Kano State Commissioner of Works and Housing, Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf, yesterday explained the rationale behind government’s decision to erect of bullet proof gates and fence around the government house. He said government decided to built a stro...
The controversy over who is to represent the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the appeal by Prince John Emeka, challenging the propriety of the party’s authentic winner of the Anambra North Senatorial poll yesterday stalled definite hearing of t...
The United States (US) Supreme Court has refused the concluding appeal of the verdict of a San Francisco jury that absolved Chevron Corporation of any blame for the shooting of Nigerian villagers who occupied an offshore barge in 1998. The development ...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC), has arraigned four suspects, Felix Nwosu, Sadau Isa, Aliyu Hamza Hassan and Usman Nuhu on a four-count charge of conspiracy, illegal dealing and refining of petroleum products, before a ...
A middle aged man, Mr.A.Bello has narrated how he narrowly escaped from ritual killers who kidnapped him in Ibadan and kept him for five days. Mr. Bello who has not fully recovered from the shock and psychological trauma which he passed through since l...
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has faulted a statement credited to Osun State Chapter of the People’s Democractic Party (PDP), condemning him for paying a courtesy visit to Governor Rauf Aregbesola last Sa...
A former Special Assistant to the Governor of Kaduna State, Mr. Patrick Yakowa, on Political matters, Alhaji Ibrahim Ahmadu yesterday said that the speculation that the Vice President, Namadi Sambo’s original state of origin was Edo S...
The Joint Security Task Force (JTF) on Tuesday raided a house suspected to be a hideout of Boko Haram members at Hayin Hotoro in Nassarawa Local Government Area of Kano State. The JTF spokesman, Lt Ikedichi Iweha disclosed this while conducting newsmen...
Doctors in public hospitals in Lagos State on Tuesday began an indefinite strike after suspending a three day warning strike on April 13 over improved working conditions, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Announcing the resumption of the ...
President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday urged the leadership of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party to seek ways of generating funds internally to free itself from the influence of money bags. The President gave the advice in Abuja at a forum with the n...
Mr Richard Akinbosotun, the Commercial Services Manager at Tin-Can Island Container Terminal (TICT), on Tuesday said no life was lost in the Monday tanker explosion at the terminal. He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that one diesel tank...
The Senate Committee on Aviation has directed the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) to immediately set up service stations at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. The committee also directed that similar action be carried out in other air...
Otunba Olusegun Runsewe, the Director-General, Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC), says the agency will acquire a 4.9 million dollar bio-metric data capturing machine for hotel staff in Nigeria. Runsewe disclosed this at a meeting with mem...
Defying all odds, the House of Representatives on Tuesday, began the clause by clause consideration of the Subsidy Probe report which was laid on the floor of the House last Thursday but bowed to pressure, giving a lifeline of an additional two weeks t...
The Niger State Commissioner for Health, Dr Ibrahim Sule, on Tuesday announced the discovery of one wild polio virus in the state after three years of virus-free status. He, however, described the discovery as `imported polio.'' Sule told newsm...