Prof. Godwin Okpala, Bishop of Anglican Diocese of Nnewi, Anambra, has urged Nigerians to support President Goodluck Jonathan's Transformation Agenda meant to stimulate economic growth and check corruption in all ramifications. Okpala said this on ...
Mr Francis Evboumwan, the Commissioner for Works in Edo, on Tuesday confirmed that an Italian project manager died in the building under construction that collapsed at the Benin Central Hospital on Monday. Evboumwan, who announced the death to newsmen ...
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Bauchi State chapter, said on Tuesday that some officials of the association received text messages prior to Sunday’s church attack in the state. CAN Secretary in the state, Rev Joshua Maina, disc...
Ninety-one ships carrying various consignments of goods are expected to berth at Lagos ports from Tuesday. The Shipping Position, a document of the Nigerian Port Authority (NPA), released in Lagos on Tuesday indicated that 22 of the ships were carrying...
The House of Representatives has directed its Committee on Aviation to sit jointly with its counterpart in the Senate to investigate the immediate and remote causes of Dana plane crash in Lagos. The House also directed its committee to investigate the ...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday arraigned Timipre Sylva, ex-governor of Bayelsa at the Federal High Court in Abuja. Sylva is standing trial for alleged misappropriation of N6.46 billion state funds. The anti-graft a...
Dr. Titus Okunronmu, a Former Director in the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), on Tuesday called for effective supervision under the new banking regime. He told newsmen in Lagos that the step was necessary to save the country from recurrence of the last ...
Mr Chris Green, the Chairman of the Technical Committee of the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF), on Tuesday assured Nigerians that the Super Eagles would improve in future matches. Green told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Calabar, Cross R...
Residents of West Hartford's Quaker Green neighborhood have started mourning since they learnt on Monday that Maimuna Anyene, a Connecticut-based Nigerian woman, her four young children, and her husband, were among the 153 passengers and crew kille...
United States President, Barack Obama has condoled with the federal government of Nigeria over Sunday’s plane crash that claimed over one hundred lives. Speaking through the Secretary of State, Ms. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday night, the US P...
The House of Representatives yesterday disclosed that it was set to launch an independent inquest into the cause of the Sunday Dana Airline’s crash which claimed 153 lives of passengers on a scheduled trip from Abuja to Lagos. The Lower House spo...
Pandemonium broke out at the NNPC Depot along Makurdi-Otukpo expressway at Apir Village in Makurdi Local Government Area (LGA) of Benue State when a Lebanese expatriate (names withheld) and his concubine were knocked down and killed by a fully loaded t...
The Nasarawa State Government has warned the people in the state to shun any acts of lawlessness, saying that it will not tolerate any resort to anarchy. The State Governor, Umaru Tanko Almakura made this known when he visited Assakio...
The Engineering Materials Development Institute, EMDI, based in Akure, the Ondo State capital, is a unit of the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI), a federal government agency which is leading the way in engineering dev...
The concept “Democracy” has variations of meanings, ranging from Electoral process, to a liberal democratic system subject to its operational pattern of a given society. Conceptualizations of the concept democracy with the upholding events ...