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It was supposed to be an April fool’s day but it was no joking matter for Mr. Onyeka (first names only used) as the angry fire completely burnt down his shop filed with raw rice worth millions of naira. The fear and the feeling of loss were the e...
President Goodluck Jonathan has said that his administration would no longer tolerate inefficiency in the management of the educational system while saying that educational institutions should at least solve the problems of their immediate hosts. The p...
The United States President, Mr. Barack Obama and the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki-moon have strongly condemned the actions taken by certain elements of Guinea Bissau’s military to seize power from the country’s civil...
A robbery suspect in Warri, Delta State has reportedly arrested his colleague in crime who abandoned him at the scene of crime. Both robbers, reports said were shot on Friday in their legs during one of their operations by a local vigilante group to fo...
Apart from the fear of possible eviction from their operational space at the popular Orange Market, in Karu Local Government Area, the market is reputed for all manner of crime-sex, gambling, local wrestling (Dambe), which sometimes result to deaths or...
The Senate Committee on Aviation will tomorrow begin a three-day public hearing on the violation of aviation laws and practice by foreign airlines and lapses in the operations of the regulatory agencies. The public hearing will discuss issues bordering...
Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State yesterday hinted that his government has duly notified President Goodluck Jonathan of attempts by a security agency to implicate him over issues amounting to promotion of religious extremism and secession. The gov...
The President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Mohammed Garba, has urged members of the pen profession not to perpetually remain at the level of being the watchdogs of the Nigerian Society but to also be ready to sacrifice their w...
Congress elections into the various offices at local government level of the Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] took place throughout the 21 local governments in Kebbi State yesterday. At the congress election of Birnin Kebbi which took place at the premis...
Following the current insecurity being experienced across the country, men of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) yesterday embarked on a 10km Route Match to check the alertness and prompt assembly of its personnel. Over one thousand Air Officers and me...
Nigeria’s militant group MEND threatened Saturday to attack South Africa’s investments, including telecoms firm MTN, in the Niger Delta, because of the terror trial of its leader in Johannesburg. “Our decision to attack South African...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, says the active participation of everyone is needed for democracy to thrive in a pluralised society. Tambuwal said this in Abuja on Saturday at the 2012 Nigerian Muslims and De...
Traders at the Alaba International Market have appealed to the Lagos State Government to widen the road network leading to the market. The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the market, Mr Felix Akpunonu, made the appe...
Activities resumed fully on Saturday at the general hospitals and the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) as doctors called off a three-day warning strike in Lagos. A correspondent of News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) who visited some hospital...
The Kebbi Government on Friday rescinded its decision to pay the N18,000 new minimum wage to workers in the state. The Commissioner for Information, Alhaji Sani Kangiwa, told newsmen in Birnin Kebbi that the government would now pa...