Armed soldiers believed to be men of the 1 Mechanized Division, Nigerian Army, have stormed the popular Barnawa Shopping Complex area of Kaduna metropolis and whisked away 33 persons suspected to be Boko Haram members. Thirteen of those seized were Nig...
Despite the claim by the registrar of the National Examination Council, NECO, Professor Promise Okpalla, that there was a slight improvement in the performance of students who took part in the external senior secondary examination of Nov/Dec 2011, the ...
As Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu clocks 60 years of age today, he speaks on a range of national issues. In this interview with our editors – Iyobosa Uwugiaren, Juwe Oluwafemi and Auwal S. Mu’Azu, the former senator, two-time governor of Lagos S...
United Nations’ Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon has outlined five areas that deserve greater attention as theInternational community strives to ensure nuclear security, curb terrorism financing as well as maintain stricter control over fissile...
The Senate yesterday confirmed three nominees as members of the Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) and two nominees into the Federal Judicial Service Commission. They also endorsed the nomination of Barr. Peter Ezeobi as a m...
The executive secretary of the National Universities Commission, Prof Julius Okojie, has warned new universities against admitting students more than they have the facilities for. This was just as he enjoined them to ensure that the number of approved ...
Officials of the Lagos State Taskforce on Environment and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit stormed Ikoyi area of Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria and arrested 86 illegal squatters, food vendors and aliens in the area. The exercise was carried out base...
A Kaduna Sharia Court on Wednesday dissolved the marriage between one Maryam Ahmed and Sanusi Idris of Maje Village in the Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State, after barely 30 days of the marriage. The court also directed Maryam to refund...
The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday granted a stay of proceedings in the suits brought against the election and swearing-in of Alhaji Idris Wada as Governor of Kogi. Mr Jibrin Isah and Mr Oyebode Makinde, both of the PDP filed the suits challen...
The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday stayed proceedings to allow the former officials of the Nigerian Football Association (NFA) to appeal the court’s decision on the no-case-submission filed by the accused persons over N1.3 billion scam. ...
The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved N27 billion as 50 per cent subsidy for the supply of fertiliser to rural farmers in 2012. The Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Akinwumi Adeshina, disclosed this after the Council meeting presided over by ...
Gov. Ibrahim Dankwambo of Gombe State on Wednesday lost his four-year-old daughter, Hajara, after a brief illness. A statement issued by the Permanent Secretary in-charge of Media, Alhaji Adamu Musa, in Gombe on Wednesday, said Hajara died in Abuja. Th...
The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) in Kaduna on Wednesday confirmed that 14 people were killed in an auto crash on the Kaduna-Abuja highway in the early hours of Wednesday, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The Public Enlightenment Offic...
Nigeria’s naira fell the most in almost a week after crude exporting companies reduced dollar sales and deployed their foreign-exchange reserves to pay for gasoline imports, leaving banks short of the U.S. currency. The currency of Africa’s...
Nigerian forces swept through the remote northeast on Wednesday, searching houses for suspected Boko Haram militants after killing four in a gun battle, the military said. The crackdown on the group in its heartland of Maiduguri followed a spate of att...