Shock and disbelief were yesterday written boldly on the faces residents of Onitsha as Governor Peter Obi in the early hours of the morning stormed the town to flag off the demolition of illegal structures and personally supervised it along the Upper I...
President Goodluck Jonathan will today (Tuesday) leave the country to attend the United Nations’ Earth Summit, RIO+20, opening in Brazil tomorrow. A statement by his special adviser on media and publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati noted that Jonathan wou...
The Chairman, Presidential Technical Committee on Land Reform (PTCLR), Professor Peter Adeniyi has assured land owners in the country not to panic over land reform, and said that it was not meant to repeal the Land Use Act, but to strengthen capacity f...
Former Minister of Interior and Chairman Genesis Worldwide Shipping, parent company of Integrated Oil & Gas Ltd, Capt. Emmanuel Ihenacho (retd.) has foretold that oil subsidy budget by the federal government for 2013 fiscal year will surpass the N8...
The Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Kaduna State, Rev. Samuel Kujiyat, on Monday urged the people in the north to resolve the on going crises in the region. Kujiyat, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria ...
Road accident rate now stands at 4,000 yearly in Nigeria, but the FRSC says it is working to reduce the rate by half by 2020. Mr. Osita Chidoka, the Corps Marshal of Federal Road Safety Commission, made this known in Jos on Monday in a message to road ...
The Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI) and the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) on Monday condemned the explosions in Zaria and Kaduna and the reprisals in parts of Kaduna State on Sunday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalled that three bombs explode...
Arik Air has begun a partnership with Lufthansa of Germany for the local maintenance of Arik aircraft to ensure flight safety. Capt. Ado Sanusi, Arik Air Vice President for Flight Operations, confirmed this to journalists in Lagos after their tour of t...
Mr Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the Governor of CBN, on Monday said that the donation made by the bank to bomb blast victims was within the confines of the law. Lamido said this at an investigative hearing on the expenditure of public fund by the CBN and the ...
Participants on Monday converged on Lagos ahead of a conference by 20 African countries to discuss ways of ridding the continent of substandard products. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that as a prelude to the meeting, some of the participati...
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has appointed Defence Minister, Prince Salman, as crown prince and heir apparent, a Royal Decree has said. The appointment was announced one day after the burial of Crown Prince and Interior Minister Nayef, who died on ...
The Katsina State Police Command has arraigned one Ahmad Musa before a Katsina Chief Magistrateas' Court III for arson. Musa was accused of burning down the Funtua Upper Shariah Court on June 4. Police prosecutor Okolo Usman told the court that the...
President Goodluck Jonathan will depart Abuja on Tuesday for the UN Earth Summit, RIO+20, opening in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, on Wednesday.A statement by Dr Reuben Abati, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, in Abuja on Monday, s...
Gov. Patrick Yakowa of Kaduna State on Monday cautioned the people against reprisal attacks. Yakowa made the appeal during a visit to ECWA and Ahmadu Bello Univesity Teaching Hospital, Shika in Zaria, to commiserate with the victims of Sunday’s b...
Dr Olusegun Aganaga, the Minister of Trade and Investment, says that the Federal Government is partnering with the private sector to establish industrial parks to facilitate industrial development. Aganga said this in Abuja on Monday at the opening of ...