The Lamurde Local Government Authority in Adamawa has confirmed the death of four persons following an attack by unknown gunmen in Yoldi Kohi village, Bidoma Development Area. Mr Dennis Kakaba, the administrator of Bidoma Development Area in Lamurde co...
The government of River State has stepped up its efforts to make life bearable for the physically challenged people in the state. Speaking at an interactive session which was a side event of the innaguration of the River State Women Association, Atlant...
Fresh attacks targeted on military bases in Cote d'Ivoire were recorded on Thursday night and Friday morning leaving six persons dead and many injured. Ivorian Minister of Defence Paul Koffi-Koffi, said the attacks were recorded on a mi...
More Nigerians have continued to react to President Goodluck Jonathan’s directive to the apex bank to suspend the N5, 000 note scheduled to be introduced in 2013. They expressed their views in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (...
Wife of River State Governor and Founder, Empowerment Support Initiative {ESI}, Dame Judith Amaechi, has promised that she will continue to use her office to promote and encourage education and health care in the state. Speaking at the weekend where sh...
Akwa Ibom Gov. Godswill Akpabio has tasked Traditional Rulers in the state to ensure that there is adequate peace and security in their domain. Akpabio gave the task in Uyo on Saturday during the swearing-in ceremony of the 25th Chairman, Akwa Ibom Sup...
The Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku, has called on public office holders to exhibit the habit of spending government funds judiciously. Maku made the call on Saturday during a tour of the Civil Defence Academy, Abuja, as part of the ongoing Na...
A rampant but wasteful Nigeria side will feel hard done by to leave the Tofig Bahramov stadium with just a point, having hit the woodwork four times against Canada in a dominant display with the score finishing 1-1.
The National Integrated Power Project (NIPP) was conceived by the former President Olusegun Obasanjo administration in the year 2004 as a fast-track approach to solving the country’s power challenges. Although the project has gulped about $8 bill...
Last Tuesday, Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Ayotunde Philips, freed 233 inmates awaiting trial in both the Medium and Maximum prisons in Kirikiri, Lagos during a visit to the facilities as part of activities marking the start of the 2012/20...
Tunji Tolani is the managing director, Abuja Leasing Company (ALC) Limited. In this interview with DAVID ADUGE-ANI, he spoke on the challenges his company and others businesses are facing in Nigeria, submitting that businesses in the country go through...
Senate president David Mark has said that Kogi State would likely join the league of oil producing states in the country with the discovery of oil in the state. Mark, who stated this in Lokoja yesterday, said he was surprised that the state governor, C...
The inspector-general of police, Mohammed Abubakar, has directed commissioners of police across the country to embark on arrest of motorists who use sirens indiscriminately, saying there is a serious abuse of siren by unauthorised persons. Abubakar, wh...
Worried about the perennial fuel scarcity across the country, the Senate has invited Petroleum Resources Minister, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke and Group Managing Director of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, (NNPC) Mr. Andrew Yakubu, for a co...
The team of police officers who unravelled the gruesome murder of Miss Cynthia Osokogu, the lady who was lured to her death by her Facebook friends, was yesterday rewarded by the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, with promotion to their n...