Nigeria’s Yakubu Adesokan has taken gold for Nigeria in the men’s -48kg powerlifting with a world record lift of 180kg. Adesokan was a full 10kg ahead of silver medallist Vladimir Balynedc of Russia, while Taha Abdelmagid of Egypt claimed b...
Nigeria have won their way into a second successive FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup semi-final with a hard-fought 1-0 extra-time victory over a resilient Mexico in Tokyo, Japan
The out-going President, Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr Joseph Daudu (SAN), on Thursday criticised the plan by the Central Bank of Nigeria to introduce N5,000 notes. In a speech in Abuja at the Annual General Conference of the association, Daudu sa...
Yakubu Adesokan of Nigeria this afternoon bettered his World Record set in qualifying to take the first Powerlifting gold of the London 2012 Paralympics Games in the Men’s 48kg with a lift of 180kg.
The Federal Government has designated Anambra as an oil-bearing state in the country. President Goodluck Jonathan made the pronouncement on Thursday while inaugurating Orient Petroleum Resources Plc at Aguleri-Otu in the Anambra East Local Govern...
Telephone subscribers in the country want the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to address the incessant fabricated Short Message Service (SMS) making the rounds. Chief Deolu Ogunbanjo, President, National Association of Telecommunications Subsc...
A 100-year-old driver lost control of his car outside a Los Angeles school and injured 11 people, including nine children, the television station NBC Los Angeles reported. Four of the children were reported to be in critical condition after Wednesday&#...
No fewer than 2,000 students may be deported from Briatain after the government stripped a university of its right to admit foreigners. London Metropolitan University has had its Highly Trusted Status (HTS) for sponsoring international students revoked...
Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) on Thursday in Abuja urged the Federal Government to consider State Police in the ongoing constitution review. The National Publicity Secretary, Mr Rotimi Fashakin, who said this in an interview with the News Agenc...
The U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Terence McCulley, on Monday in Abuja said his country had supported Nigeria with a grant of 500 million dollars in the fight against HIV/AIDS and other related diseases since 2005. McCulley said this at the inaugurati...
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) on Thursday said that 100,000 pilgrims would be transported to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, for the 2012 Hajj. Dr. Harold Demuren, Director General, NCAA, made the disclosure in Lagos in an interactive session with ...
Giuliana and Bill Rancic announced that they feel 'blessed beyond words' to have become parents for the first time. The couple welcomed their son Edward Duke Rancic into the world on Wednesday evening, via a surrogate mother. Bill tweeted: &quo...
Holly Madison, the former Playboy model turned reality TV star turned Vegas headliner, is expecting her first child with Pasquale Rotella. Us Magazine was first to report the story (though they erroneously call Holly a Playboy Playmate -- a title she n...
The Trade Union Congress (TUC) and the Power Holding Company of Nigeria’s (PHCN) workers have described the circumstances which led to the sack of Prof. Barth Nnaji as minister of power as dirty. On its part, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) adv...
Flood hazards are the most common and destructive of all natural disasters. Each year, flood disasters cause tremendous loss of lives and property, thereby causing devastating impact on the socio-economic conditions of the people. In Nigeria, the situa...