A 52-year-old man, Mohammed Lawal, was yesterday sentenced to six months imprisonment for picking a senator’s pocket inside a hotel in Abuja. Lawal was said to have pretended to beg for money from his victim, Senator Emmanuel Nkwocha, as the sena...
In order to put a stop to the decay of highways across the country, the federal government has threatened to punish erring contractors by limiting their activities to small lots. Speaking during a meeting with highway contractors in Abuja yesterday, th...
The Civil Liberty Organisation (CLO) has called on the Inspector-General of P olice, Mohammed Abuba ng the murder of a deputy director in the Anambra–Imo River Basin Development Authority, Owerri, Sir Basil Ejezie. He was allegedly clubbed to dea...
The senior special assistant to the president on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Dr. Precious Gbeneol, has warned states and local government councils against undue delay of MDGs funds in banks, with the intent of earning interest on them. Gbeneol...
The aviation agencies comprising Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), have said that the labour unions that disrupted Arik Air’s flight leading to t...
The Benue state Police Command has denied the rumour making the round that a bomb planted opposite the main gate of the police command headquarters in Makurdi was detonated. There were claims on Thursday, that an Audi 80 saloon car with registration nu...
Trouble looms for Minister of Information and Communication, Labaran Maku, over his alleged remarks, which the Senate views as disparaging. To underscore the brewing discord the Senate yesterday summoned him(Maku) to appear before it on Tuesday, Septem...
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...