The United Nations General Assembly is meeting today to elect five non-permanent members to the Security Council for two-year terms beginning on 1 January 2013. At UN Headquarters in New York, the 193-member Assembly will conduct the election by...
ASHTON Kutcher has topped a new list of the best paid TV stars with a whacking £15 million paycheck. The majority of the massive fortune – earned between May 2011 and May 2012 – comes from his role in hit sitcom Two And A Half ...
Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday granted bail to one Charles Okafor, charged with hijacking an oil vessel. The judge granted Okafor bail in the sum of two million naira with one surety in like sum. A...
HIV/AIDS prevalence rate has dropped from over three per cent to two per cent in Katsina State, the Executive Secretary of the Katsina State Agency for the Control of AIDS (SACA), Dr Muntari Hassan, has revealed. Hassan made the revelati...
Two United Nations agencies today launched a new initiative called ‘m-Health’ to use mobile technology, particularly text messaging and applications, to help tackle non-communicable illnesses such as diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease...
Davido aka 'Omo Baba Olowo' is out with a new video for his hit single, “Gbon Gbon” off his debut album, “O.B.O: THE GENESIS”. The video, shot in Lagos, was produced by Shizzi and directed by Clarence Peters .
President Goodluck Jonathan will on Thursday pay a working visit to Niamey, Niger Republic, for a scheduled meeting of the High Authority of the Nigeria-Niger Joint Commission. This is contained in a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja by the Specia...
With polls suggesting women voters were shifting their support to Mitt Romney, President Barack Obama made an aggressive pitch to them on Tuesday that yielded awkward moments for the Republican and a favourite new catch phrase on social media. Obama hi...
President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday expressed concern over the outright looting of public funds by some Nigerians. Jonathan expressed the concern while swearing in the Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences ...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Wednesday in Abuja warned petroleum products marketers against diverting and hoarding the products. Mr Fidel Pepple, acting Group General Manager, Public Affairs Division of the NNPC, gave the warni...
Transactions on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) remained on the upbeat on Wednesday as the market indices grew by 0.31 per cent The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the All-Share Index appreciated by 84.51 points or 0.31 per cent to close at...
Justice Lateefat Okunnu of an Ikeja High Court, Lagos, on Wednesday granted bail to an oil marketer, Abdullahi Alao, charged with conspiring with others to commit N1.1 billion fuel subsidy fraud. Abdullahi, son of a prominent businessman, Alhaji Abdull...
The police in Delta have arrested six persons for allegedly vandalising an oil well head and removing the spray pump at Oleh in Isoko South Local Government Area of the state. Mr Charles Muka, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Delta State Pol...
Mr Odeyinka Popoola, Manager of Festac Business Unit of the PHCN, on Wednesday said that the unit was being owed about N1.5 billion by customers. Popoola, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, said that it was unfortunate that...
The Board Chairman of the Legal Aid Council, Mr Bolaji Ayorinde, on Wednesday in Abuja called for a review of the 2011 Legal Aid Council Act to ensure better service delivery. Ayorinde, who made the call at a pre-event news conference said that u...