Benue State politicians may have decided to take the political battle in the north central state to the United States as they turned the ongoing convention of the Mutual Union of the Tiv in America (MUTA) to a political forum where they all discussed t...
About seven weeks to the September 30 deadline given rescued banks to recapitalise, the Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) yesterday said the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has revoked the operating licences of Afribank, Spring and BankPHB fo...
The people of Ogoni in Rivers State, under the aegis of the factionalised Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) are now divided over the report on oil spills in the area which was recently submitted to President Goodluck Jonathan by the Uni...
Facts have emerged about how a former Miss Motor Show Nigeria, Miss Barbara Ana, was murdered in her house in Gwarinpa, Abuja July 29, 2011.The deceased who was an Efik from Cross River state, had won the Miss Nigeria zonal competition for the Southern...
The trial of Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, the Chief Security officer of late Military ruler General Sani Abacha continued at the Lagos High Court, Igbosere with him playing the videotape of a VHS recording showing the visit of some South-West leader...
About 50 passengers were feared dead Tuesday, after an unidentified luxury bus and truck ran over them at Zariagi, on the Okene-Lokoja road, Kogi State. The victims were said to be travelling from Lagos to Abuja when their bus was stopped by rob...
Following threats by the organised labour to down tools over the non-implementation of the N18,000 minimum wage, the federal government yesterday bowed to the demand by agreeing to implement the new wage from grade level 01 to 17. This decision was rea...
With barely two days into Ramadan, another bomb, suspected to have been planted by the members of the Jamatul Ahlis Sunnah lid Daawa wal Jihad, popularly known as Boko Haram, exploded at Gomari Airport Ward in Maiduguri metropolis, Borno State. One per...
The immediate past chairman of the All Nigeria Peoples Party ANPP and former Speaker of the House of Representatives in the defunct Second Republic Chief Edwin Ume-Ezeoke is dead. He died in India in the early hours of yesterday at the age of 76. Ume-E...
The All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) has called for immediate probe of the eight-year tenure of former President Olusegun Obasanjo just as it advocated a national conference to enable Nigerians deliberate on numerous problems facing the country. S...
The strike embarked upon by staff of Edo State House of Assembly yesterday took a new dimension as angry workers locked out the Speaker, Hon. Uyi Igbe and other principal officers from parliamentary proceedings over their non-inclusion in the new minim...
As Nigeria charts a new foreign policy, President Goodluck Jonathan has said that the nation’s interests must determine whatever policy was adopted. President Jonathan said this at the seminar on review of Nigeria’s Foreign Policy organised...
Public outcry yesterday greeted President Goodluck Jonathan’s proposed six-year single term for the president and state governors from 2015.Nigerians from all walks of life rejected the proposal, saying the development was not the country’s...
Efforts to actualise President Goodluck Jonathan’s gas revolution agenda were made this week when a team of experts and foreign investors arrived Koko in Warri North local government area of Delta State to commence preliminary site inspection of ...
Overwhelmed by the financial burden thrown up by the payment of the N18,000 new minimum wage recently approved by the federal government, Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola has imposed some austerity measures to cut the cost of running government i...