Refugee rights organizations in Cape Town are breathing a sigh of relief following a high court judgement that will force the Department of Home Affairs to reverse a policy of not accepting new asylum-seeker applications at the region's only Refuge...
Three policemen lost in Bauchi state lost their lives on Thursday when unknown gunmen opened fire on them at a patrol centre along Bauchi Gombe road. The gunmen who were said to have attacked the security officers around 8:49 am also carted away the th...
Owners of hotels, gardens and parks have complained of low patronage by members of the public as Ramadan fast enters the seventh day, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Mr Kola Oladapo, Manager of Step Down Arena, Federal Civil Service Club, tol...
The National Emergency Management Agency(NEMA) says heavier rains are imminent in the South-West Zone of the country and this may result in flooding. Mr Iyiola Akande, the Zonal Coordinator of NEMA in the South-West, gave ...
Prof. Abdulganiyu Ambali has been appointed the vice chancellor-designate of the University of Ilorin. This was contained in a press release issued on Thursday in Ilorin by the Registrar of the university, Mrs Olufolake Oyeyemi. The News Ag...
The India High Commission in Nigeria on Thursday condemned the attack on its nationals in Maiduguri and called on the Federal Government to thoroughly investigate the incident. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that two Indians were killed on We...
A woman, Mary Okechukwu, 41, on Thursday dragged her husband, Onyema, before grade ‘A’ Customary Court, Ojo, seeking dissolution of their six years old marriage due to her husband’s dirtiness. Mary,who sells second hand clothes, said ...
The Comptroller-General, Nigeria Immigration Service, Mrs Rose Uzoma, said on Thursday that henceforth, ECOWAS citizens without valid travel documents would not be allowed into the country. Uzoma, who said this in Abuja at a meeting with the state comp...
Fear gripped the Head of Service in Benue State, Mr. Mike Iordye, and the Commissioner of Works, Housing and Transport, Mr. Benjamin Ashaver, and that of Sports, Mr. Aondowase Chia, yesterday, when they were locked out of the State Executive Council (S...
The Minister of Environment, Mrs. Hadiza Ibrahim Mailafia, has reaffirmed the resolve of the Federal Government to check the problems of land degradation, desertification, food insecurity and impoverishment of communities in the dry land regions of Nig...
The Peoples Democratic Party councillorship primaries in Argungu Local Government Area of Kebbi State which held on Tuesday were marred by violence that involved two factions of the party. The clash between the factions headed by Alhaji Salihu Ahmed K ...
Kaduna State Christians Pilgrims Welfare Board has said that necessary preparations towards a hitch free 2012 pilgrimage are at an advance stage. The Executive Secretary of the Board, Rev (Dr) Joseph Jatua Yari disclosed this in Kaduna while briefing n...
The Nigeria Premier League (NPL) Acting Executive Secretary, TunjiBabalola, has expressed confidence in team Nigeria participating in the London Olympics, saying that with the level of performance they put up in the course of their pre-Olympic preparat...
Brazil has waited a long time for an Olympic gold in men’s football, and the team enters the London Games confident that the wait is finally about to end. Brazil will make its debut in the Olympic tournament on Thursday against Egypt at the Mille...
The Great Britain women’s football team kicked off the 2012 Olympics with a hard-fought 1-0 victory over New Zealand at a sun-soaked Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. Hope Powell’s GB team were making their first appearance in the women’...