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The controversy generated by the match between Nigeria and Argentina is yet to abate with the news that the centre referee of the encounter, Ibrahim Chaibou, a Nigerien cannot be found. It was reported that as the match was ongoing, the betting pattern...
Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of Kano State and professional golfers, have commended the Dangote Cement company for sponsoring the just concluded Emir of Kano (Open) Pro-Am golf tournament. Speaking at the closing ceremony, the governor described Dango...
Following threats by the organised labour to down tools over the non-implementation of the N18,000 minimum wage, the federal government yesterday bowed to the demand by agreeing to implement the new wage from grade level 01 to 17. This decision was rea...
With barely two days into Ramadan, another bomb, suspected to have been planted by the members of the Jamatul Ahlis Sunnah lid Daawa wal Jihad, popularly known as Boko Haram, exploded at Gomari Airport Ward in Maiduguri metropolis, Borno State. One per...
The immediate past chairman of the All Nigeria Peoples Party ANPP and former Speaker of the House of Representatives in the defunct Second Republic Chief Edwin Ume-Ezeoke is dead. He died in India in the early hours of yesterday at the age of 76. Ume-E...
The All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) has called for immediate probe of the eight-year tenure of former President Olusegun Obasanjo just as it advocated a national conference to enable Nigerians deliberate on numerous problems facing the country. S...
Former Chairman of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Chief Edwin Ume-Ezeoke is dead. He died Monday, in India. Read details later
The proposed six-year single term tenure for president and governors being promoted by President Goodluck Jonathan has received a hard knock from Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi. Fayemi who was responding to questions on his monthly media chat,...
The strike embarked upon by staff of Edo State House of Assembly yesterday took a new dimension as angry workers locked out the Speaker, Hon. Uyi Igbe and other principal officers from parliamentary proceedings over their non-inclusion in the new minim...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has challenged the German engineering company, Siemens, to transcend its engineering procurement contract business interests in Nigeria to become an active operator in the country’s power sect...
In a bid to further strengthen the implementation of the local content policy, the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has issued a directive barring oil and gas operators and contractors in Nigeria from importing any oil sector e...
She did not become popular through acting.No. She was known as a model for one of Nigeria’s popular medicated soaps. After starring in more than few movies, she went off the radar, but in this interview with RUTH CHOJI who met her at the premier ...
A former Head of State and presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change(CPC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has dragged the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, before a Lagos High Court over alleg...
A Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday turned down a prayer made by one of the police officers accused of killing Ustaz Mohammed Yusuf, the leader of the dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram, in 2009. Adamu Gado, a sergeant and one of the five accused per...
As Nigeria charts a new foreign policy, President Goodluck Jonathan has said that the nation’s interests must determine whatever policy was adopted. President Jonathan said this at the seminar on review of Nigeria’s Foreign Policy organised...