Gov. Theodore Orji of Abia has threatened to pull down 1,800 buildings allegedly built on sewer lanes in Aba, the economic hub of the state. Orji issued the threat on Monday in Umuahia, while briefing newsmen on the plans by his administration to trans...
Gov. Kashim Shettima of Borno said on Monday that the state would partner with German firms to set up power plants to address the energy challenges in the state. He made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Berlin, G...
Two employees were on Monday arraigned in Lagos over the alleged theft of three truck-loads of the company's products, Gino tin tomatoes and Bama Mayonnaise, valued at N31 million. Akeem Akinbola (31), of No. 61c, Bale Aiyetoro St., Ajegu...
The Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Oluseyi Petinrin, said on Monday in Abuja that discussions were under way to make Nigeria’s peacekeeping contribution better and more coordinated. Petinirin said this at the opening of the 3rd ECOWAS ...
Local government elections in Abia will hold in January 2013, baring unforeseen circumstances, Gov. Theodore Orji, has said. The governor said this on Monday in Umuahia while briefing newsmen on some of the landmark achievements recorded by his adminis...
An aviation group-- Civil Aviation Round Table-- has asked a Federal High Court in Lagos to nullify the proceedings of the ongoing coroner's inquest into the June 3 Dana Air plane crash. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that 153 passengers ...
MICHAEL Jackson was a booze-fuelled “basket case” in the weeks before he died, shock new documents reveal. They show Jacko didn’t rehearse, needed pyschiatric treatment and refused to sing at practices before his attempted come...
A video editor with the DBS Media Company, Lagos, Michael Falade, was on Monday arraigned before a Surulere Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, for allegedly stealing N575,870 belonging to the company. Falade, 20, of 50 Wosilatu St., off Pako Aguda, Surul...
Gov. Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State says his administration will replicate the German model of small and medium scale enterprises development to address the challenges bedeviling prospective entrepreneurs in the state. Amaechi said this in an int...
The Kano State Government has requested the National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP) to return the N50 million it released to the agency in the state for the implementation of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme. The Conditional Cash Transf...
A Yaba Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Monday sentenced 21-year-old office assistant, Segun Adeyemi, to one year imprisonment for stealing three laptop computers valued at N300,000. Magistrate Patrick Adekomaya handed down the sentence, follo...
The Plateau Government on Monday inaugurated a committee to compile a book on the centenary anniversary of the state. Mr Shedrack Best, Secretary to the State Government (SSG), who inaugurated the committee, said the members would within...
A car bomb exploded on Monday in a religiously mixed district on the edge of the Syrian capital Damascus, causing casualties including women and children, state media and opposition campaigners said. The Local Coordination Committees said ambulances we...
The Commonwealth Secretariat is convening a global conference to discuss the unique development challenges of small states and explore policy options to address them. The Second Global Biennial Conference on Small States will take place on 17 an...
The wife of the abducted Monarch of the Okordia clan in Ikarama community of Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State,Mrs. Evelyn Seiba, was weekend arrested by the men of the State Police command over her recent telephone conversation with...