The Niger State hockey team, Niger Flickers are in danger of missing out on this year’s ICC tournament holding in Zimbabwe early next month due to lack of funds. Sources close to the team revealed that since the tournament will Clash with the Nat...
Executive governor of Akwa-Ibom state, Godswill Obot Akpabio, will on November 18, 2012 at the Nicon Luxury hotel in Abuja be honoured with the Grand Patron of the Nigeria Scrabble Federation when the prestigious Club Championship will also round up. A...
Chelsea of England duo, John Mikel Obi, Victor Moses and French based central defender, Onyekachi Apam will not be part of this week’s international friendly between Nigeria and Venezuela in Miami, Florida, United States. Head Coach, Stephen Kesh...
In August 2012, the Rivers State government, through the Ministry of Education commenced the recruitment of about 13,000 teachers for its Universal Basic Education (UBE) and Senior Secondary Schools. A total of 42,000 candidates applied for the vacanci...
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has expressed worry over increased activities of criminals who take refuge in abandoned buildings to carry out their nefarious activities in Abuja. The FCT Minister, Senator Bala Abdulkadi...
EDEGBE ODEMWINGIE reports on fresh lobbying and a cocktail of political/ethnic strategic meetings held prelude to this week’s scheduled deliberation by the House of Representatives on the new Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB). The freshly presented P...
Honourable Betty Apiafi is a member of the House of Representatives representing Abua Odual/Ahoada East Federal Constituency of Rivers State. She is the Vice-Chairman of the House Committee on Diaspora Issues. The lawmaker who was recently in the Unite...
Some Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) chieftains on Sunday extolled the virtues of Chief Lam Adesina, a former governor of Oyo State, who died on Sunday. In a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Chief Segun Osoba, a former govern...
President Goodluck Jonathan has expressed sadness over the death of elder statesman and former governor of Oyo State, Alhaji Lam Adesina. This is contained in a statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr R...
The Mobil Producing Nigeria on Sunday deployed its men and equipment to tackle a spill at its Ibeno operations in Akwa Ibom. A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) who visited the Atlantic coastline in Ibeno, reports that the spill, w...
No fewer than 20 graves will be relocated in Sapon and Ilugun in Ogun following the expansion and rehabilitation of major roads in the state. The State Government started the rehabilitation of major roads in Abeokuta on Sunday. The News Agency of Niger...
A former governor of Oyo State, Alhaji Lamidi Adesina, has died at the age of 73. Adesina, who died at St. Nicholas Hospital, Lagos, after a protracted illness, would have celebrated his 74th birthday next January. Gov. Abiola Ajimobi, who announc...
Fifty days after Gov. Sullivan Chime began his annual vacation, anxiety is mounting in Enugu State over his whereabouts. Many residents of the coal city who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at the weekend expressed worries that the governor ...
President Goodluck Jonathan, on Sunday in Abuja, called on ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government to defend the collective vision of a peaceful, stable and economically prosperous region. Jonathan made the call at the opening of an extra-ord...
The Edo North coordinator of All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), Alhaji Abdulahi Mohammed, has disclosed that over 350 hectares of cassava farm were destroyed by flood in Edo. Mohammed disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Niger...