The International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA), confirmed on Friday it would announced the host cities of the 2018 World Cup in Russia next Saturday. FIFA President, Sepp Blatter and Russian Sports Minister, Vitaly Mutko, would jointly on...
Shareholders of First City Monument Bank (FCMB) and FinBank have unanimously approved the proposed merger of the two banks. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the shareholders gave their approval on Friday at both banks’ Court Or...
The special visitation panel set up by the Federal Government in July to investigate the activities of University of Abuja since its establishment has described the institution as a mockery of the university system. Presenting the panel&rsq...
Many petrol stations in Jos metropolis have remained shut to motorists due to the non -availability of petrol, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Many petrol stations in the Plateau State capital have not opened in the past one week. The few ind...
Justice Mudashiru Oniyangi of an Abuja High Court on Friday dismissed an application by former Inspector General of Police, Mr Sunday Ehindero, which urged the court to stop ICPC from arraigning him. Oniyangi also dismissed similar applicatio...
An Ikorodu Customary Court in Lagos on Friday dissolved the 13- year-old marriage of a trader who claimed that her husband’s girlfriends regularly harass and beat her. ?The Court President, Mrs Risikat Ekerin, dissolved the union bet...
A suspected fraudster, Henry Adelaye, on Friday appeared before an Ebute Meta Magistrates' Court in Lagos over alleged impersonation and theft of N700,000. Unemployed 43-year-old Adelaye is standing trial on a four-count charge of impersonati...
Some passengers of Arik Air on Friday at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, converged at the desk of Arik Air for the refund of their unused tickets. Some of the aggrieved passengers told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that they ca...
The long queues of vehicles reported at filling stations in Ife and Modakeke towns in Osun due to scarcity of petroleum products have reduced drastically on Friday A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), who visited some of sta...
The UN human rights chief called on Georgia on Friday to prosecute prison officers caughton videos torturing and raping inmates, a scandal that has broken out a week before a national election. Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said a...
The Nigerian Navy has described Cdr. Datoru Abi-Kalio, who died in the DANA air crash of June 3 in Lagos, as a dedicated naval officer and a shining star. Cdr. Henry Babalola, Command Operations Officer, Western Naval Command, Apapa, said this on ...
The National Chairman, All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Dr Obgbonnaya Onu, on Friday received the Certificate of Incorporation for the United States of America Chapter of the party in New Jersey, U.S. The document was presented to him by t...
The police in Lagos on Friday arraigned two drivers, who allegedly conspired and stole a Kia Sportage jeep worth N5.5 million from where it was parked. Patrick Onyeze and James Imeh, aged 35 and 31 years respectively, were charged along with one Sunday...
The Zambian government is to give former first lady, Betty Kaunda, a state funeral just as the country declared a three-day national mourning in her honour from Friday. ``Mama” Betty Kaunda who passed away on Wednesday, while visit...
A South African Magistrates’ Court on Friday sentenced one Andries Sibiya, to life imprisonment on anine-count charge for raping his daughter. The court heard that Sibiya started sleeping with his daughter from the age of thirteen and that she ga...