Gov. Rochas Okorocha of Imo on Friday in Owerri appealed to the re-instated 27 local government chairmen in the state to come for a dialogue with him. Okorocha made the appeal after the council chairmen, who were recently re-instated by the Appea...
The crackdown on doping offenders in the run-up to the London Olympics has been a success, the President, International Olympic Committee (IOC), Jacques Rogge, said on Friday. Rogge said that this was after testers caught more than a 100 athletes using...
The Police AIG in-charge of Zone 9, Umuahia, Mr Solomon Olusegun, has described Anambra as one of the states that have the lowest crime rate in the country. Olusegun made the observation in Awka on Friday while speaking with newsmen after a visit to th...
Gov. Murtala Nyako of Adamawa on Friday appointed 50 special advisers and 37 development area administrators. Speaking shortly after the swearing-in of the political appointees in Yola, Nyako advised them to be committed to their duties. ``For the spec...
A slim ray of hope for the world's 34 million people living with HIV emerged this week at the International AIDS conference. Two studies presented in Washington and a third published in a journal involved the use of drugs or procedures that are alr...
Mr Miri Mamtur, the Registrar of the FCT High Court, Maitama, Abuja, is dead. One of his colleagues, Mr Vincent Ifeachor, who confirmed the death to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja, said that Mamtur, 48, died at the National Hospita...
Ameen Abubakar, 35, of Kurmin Mashi quarters, Kaduna, was on Friday arraigned before a Kaduna Sharia Court for allegedly kidnapping his three-year-old son, Khalifa. The complainant, Maryam Abubakar of the same address, told the court that Abubakar, her...
Yobe Government on Friday launched the sale of 12,000 bags of assorted grains to people at subsidised rate of N2,000 against the N8,000 price in the open market. Launching the programme in Damaturu, Gov. Ibrahim Gaidam, said the government procured the...
Transactions on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) closed positively on Friday as stocks of highly capitalised companies recorded price gain. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the All- Share Index at the end of trading appreciated by 176.21 ...
The Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order (ORO) said on Friday that it had arrested 26 suspected Boko Haram sect members during a raid in Maiduguri. Lt.-Col. Sagir Musa, the JTF spokesman stated this in a statement in Maiduguri. ``Following...
The permanent secretariat of the African First Ladies Peace Mission (AFLPM) in Abuja would cost 50 million dollars (about N8 billion), Mr Reuben Okoya, Coordinator, Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC), said. Okoya, who gave the estimate in his...
Beans known as Ewa to the Yoruba and are unpopular staple foods because it is associated with bloating, flatulence and indigestion. Most people have one reason or the other why they do not eat beans. Yet, it is advisable to have beans in the family men...
Rachel Aldington, 42, emerges from the frozen fog, feeling for just a few minutes like she’s 19 again. Back then she was loose-limbed and pain-free, poised on the brink of a professional waterskiing career — and then she developed ankylosin...
Chief Chika Okpala became a household name as ‘Chief Zebrudaya’ when he produced and acted the lead role in one of Nigeria’s longest running comedy programmes on television, ‘The Masqurades’. He speaks with CHIKA OTUCHIKER...
Governors of the nineteen northern states under the auspices of the Northern States Governors Forum (NSGF) met in Abuja last night to further deliberate on the prevailing situation of insecurity in the North as well as the constitution review. The meet...