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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC) said it had rearrested the former managing director of Intercontinental Bank Plc (now Access Bank Plc), Mr Erastus Akingbola. In a tpress statement released to the media yesterday, the EFCC stated th...
The controversy surrounding the alleged $1.56billion loan threatening to engulf the National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) took a new twist yesterday when the minister for Petroleum Resources, Mrs Deizani Allison Madueke, and the group managing director...
The senior special adviser to Taraba State Governor on media and publicity, Mr Syvanus Giwa, has refuted the reports in some national dailies that the wife of Governor Danbaba Suntai has packed her belongings from Government House. Giwa, who made this ...
Islamic sect, Boko Haram, has denied involvement in the abduction of seven French tourists in Cameroon. The group, which declared ceasefire five weeks ago, made this known during a press conference in Maiduguri yesterday. Sheikh Abu M...
Top officials of the Nigeria Football Federation have revealed that coach Stephen Keshi would no longer enjoy long training camps as was the case previously. The Eagles before winning the recent Africa Cup of Nations set up training camps for at least ...
The Nigeria Basketball Federation is working towards a new robust basketball season. The plans in place according to the federation boss, Tijjani Umar is to see both the DStv and Zenith leagues experience innovations that will give them a lift. The new...
The Ministry of Sports has re-iterated its resolve to provide all logistic support for the Flying Eagles to excel in the forthcoming 2013 Africa Youth Championship (AYC). Julius Ogunro, the Special Assistant on Media to the minister of sports, told (NA...
The Technical Adviser of Nigeria U-12 Baseball team, Gerard Hall has expressed optimism that the starlets can be world beaters if well nurtured considering the quality of talented players in the national camp taking place in Rosebud College, Ibadan. He...
The leadership of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has again dissociated itself from the various internet sites designed with its logo by criminal elements, with the sole aim of defrauding unsuspecting and desperate applicants seeki...
The deputy chairman of the House Committee on Privatisation and Commercialisation, Hon Nkem Abonta, has blasted government’s war against corruption, saying it is insincere and does not have the seriousness required to address the problem. Abonta ...
Gunmen on Saturday night, Opened fire on Mourners and killed at least 8 and injured scores in Kaduna Village.
The Gunmen Men who stormed Gida Village in Zango Kataf Local government of Kaduna State, stage the attack at about 11 pm last night.
A resident of the village told our correspondent that "I have counted 8 death bodies now."
"They stormed the village and went straight to the house of our late grand father who died last week, and started shooting at the people in the house who gathered to celebrate his life; our grand father lived a long life. They came with guns," he said.
Second Republic Senate President, Chief Joseph Wayas, has said that since. The Nigerian does not provide for any president to rule for more than eight years, President Goodluck Jonathan is automatically disqualified from the 2015 presidential race. Sen...
Leaders of the Boko Haram group have dissociated themselves from the recent bombings, killings and burning of markets in some parts of Borno State. The organisation’s second in command, Shiekh Abu Mohammed Abdulaziz, told newsmen yesterday in Mai...
The Police on Saturday arrested no fewer than seven persons for allegedly assaulting policemen who were sent to monitor the monthly enviromental sanitation in the State. The incident occurred in Elite road,Idi-Aba,Abeokutanarea of the town,where ...
Following rumours making the round over plans by terror groups operating under the platform of the Boko Haram and its breakaway faction, Jama’atu Ansaral Muslimana Fi Biladis –Sudan to launch attack on Lagos, the state government has implor...