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The World Bank and African Development Bank has condemned the military coup in Mali and suspended project financing to the West African country, the institutions said in a joint statement. "Our development operations are suspended, with the except...
Usher has confirmed that he's set to play Sugar Ray Leonard in an upcoming boxing film called Hands Of Stone. Leonard, a world champion in five different weight divisions, finally retired from boxing in 1997 after a number of comebacks. The film is...
President Goodluck Jonathan and the Prime Minister of Norway, Jens Stoltenberg are to serve as founding co-chairs of the Commission on Life-saving Commodities for Women and Children. UNICEF and UNEPA stated this in a joint statement made availabl...
The House of Representatives has said that pending the conclusion of its in-house investigation into the N44 million corruption scandal rocking the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the House Committee on Capital Market, inflammatory comment...
One week after a middle-aged man, Musa Inua, caused a stir within the premises of the Federal High Court in Abuja, after he climbed a telecommunications mast with the intent to commit suicide over an alleged N15 million debt, owed him by former Vice-Pr...
Four persons were feared dead when persons suspected to be armed robbers, Wednesday, raided Dankama market, a local border market in Kaita local government of Katsina State, and allegedly carted away undisclosed sums of money. The Dankama market, which...
Tragedy struck yesterday in Takau village of Jema’a Local Government Area in Kaduna State, when three youths of the area lost their lives after inhaling smoke from a power generator while attempting to drain water from a well. A family source tol...
The New Commissioner of Police, Niger State Command, Mrs Diseye Desire Nsirim has said that there would be no sparing of criminals and criminal activities as the command arrested 41 hoodlums at black spots in Suleja within one week of her assumption of...
A Federal High Court in Makurdi, Benue State, yesterday, rejected the evidence tendered before it by one Mr. Terver Kakih against Governor Gabriel Suswam in a forgery case and said that it was not certified. Kakih had contested for Benue State Governor...
As the world celebrated Water Day, yesterday, stakeholders have decried non availability of water especially in the rural areas to encourage agriculture and ensure improved potable water supply. The consensus was that the development accounted for the ...
The call to states by the chairman of Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Engineer Elias Mbam, to limit their external and domestic borrowing to not more than 20 percent of their monthly allocation from federal account yester...
Dare-devil armed robbers, yesterday, resumed their gruesome operation in Ekpoma, Edo State after some break, killing one person and carting away undisclosed huge sum of money. The robbers, numbering about 10, attacked two commercial bank for about 30 m...
The Rivers State government is to embark on the demolition of more structures along Aba Road in Port Harcourt to pave way for the extension of the State monorail project from the UTC Junction to Waterline axis of the State capital Already, it had made ...
The Acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, yesterday gave a directive to all police commands across the country to establish Special Protection Units (SPU) to take charge of bank security. The directive is aimed at...
The Oyo/Osun Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has generated the sum of N1.7 Billion as revenue in the last two months. This was made known in Ibadan yesterday by the Customs Area Comptroller for Oyo/Osun command, Alha...