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Prof. Viola Onwuliri, the Minister of State I for Foreign Affairs, says Nigerian investors should take advantage of the low interest loans from ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) to grow their businesses. The minister made the call...
A Federal High Court, will on April 2, deliver its ruling on whether or not the new charge filed against the former Managing Director of the Intercontinental Bank Plc, Erastus Akingbola, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, was valid under ...
Mr David Adejuwon, the Director, Ministry of Trade and Investment, has called on ECOWAS member countries to embark on viable economic relations among themselves. Adejuwon, who made the appeal on Thursday in Abuja while speaking with newsmen, said the m...
Lagos State House of Assembly has lauded the government’s determination to provide healthcare service delivery that will engender quality and affordable health to its citizenry. Chairman, House Committee on Health Services, Hon Suru Avoseh, gave ...
As the curtains on the probe of the fuel subsidy management by the House of Representatives ad-hoc committee drop, the committee, has queried the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) over allegations by the accountant-general of Liberia ...
Nigeria Premier League (NPL) champions, Dolphins have declared that it will appeal against Wednesday's ruling in a match-fixing allegation from last season. Dolphins were fined N10 million by the Organising and Disciplinary Committee ...
Irate mobs consisting of members of the Uwazuruike-led members of the Movement to the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra on Thursday, attacked a northern settlement in Onitsha over the killing of a coaster bus driver by a police officer. Th...
There was rowdy session on Thursday, at the Borno State House of Assembly, following the impeachment of its speaker, Hon. Goni Ali Modu, who was accused of been too loyal to the Executive, and also not keeping to his promises to the members, amon...
The Enugu State University of Science and Technology has expelled five hundred and forty-four Students for allegedly securing admission into the university illegally. But some of the affected students who spoke to our correspondent on conditions of ano...
A total number of 10,000 Police personnel and over 5,000 other security agents will be deployed to the existing eight local government councils in Bayelsa State for the conduct of Saturday’s Governorship poll. The Bayelsa State Police Command ann...
The Jama’atul Nasril Islam (JNI) on Thursday called for special prayers against same-sex marriage in the country. JNI made the appeal in a statement issued in Kaduna and signed by its Secretary-General, Dr Khalid Abubakar Aliyu. The statement fro...
A Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday fixed March 27 to deliver judgement in the suit filed by Alhaji Ayinla Kolawole Jimoh challenging the election of the immediate past governor of Kwara State, Dr Bukola Saraki, as the Senator representing Kwara Ce...
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja adjourned till February 14, 2012, hearing of all the preliminary applications for a joinder filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as a necessary party in the suit filed by a governorship aspirant under the Pe...
Real Madrid and Barcelona remain top of football’s rich list as the Spanish duo moved further clear of their rivals from England, Germany, Italy and France. According to the 2012 Deloitte Football Money League, published today, the Liga gi...
US missiles on Thursday killed Al-Qaeda’s chief in Pakistan, one of the Americans’ main targets in the volatile country and wanted for attacks that killed scores of people, officials said. Badar Mansoor, who reputedly sent fighters to Afgha...