Mukhtar to rebuild the waning confidence in the nation's judiciary. Mr Gbenga Adefaye, President, NGE, made the call on Sunday in an interview...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Sunday said it has arrested a South African woman with substance suspected to be methamphetamine worth N15 million. A statement signed by the agency's Head of Public Affairs, Mr Mitchell Ofoyeju, ...
The Minister of Works, Mr Mike Onolememen, has said that it is up to PDP and its candidate in the Edo governorship election to react to the outcome of the contest. ``As an Edo citizen, I have performed my duty in the election by voting’&rsq...
The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), South East Zone, has urged Nigerians to live in peace and respect one another. NSCIA in a statement after a meeting with the Nigeria Inter-Religious Council (NIREC) in Abakaliki, condemned the r...