The International Labour Organisation (ILO) believes labour market regulations are not too rigid in South Africa and cannot be blamed for high unemployment, it was reported on Monday. According to the reports, ILO South African director Vic van ...
The pinning of service delivery violence on the African National Congress (ANC) and its youth league in the Western Cape is a publicity stunt, the party said on Monday. "It is typical of the Democratic Alliance to shift the focus ...
Against many odds South African intern manger, Keagan emerged as the winner of the seventh season of the Big Brother Africa show. In a nerve-wracking grand finale in his home country yesterday, Keagan overcome six other finalists in claiming the $300,0...
Team Nigeria has described as ‘’baseless’’ reports linking it to black market tickets at the London 2012 Olympics. Unconfirmed reports spread like wild fire yesterday mentioning a number of countries as having their delegation t...
Nigeria’s national basketball team, D’Tigers will this afternoon at the Basketball Arena of the Olympic Stadium in London play European powerhouse in their last preliminary game. The clash remains the only chance for the Nigerian men’...
Former Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, (FIRS), Mrs. Ifueko Omoigui Okauru, has been appointed to the Board of Diamond Bank Plc, making her the third woman on the bank’s board. Okauru’s appointment which is subject to the app...
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has called on the Presidency and the National Assembly to urgently investigate claims by the State Security Service (SSS) that it has arrested the suspected killers of Comrade Olaitan Oyerinde, a former senior aide ...
The Jamaatu Ahlis Sunnah Lil Daawati wal Jihad, popularly called Boko Haram, has said that it would not negotiate with any government representative and had no plans to do so. In a half-hour video made in Hausa and posted on YouTube, the sect called on...
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency has warned of heavy rainfall which may lead to flooding between August and October in some states of the federation. A statement signed and made available to newsmen in Abuja at the weekend by Eleazar Obende of NIMET ...
The Joint Military Task Force (JTF) on Petroleum Products yesterday set fire to a tanker loaded with 33,000 litres of diesel believed to be adulterated at Ibangwa in Abak Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. The heavy duty truck with Adamawa regis...
The Ponyan community in Kogi State have staged a peaceful protest over the sudden demise of Mr. Simon Ige Olutimayin,one of the newly appointed commissioners in the state. LEADERSHIP gathered that hundreds of youths of the community, ...
Bauchi State Government has expressed worry that the Federal Government is yet to reimburse it the N2.3billion it contributed to the local government pension fund for retired local government workers in the state, The State Chairman of Local Government...
No fewer than 139 prison inmates awaiting trial in six prisons across Niger State have regained their freedom as the Chief Judge of the state, Justice Jibrin Ndajiwo concludes the tour of the prisons to conduct on the spot trial of the cases. The...
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), yesterday, slammed the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) over its comment on state creation in the ongoing constitutional review by the National Assembly. The ACF had in its memorandum told the National Assembly...
Kwara State Commissioner for Works, Dr. Abubakar Kannike, in this interview with ABDULLAHI OLESIN, explains the milestones that the administration of Governor AbdulFatah Ahmed has recorded in roads construction and rehabilitation in the past one year. ...