The Lagos state government has unsealed the 1004 flats earlier closed off in Victoria Island, after reaching a settlement with management of the blocks of flats. Earlier today, the government had sealed off the flats over unpaid land use charges by the...
The billionaire software genius behind the McAfee antivirus programs is wanted for murder in Belize. According to Gizmodo.com, Belize police claim John McAfee is the prime suspect in the shooting death of an American expatriate named Gregory Faull. Fau...
Prof. Akin Osibogun, Chief Medical Director, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), has called on philanthropists to assist the hospital to rebuild the burnt AIDS Prevention Initiative Clinic (APIN). Osibogun told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) o...
The Rivers Government says it has saved a total of N34 billion for the ``rainy day.” The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Gov. Chibuike Amaechi, at the inception of his administration in 2007, had promised to make a compulsory saving of ...
Coach Kadiri Ikhana in Abuja on Monday reigned his position as head coach of the Nigerian senior women football team, the Super Falcons. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that his resignation came on the heels of his team's failure at this y...
Operations to pull people from a collapsed six-story department store in Ghana's capital ended on Monday, with the death toll reaching 14, local media reported. The West African country's emergency services, along with the armed and police forc...
The Federal High in Abuja on Monday said it will delivery judgment on the treasonable felony charge against Edmund Ebuware on Jan. 25, 2013. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ebuware is standing trial in connection with the Oct. 1, 20...
The Mobil Producing Nigeria on Monday began to clean the oil spill along the Atlantic coastline in Akwa Ibom. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the spill, which occurred on Nov. 9 at the company’s offshore platforms, discharged some b...
The Police Command in Bayelsa on Monday confirmed the kidnap of a 60-yeard community leader, Chief Bertrand Douglas of Ekpekiri community. Douglas, a renowned geologist, was kidnapped on Sunday by armed gunmen in his country home in Ekpekiri. The comma...
Sen. Nenadi Usman, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Investment on Monday expressed optimism that the National Assembly would soon pass the Nigerian Sugar Master Plan (NSMP) bill. Usman disclosed this in Abuja at a one-day stakeholders’ interacti...
The Police Command in Kano State on Monday warned against the use of knockout and other fireworks in the state. The warning was issued by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in Charge of Sabon- Gari, Mr Shuaibu Bello, a Chief Superintendent of Police, ...
The House of Representatives Committee on Power has decried zero allocation to electricity generation and distribution companies in the 2013 budget estimates. Rep. Patrick Ikhariale ( PDP-Edo), the Chairman of the committee, said this at a news confere...
Three men posing as an art teacher and two students stole paintings worth about two million dollars in South Africa's most celebrated Art Museum in a brazen day-time robbery. The three paid an entrance fee of over $1 each on Sunday and asked a muse...
The ECOWAS Commission on Monday in Abuja donated 382,000 dollars (about N61 million) to assist flood victims in Nigeria. ECOWAS Commission President Kadre Quedraogo, who presented the cheque to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Olugbenga Ashiru, said...
A total of 176 countries on Monday adopted what WHO Director-General Margaret Chan called a ``game-changing’’ global agreement to combat illegal tobacco trade. The pact was ratified at a meeting in Seoul, South Korea, at the WHO's Frame...