The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) on Thursday said that 100,000 pilgrims would be transported to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, for the 2012 Hajj. Dr. Harold Demuren, Director General, NCAA, made the disclosure in Lagos in an interactive session with ...
Giuliana and Bill Rancic announced that they feel 'blessed beyond words' to have become parents for the first time. The couple welcomed their son Edward Duke Rancic into the world on Wednesday evening, via a surrogate mother. Bill tweeted: &quo...
Holly Madison, the former Playboy model turned reality TV star turned Vegas headliner, is expecting her first child with Pasquale Rotella. Us Magazine was first to report the story (though they erroneously call Holly a Playboy Playmate -- a title she n...
The Trade Union Congress (TUC) and the Power Holding Company of Nigeria’s (PHCN) workers have described the circumstances which led to the sack of Prof. Barth Nnaji as minister of power as dirty. On its part, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) adv...
Flood hazards are the most common and destructive of all natural disasters. Each year, flood disasters cause tremendous loss of lives and property, thereby causing devastating impact on the socio-economic conditions of the people. In Nigeria, the situa...
As Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, gears up to celebrate its golden jubilee on October 4, 2012, the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Abdullahi Mustapha, in this interview with our AHURAKA ISAH, says that the university has substantially achieved its ob...
A vacuum in the two strategic ministries of power and defence created by the forced resignation on Tuesday of Professor Barth Nnaji(power) and the sacking of Dr. Haliru Mohammed Bello (defence) in June signals an imminent cabinet shake-up and new appoi...
A businessman, Chibuike Achigbu, filed a suit yesterday before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, claiming ownership of the $15 million allegedly received from a former governor of Delta State, James Ibori, by the former Economic and Financial Crim...
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has been summoned to appear before the House of Representatives to explain the propriety of the apex bank’s contentious plan to introduce N5,000 notes. The Lower Hous...
The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) has called on President Goodluck Jonathan not to succumb to the pressure of using maximum force to halt the activities of Boko Haram, and other security challenges in the country. The body advised Jonathan to continue with ...
The Kwara State Governor, Alhaji AbdulFatah Ahmed, yesterday advised civil servants about to retire from the service to engage in accurate planning rather than engage in fear about life after retirement. He noted that the major challenge of public serv...
Contrary to rumours making the rounds, Governor Umar Tanko Al-Makura of Nasarawa State has no hidden plan to go back to his former party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). This assurance was given by the Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to the Governor...
The National Association of Jigawa State Students (NAJISS) has expressed support for the joint ticket of Jigawa State governor Alhaji Sule Lamido and his counterpart in Rivers State, Rotimi Amechi ahead of the 2015 Presidential elections. Similarly, Ni...
The Bauchi State police command has disclosed that one of its officers (name withheld) has been apprehended and detained in a cell for allegedly having anal sex with minors. The State Commissioner of Police, Muhammad Ladan, revealed that the officer wa...
A socio-political group in Osun State, the Osun Development Agenda (ODA) has declared that the administration of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in the state was not driven by vendetta, just as it described the immediate past governor of the state and now...