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To ensure that they excel at the 18th National Sports Festival tagged Eko 2012, the Lagos State hockey team has intensified its training ahead of the tournament in November. With the conclusion of a two-day championship, the Technical Director o...
Two-time World Champion, Nigel Richards of New Zealand and former world champion, Pakorn Nemitrmansuk of Thailand are among the top players expected to compete at this year’s Godswill Akpabio International Scrabble Classics, coming up in Uy...
Jide Shiwoku, Lawrence Ojo and Funlola Oni scored a goal each to give Standard Chartered Bank the biggest win of the weekend and the best scoring side of the 2012 Nigeria Bankers Game which entered week two at the University of Lagos Sports Complex. St...
To spell out the limits of any proposition is not to give a dog a bad name, but a way of expanding the future outcome of an enterprise. PDP emerged after the elections of 1999 with a huge, seemingly undeflatable balloon of national goodwill. Meanwhile,...
Stakeholders are convening a National Information Security Conference (NgSecure 2012) on October 11 and 12, at the International conference Centre in Abuja on to design strategies to ensure greater cyber security. The forum is being put tog...
More floods have hit Northern and Central Taraba, ravaging communities on the banks of River Benue. The Chairman of Ardo-Kola Local Government,Dr Jalo Buba, told the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) in Sunkani on Monday. He said more than 3,000 hectares of ...
The Kano State Branch of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA)on Monday threatened to go on strike if the State Government did not implement the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure (CONMESS) for its members. This is contained in a statement signed b...
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr Mohammed Abubakar, on Monday, assured the five officers who were injured during their UN Peace Keeping mission, that they would be compensated adequately. Abubakar gave the assurance when he visited the officer...
Two senior officials under late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi went on trial on Monday accused of wasting public money. The officials are accused of facilitating a compensation payment of more than two billion dollars to families of those killed in the ...
Action Aid on Monday called on the National Assembly to undertake constitution amendments that would ``explicitly define the limitations of the powers of state governors in the affairs of the councils''. Dr Hussain Abdul, country director of Ac...
Fifteen ships laden with various cargoes are expected to berth at the Port Harcourt Port in the next five days, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) disclosed this in its ``The Shipping Position’’, ma...
The Chairman, Lagos State House of Assembly (LAHA) Committee on Health Service, Mr Suru Avoseh, on Monday decried the low patronage of Public Health Centres (PHCs) across the state. Avoseh (ACN-Badagry II), spoke in Lagos as the LAHA Committee on Healt...
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the appeal filed against the victory of Idris Wada of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) as Governor of Kogi State. Candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the 2011 governorship election, Prince...
Gov. Kashim Shettima of Borno on Monday signed into law the state university bill, giving a legal backingto the establishment of the institution. The state House of Assembly had some months ago passed the bill with an overwelming majori...
UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday called on the international community to support new Syrian peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi and to ensure that those responsible for war crimes in the conflict-torn country are prosecuted. Ban told the UN Human Rights Co...