The Presidential Amnesty Office (PAO) said on Thursday in Abuja that 30 former militants had been offered welding and fabrication employment by the Proclad Group of Companies in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). Mr Kingsley Kuku, the Chairman of PAO, ...
There is crisis in the home of former military head of state, the late Sani Abacha. A telephone operator in the family house, who is standing trial before a Kano Chief Magistrate’s Court over alleged theft of jewelries belonging to former First L...
The National Lottery Regulatory Commission (NLRC) on Thursday in Abuja said the public has nothing to fear about the ongoing ``MTN Ulimate Wonder Promo’’. A statement signed by the commission’s Assistant Director, Media and Public Aff...
The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajiya Zainab Maina, has unveiled a gender policy for the Nigeria Police. Speaking at the unveiling of the policy in Abuja on Thursday, the minister said that the policy when implemented, would elim...
Nigeria dominated Powerlifting at the London 2012 Paralympic Games with six gold medals in their 12-medal haul from 20 events.
The federal government will not stop the trial of some of the oil marketers indicted by the Aig-Imoukhuede Committee set up to investigate fuel subsidy claims by the marketers currently standing trial in the Lagos High Court in Ikeja, Lagos. There are ...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday stormed the National Stadium, Abuja, where he urged members of the national football team, the Super Eagles to ensure that their encounter with Lone Stars of Liberia in Moronvia on Saturday was a huge success. The ...
It is no longer news that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will introduce the N5,000 note into circulation in 2013 as part of a comprehensive currency restructuring exercise and also the lower naira denominations of N20, N10 and N5 will be made coins....
The Canadian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ambassador Chris Cooter, has described his country’s trade relations with Nigeria as mutually beneficiall, pegging the volume of trade between the two countries at $3billion. In a media chat with LEADERS...
President Goodluck Jonathan said, yesterday, that he will fill the two ministerial vacancies brought about by the resignation of the Power Minister, Prof. Barth Nnaji and the removal of Defence Minister, Dr. Haliru Bello as soon as the Senate resumes f...
The Nigerian Navy yesterday rescued retook an oil tanker, MT Abu Dhabi Star, hijacked off the coast of Lagos, freeing 23 Indian sailors held hostage by pirates who fled as the navy arrived, a report by the Associated Press said. None of the sailors was...
President Goodluck Jonathan has directed relevant government agencies to ensure full implementation of the white paper on the Presidential Committee on Strategic Plans for Engineering Development and Control released since 2005. The President revealed ...
Authorities of the Joint Military Task Force (JTF) code named ‘Operation Pulo Shield’ yesterday announced that it has intercepted a cache of arms and ammunition in the Ajudaibo Community in the Warri South Local Government Area of Delta Sta...
Two years after the Edo State government signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Azura Power (West Africa) Ltd to build a 450mw Independent Power Plant (IPP) near Benin City the state capital, the firm is yet to commence any construction ...
Akwa Ibom State government has set up a panel to investigate the double payment of salaries to civil servants in some government parastatals in the state. This followed reports sent to the finance ministry by unnamed parastatals. Inaugurating the...