Latest news from Nigeria on Nigeriaa2z.com. catch up with A-Z news and information from Africa’s most populous country in West Africa via our teams in Kaduna, Warri, Lagos, Abuja and Kano.
The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL) yesterday wrote to President Goodluck Jonathan, asking him to direct the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) to probe the Attorney Gene...
Second Republic Steel Minister, Wantaregh Paul Unongo, in this interview with journalists, speaks on the desperation for power by politicians, the Boko Haram challenge, his legendary philanthropy as well as how he rejected late MKO Abiola’s N68 m...
Apparently moved by reactions to their perceived approval of Islamic banking and cash withdrawal limit policies as proposed by the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, members of the House of Representatives have denied that t...
Small and Medium enterprises SMES have been recognised as the bedrock of a nation’s industrial and technological advancement.This was one of the conclusions reached by the participants at the just concluded 6th D-8 Business Forum/ Exhibition whic...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday hinted that he would send a Constitution Amendment Bill to the National Assembly to make provision for a single tenure for the president and governors of the 36 states of the federation. But the bill, if passed int...
Sergio Batista has agreed to step down as coach of Argentina after their quarter-final exit at the Copa America. Hosts Argentina went out to champions Uruguay on penalties in the last eight.Batista, 48, had been in charge for a year, initially on a car...
Member technical committee of the Nigeria Football Federation, (NFF) Barr. Austel Elumelu, has revealed that the idea to reform football administration in Nigeria is good even though he has his reservations about the committee set up by the new ministe...
The Nigeria Premier League (NPL) has announced its Team of the Week after six games in Week 34 across six centres in the country at the weekend. The Premier League named four personnel from Ocean Boys, two each from 3SC and JUTH while Heartland, Dolphi...
Anambra State received what looked like a warning signal from floods on Sunday when a short fence demarcating the entry and exit way of the government house from a canteen situated inside the government house was pulled down by flood with water enterin...
Two former ministers, Chief Dapo Sarumi and Prince Adeseye Ogunlewe are currently embroiled in a battle of wit over their attempts to control the soul of the Lagos State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Both men have commenced moves to reposi...
Another round of shooting between two rival cult groups in Bayelsa State yesterday provoked tension in the state capital and led to the killing of a traffic warden and another unidentified youth. The new round of shooting among the cult groups is comin...
The United Nations’ Peace commission set up to help Cameroon and Nigeria resolve their border dispute has urged both countries to expedite action on the issue of demarcation of affected areas. At a recent two-day meeting in Abuja, Nigeria, the Ca...
Anambra State Association Women of Washington DC (ASAWW) has promised to extend its Scholarship Scheme to the less privileged students of Anambra State to enable them complete their dreams of higher education through funding of University education and...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday told an Abuja High Court that the Clerk of the National Assembly, Salisu Maikasuwa and his counterpart in the House of Representatives, Mr. Sanni Omolori, were neck deep in the alleged N38 b...
The war of words over President Goodluck Jonathan’s transformation agenda took a different turn yesterday, as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), took a swipe at the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), describing its advice on the agenda as unsolic...