The Supreme Court yesterday dismissed the two petitions filled by the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and its gubernatorial candidate, Mr. Markus Gondiri, chall for lacking merit. Consequently, the Justice Clara Ogunbiyi-led five-man panel of the apex...
The Senate yesterday urged the Federal Government to name the Illorin International Airport after the late senator and Kwara State top politician, Dr. Olusola Saraki. The upper chamber, after paying glowing tributes to Dr Saraki via a motion sponsored ...
As the Glo Golf Tour enters its second day at the IBB Golf and Country Club in Abuja, foremost Nigerian professional golfer, Emos Korblah, has said that his eyes are on the ultimate prize. “I am participating to win the tournament. We have a lot ...
The ongoing Abuja Glo Golf Tour has produced its star prize winner. He is Mohammed Yahya Liman of the IBB Golf and Country Club Abuja who is the Hole-in-One winner. He played it at Hole 8 winning Glo’s Toyota Corolla car prize. Reacting to ...
The National Sports Commission (NSC) appeal for support for the renaissance of the country’s sports sector after the dismal performance of Team Nigeria at the London Olympics Games has received a huge boost, as Akwa Ibom State government has vowe...
Gov. Theodore Orji of Abia on Tuesday presented the 2013 budget of N134.14 billion to the state House of Assembly for approval. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the budget has an increase of N4.188 billion representing 3.2 per cent over th...
Mr Olusegun Aganga, the Minister of Trade and Investment, said in Abuja on Tuesday that Nigeria was set to remove tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade to enhance intra-African trade and regional integration. Aganga announced this at the commemoratio...
Former Head of State Yakubu Gowon, and a frontline nationalist, Alhaji Maitama Sule, on Tuesday urged Nigerians to support the Federal Government’s war against corruption. The duo made the call in Abuja at a seminar organised by the FCT Public Co...
Mr Epowei Charles, the Area Comptroller, Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMI) Customs Command, said on Tuesday that it has arrested a passenger, Onwuekwe Chidi, with over US $320,000. Charles made the revelation in a news statement made availab...
Nigeria will contribute 600 personnel to the proposed 3,200 African troops soon to be deployed to Mali, the Minister of State for Defence, Mrs Olusola Obada, said in Abuja on Tuesday. Obada announced this when the British Prime Minister’s Special...
Dr Dalhaltu Tafida, Nigeria's High Commissioner to the UK on Tuesday said plans were on to establish a Consulate outside London. Tafida, told the Western Europe Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in an interview in London that the co...
The Presidency on Tuesday confirmed the death of President Goodluck Jonathan’s younger brother, Chief Meni Jonathan. A statement issued in Abuja by the Senior Special Adviser on Media to the President, Mr Reuben Abati, said the deceased passed aw...
The Federal Government on Tuesday pledged to reposition the Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria (DICON) to make it competitive to attract local patronage of its products. Vice President Namadi Sambo made the pledge in Abuja at a meeting of the Pr...
A cross section of participants at the Conference of All Nigeria Judges of Lower Courts on Tuesday called for the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for quick dispensation of justice. The participants made the suggestion in separate ...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday advised traditional rulers in Ogun to abstain from partisan politics in order to guarantee public confidence and engender unity in their domains. Obasanjo gave the advice in Abeokuta at a one-da...