The aged mother of the convicted Chief Security Officer (CSO) to the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, Hajiya Fatima Al-Mustapha is dead. She died in Kano, yesterday, after a protracted illness and was buried at Fagge ce...
Benue State Governor Gabriel Suswam yesterday told civil servants in the state to resign their appointments if they were interested in playing politics rather than enhance development in the service. This warning was to assist civil servant to clearly ...
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Mohammed Abubakar has ordered the Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone 4 Command, AIG Mike Zuokumor, and the Plateau State Commissioner of Police, Emmanuel Ayeni, to end the violence which has eng...
The Northern States Governors’ Forum (NSGF), has paid tribute to the Vice President, Architect Muhammad Namadi Sambo, who turned 60 today, and said that the nation’s number two man has lived a life totally committed to the socio-economic pr...
There was palpable fear in Lagos as a three-storey building collapsed leaving scores of residents and others still trapped in the rubbles. The building located at 11 Anikantamo Street, off Adeniji-Adele road, was said to have crumbled at about 1pm yest...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the forthcoming Ondo State governorship election, Chief Wale Oke, has said Ondo people’s desire for change is the basis for his gunning for the Ondo Government House and said that he was ready for t...
Officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) fled in various directions yesterday when a yet-to-be-identified armed policeman stormed the Iponri office of the traffic management agency, shooting sporadically before bolting away wi...
The Minister of Environment, Mrs. Hadiza Ibrahim Mailafia, has said that all park rangers in the country’s national parks across the country will be upgraded to the status of para-military forces. The minister stated this while inaugurating of th...
The Lagos Coroner, Mr. Komolafe Oyetade, was shown the video footage of what happened at the site of the Dana air craft which crashed at Iju-Ishaga, Lagos on July 3, 2012. The clips that were shown were from Channels Television and Television Con...
Lithuania basketball coach revealed after beating his African foes that he never took the encounter lightly because he knew how talented and dangerous the Nigerian team is. Nigeria is 21st in the world why Lithuania is 5th. Kestutis Kemzura said he kne...
Team Nigeria weightlifters will today and Friday begin their quest for medals at the London Olympics Games. Felix Ekpo is expected to battle for the ultimate prize in the sport today while Mariam Usman is up on Friday in the women’s category. Ekp...
D’Tigers’ chief coach, Ayo Bakare has expressed displeasure over the inability of the basketball team to repeat the defeat they handed the world’s best fifth team Lithuania yesterday. Nigeria defeated the Lithuanians during the Olympi...
Ongoing repair and maintenance of the Noble Percy Jones, a giant oil rig at the Lagos Deep Offshore Logistics base (LADOL) is said to save the country $16.5 million (N2.5 billion) in capital flight, which is the cost of the job and directly create abou...
Prince Billy Harry is the President, Forum of South-South Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture. In this interview with OLAOLU OLADIPO, he speaks on a wide range of issues affecting the country and calls on President Goodluck Jonathan t...
AC Milan owner Silvio Berlusconi has admitted that the club’s financial problems mean that they must now strive to develop great players, just as Barcelona have done, rather than embark upon any more “shopping sprees”, as they did dur...