As the release of water from the Lagdo Dam in Cameroon continues to devastate farmlands and destroy houses, flooding yesterday increased in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, rendering the popular Makurdi-Gboko road inaccessible. This is just as more ho...
Minister of Interior, Comrade Abba Moro, yesterday condemned last Sunday’s suicide bombing at St John’s Catholic Church in Bauchi State, which killed three and injured over 43, saying it was a threat to peaceful co-existence and aimed at ig...
Gunmen yesterday in Bauchi kidnapped the former Chairman of Bauchi State Fertiliser Distribution Committee, Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar. Abubakar is also an in-law to Bauchi State Governor Isa Yugada. Narrating the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (...
December 2013 is the projected timeline given by President Goodluck Jonathan for the delivery of the National Identity Management Systems (NIMS), which will harmonize all the data drawn from all ministries, department and agencies (MDAs) of government ...
Two hundred and ninety (290) players have been accredited for participation at the 6th edition of the Godswill Akpabio International Scrabble Classics Championship, scheduled for Uyo, Akwa Ibom State next week. The accredited players are for four diffe...
The commencement of the Flag-off of the movement of the Torch of Unity across the 35 states of the federation and Abuja to signify the official count-down to the 18th National Sports Festival in Lagos, tagged ‘EKO 2012’ begins today. Accord...
Eagles coach Stephen Keshi is looking at several other players to replace Italy-based Obiora Nwankwo who struggled in Liberia this month. Top team officials informed MTNFootball.com that Nwankwo was slow and sluggish against the Lone Star of Liberia in...
For ten days, the 12-man Lagos table tennis team were exposed to top flight training at the Chinese National Training Centre in Hebei, China and after returning, they admitted that they are at the right frame of mind to dominate the event at the ...
Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) has approved a N15 million scholarship grant for deserving indigenous students in its bid to encourage and promote access to education for all eligible students in the council. The council’s Supervisory Council...
Minister of the Federal Capital territory (FCT), Senator Bala Mohammed, says his administration has seen to the demolition of about 124,000 houses since he came into office in April 2010. The minister disclosed this yesterday, while responding to quest...
The Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has accused Governor Rauf Aregbesola’s government of commencing the process of selling the state’s solid minerals mining licence to some leaders of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) ...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday confirmed reports in the media that the federal government has resolved to step down the introduction of the N5,000 note by the Central Bank of Nigeria. “the introduction is being suspended for now to enable ...
In a bid to prepare well for its forthcoming general elections, a 10-member team from the National Electoral Commission (NEC) of Sierra Leone has arrived Nigeria for training by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). In a statement by Mr...
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), has described as shocking, the recent bomb explosion at St. John’s Catholic Cathedral in Bauchi which killed four people. An explosives-laden car reportedly rammed into the line of worshippers wai...
The federal government has approved the sum of $6million for the construction of the new Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS parliament in Abuja. Speaker of the parliament and Nigeria’s deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremadu,...