The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on Saturday evicted some illegal occupants from its barracks in Abuja. The service gave the illegal occupants in its barracks nationwide up till April 14 to leave or face eviction. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) repo...
Eighteen female officers will be among the 85 Nigerian Navy cadets expected to graduate under the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) direct short service course. The spokesman for the Academy, Lt. Col. Abubakar Edun, told the News Agency of Nigeria (...
The Managing Director, Green Technologies, Mr. Temitope Olagija, has urged governments at all levels to invest in Jatropha plant to empower Nigerians economically. Olagija made the call while delivering his paper titled: "Emerging Trends in BioFue...
Gen.Yakubu Gowon, the Chairman, Industrial and General Insurance (IGI) Plc, announced on Friday in Lagos at the that the company recorded N10.5 billion Gross Premium in 2010 financial year, which ended Dec. 31. Gowon disclosed this at the company&rsquo...
Mr Kingsley Kuku, the Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Niger Delta Affairs, has said that the Presidential Amnesty office was not established to be a security outfit. Kuku said this in a statement signed by Mr Henry Ugbolue...
The Chairman of the Security Committee for 2012 Nwonyo Fishing Festival, Mr Sam Adda, says security agencies have been placed on red alert to ensure a hitch free festival. He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibi near Wukari in Taraba on Saturda...
The Enugu State Police Command has confirmed the release of the Spaniard, Dr Joe Machimbarrena, a medical doctor working with Niger Foundation Hospital in Enugu, after almost three weeks in captivity. He was abandoned in a place called Thinkers Corner ...
No developing nation will attain the Millennium Development Goals on reduction of child mortality, a World Bank Global Monitoring report (GMR) 2012 has revealed. The report , released at the ongoing Spring Meeting of the World Bank and the Internationa...
Chekwube Ngwoke, 24, an orphan, from Umu-Oworogu in Udenu Local Government Area of Enugu State, is now a shadow of her old self, having been bathed with acid by a woman who accused her of attempting to snatch her husband, Dozie Okafor, from...
More than two years after the Federal Government granted unconditional amnesty to militants in the Niger Delta and created avenues for the training and development of the youths, disgruntled groups of militias under the aegis of the Movement for the Em...
Ahead of deliberation on the petroleum subsidy probe report by the House of Representatives next Tuesday, EDEGBE ODEMWINGIE examines the intrigues that have trailed the release of the widely indicting report, amid reports of pressure on the committee t...
FRED ITUA examines the recent report of the Presidential Committee on the Rationalization and Restructuring of Federal Government Parastatals, Commissions and Agencies which recommended the pruning of statutory agencies from 263 to 161 to reduce govern...
Bhoja Air said all 127 people onboard one of its jets were killed yesterday in a crash near Islamabad, Pakistan. It was that nation’s worst air disaster in almost two years. The plane, a Boeing Co. 737-200 with 118 passengers and 9 crew members, ...
Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Agency (NERC), Dr. Sam Amadi, has linked the recent incidents of power outage across the country to the poor tariff system in the Nigerian Electricity Supply (NESI). He maintained that the recent shortage...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested 48 illicit drug dealers and impounded 106. 86 kilogrammes of hard drugs in the last three months. Similarly, the agency arrested 100 persons in connection with the consumption of illicit drugs withi...