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The problem of drug trafficking in the entertainment industry has become a worrisome subject for lovers of entertainment.
As a celebrity or a renowned personality in society, one is supposed to be steadfast in whatever they do. So when the issue of dru...
Tracy Chapman helped restore singers/songwriters to the spotlight in the 80s. The multi-platinum success of Chapman’s eponymous 1988 debut was unexpected, and it had a lasting impact. Although Chapman was working from the same confessional singer...
Appoints Mohammed As NPHCDA Executive Director, President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday condoled with Governor Ibrahim Dankwambo of Gombe State over the death of his deputy, Mr. David Albashi in the early hours of yesterday, describing it as &ldqu...
Legal experts yesterday examined the outcomes of presidential election petitions over the years and suggested reasons why Nigeria’s incumbent presidents always win at the tribunals and at the Supreme Court despite the weight of evidence adduced b...
The deputy governor of Gombe State, Mr. David Albashi, died yesterday in a German hospital of injuries he received in a car crash on Aug. 28.
A statement by the secretary to the Gombe State government, Alhaji Abubakar Bage, said Albashi died in the ear...
Three suspected suicide bombers believed to be members of the Boko Haram sect yesterday lost their lives in separate bomb blasts that rocked the Borno State capital, barely 48 hours to Sallah celebrations.
Eyewitnesses said that the three men died in t...
Barely twenty-four hours to the Eid-ul Kabir celebrations, hundreds of customers of Union Bank of Nigeria Plc., Panseke branch in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital yesterday received the shock of their lives as they were locked out of the bank’s s...
To consolidate its leadership position in the bagging sector of the manufacturing industry, the Dangote Agro Sacks Limited, a subsidiary of Dangote Group, has embarked on aggressive expansion by adding to its production lines to hit production of 51 mi...
Three suicide bombers on Friday, met their waterloo when their mission to bomb the headquarters of the Joint Task Force(JTF) in Maiduguri failed – the bombs detonated before they could get through the gate.
Our reporter gathered that ...
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has concluded plans to peg new Eagles handler’s pay at N5m that was given to sacked coach Samson Siasia. The NFF executive board jettisoned a recommendation of the technical committee for new coach Stephen Ke...
The minister of petroleum resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, has stated that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is not above the law and does not perceive itself as such. Alison–Madueke stated this yes...
The Borno state police command has averted what could have been a Sallah tragedy as it arrested a suspected Boko Haram member for allegedly possessing a two well packaged Improvise Explosive device proposed to be used as sallah ...
Following the collapse of a six-story building in Maryland , Lagos, the Building Collapse Prevention Guild (BCPG) has called on the State government to begin enforcement of compulsory building insurance immediately.The body also urged the Lagos State g...
ouse of Representatives member and Chairman, House Committee on Environment, Mrs. Uche Ekwunife, has challenged the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency(NESREA) to come up with creative strategies to make both...
Minister of Power, Prof. Bart Nnaji, yesterday issued “a second and final warning” to the management of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) and its 18 successor companies to pay their workers the enhanced salary package negotiated b...