President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday in Abuja wrote a letter to the Senate President requesting approval to borrow about $7.9 billion for pipeline projects. The President said the request was coming under the medium term (2012-2014) external borrowin...
The Kogi State office of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) has confirmed that 61 people lost their lives in 485 road crashes recorded in the state in January this year. The state's Sector Commander of the FRSC, Mr Michael Olapade, who confi...
The 40th Ordinary Summit of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government will hold in Abuja from Thursday to Friday, according to a statement from ECOWAS Commission. The statement issued on Tuesday in Abuja said that during the summit statutory position...
The Super Eagles on Tuesday departed the country aboard Air Nigeria for their international friendly with the Lone Star of Liberia. The match will hold on Wednesday in Monrovia. The team’s spokesman, Ben Alaiya, told NAN before their departure th...
An experienced zoo worker died after he suffered a fatal attack by his zoo's farm lion in the central South African province of Free State, local police said on Tuesday. The man, 63, had worked for nearly 40 years at the zoo's farm Rietkuil in ...
The Kano State Government has relaxed for the second time the curfew it imposed on the state by four hours. The state government imposed the curfew on Jan. 20 as a result of the multiple bomb explosions which rocked the Kano metropolis. The state Commi...
The body of pop superstar Whitney Houston was en route from Los Angeles to her New Jersey home ahead of funeral services there as details emerged about the singer who battled drugs and alcohol. A plane owned by actor-producer Tyler Perry carrying the G...
Living in a crowded city or near a busy highway where the air quality is poor might lead to a higher chance of stroke or memory loss, according to two U.S. studies. Both reports appeared in the Archives of Internal Medicine, with one finding a higher r...
The recent allegation by the Congress for Progressive Change [CPC] Governorship candidate in Bauchi State, Alhaji Yusuf Maitama Tuggar that Governor Isa Yuguda had used thugs to win the April 2011 election by using them to intimidate the CPC supp...
Enugu State Government and the State House of Assembly have indicated interest to intervene in the crisis between the Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT) and 544 students that were expelled last week by the institu...
Plateau State Government, yesterday, presented relief materials worth N8.02 million to more than 400 internally displaced persons from Yobe State. The State government also donated drugs and provided temporary accommodation to the families in Jos. The ...
Shop owners in Lagos have decried poor patronage ahead of Tuesday’s Valentine’s Day celebration, according to a survey. A correspondent who visited some gift shops and supermarkets in some parts of the metropolis, reports that the traders w...
Following the torturing and dumping into a well of a 16 year old boy, Chidera Nnorom, by a purported vigilante group at Chokoneze in Aboh Mbaise LGA of Imo State, the community members have reportedly to desert...
An official of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Davis Ibrahim, yesterday denied the charge of fraud preferred against him by the agency. Ibrahim, who claimed innocence through his lawyer, Mr E. D. Onyeke, told an Ikeja High Court in...
The Bauchi airstrip was closed for renovation last year and was officially declared open for use by Gov. Isa Yuguda of Bauchi on Monday. The airstrip was closed by the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) on grounds of safety after the plane of the ...