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The Nasarawa State Government has given beneficiaries of the ‘Badakoshi’ Agricultural Loan Scheme two weeks to repay the loans. The ‘Badakoshi’ scheme was an agricultural intervention project set up by the Aliyu Doma...
The police in Benin have confirmed the abduction of a 36-year-old woman, Mrs Itohan Enogiafe, by three armed men suspected to be kidnappers. Mr Anthony Airhuoyo, the Edo Police Command Spokesman, while confirming the incident to newsmen in Benin o...
Twelve out of the 40 screened fleet operators in Enugu State were on Thursday, presented with certificates by the FRSC for maintaining the Road Transport Safety Standardisation Scheme. The operators certified are Peace Mass Transit, DVI-ENTRACO, Centra...
The Police on Thursday arraigned a 23-year-old man, Yakubu Abubakar, before an Abuja Senior Magistrates’ Court for alleged theft. The accused was alleged to have stolen a Nokia cell phone belonging to one Ibrahim Gambo of Banex junction, Abu...
The Nigerian Army on Thursday in Abuja opened bids for tender for capital projects valued at N250 million. The projects include drilling of boreholes in some barracks, supply of tyres for operational vehicles and purchase of vehicles. Speaking at...
After weeks of ignoring Kristen Stewart’s frantic texts and phone calls, Robert Pattinson has finally broken the silence. “He’s been drunk dialing Kristen,” a pal reveals exclusively to In Touch, on newsstands now. As Rob has be...
There is a rush for tickets to cover and watch the men’s basketball finals in the London Olympics. The media and communication department of the Games yesterday said due to high demand, the men’s basketball gold medal game on Saturday Augus...
The sports minister and Chairman National Sports Commission, BolajiAbdullahi yesterday paid a visit to injured and recuperating D’Tiders’ point guard Tony Skinn in hospital in London. The injured national basketball had sustained injury whi...
China completed a second successive clean sweep of Olympic Table Tennis gold medals as Ma Long, Zhang Jike and Wang Hao eased past Republic of Korea in the men’s Team final.Profiting from being on home soil in Beijing four years ago, the Asian na...
Kids at the on-going Nestle Milo Secondary Schools Basketball Championship woke up to behold the new synthetic basketball floor on Thursday morning and expressed happiness at the uniqueness of the sponsors to have gone the extra mile to better the game...
As Nigeria’s MuhammedIsah files out today to battle Jordanian Abulibdeh Mohammed, he will be fighting as an underdog. Isah who will fight in the -68kg alongside Beijing 2008 Olympics bronze medallist, Chika Chukwumerije are not listed on the taek...
They say to err is human, to forgive divine. But new research has revealed that excusing people who have hurt you can actually boost your health. Researchers from the University of California, San Diego, found those people who let go of their anger wer...
Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro, in this interview with George Agba says that the Immigration Service shares part of the country’s internal security challenges due to poor manning of borders. He also speaks on the recent threat by the H...
Turkey’s worst nightmares are beginning to come true in Syria - a protracted sectarian civil war on its long southern border with the emergence of a de facto Kurdish-controlled region friendly to its main domestic foe. The Syrian conflict is also...
The Action Congress of Nigeria has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to immediately convoke a national conference on the worsening insecurity in the land instead of offering platitudes any time the deadly Boko Haram strikes snuffing out lives out o...