The Kebbi Government has released N50 million to the Usmanu Danfodio University, Sokoto, as part payment of registration fees for indigent students in the institution from the state. Alhaji Murtala Yauri, the Executive Secretary of th...
The Comptroller of Prisons in Ebonyi, Mr Columbus Omenuko, says 90 per cent of awaiting trial inmates in Nigerian prisons are youths. Omenuko made this known in Abakaliki on Thursday while receiving members of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rig...
A 43-year-old man, Daniel Folorunsho, on Thursday told a Grade ‘A’ Customary court in Ojo, Lagos that his wife was engaging in adultery, under the guise of attending church vigil. Daniel, who is resident in Oke-Afo village on the Lagos-Bada...
Mr Osita Chidoka, the Corps Marshal of FRSC, says the Police have no business in the registration of vehicles ``because they were not authorised by the Joint Tax Board (JTB) to do so. “The Enhanced Central Motor Registry (ECMR) currently collecte...
The National Assembly has assured Nigerians that it would ensure proper and accelerated implementation of the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act. Mr Matthew Omagara, Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Reform of Government Institutions,...
Alhaji Baba-Adisa Bolanta, the Kebbi Commissioner of Police, has said that adequate security has been put in place for the smooth conduct of the state’s governorship re-run election on Saturday. Bolanta said this in Birnin Kebbi on T...
The timely intervention of the Adamawa Government has saved 21 women the ordeal of languishing in prison over their inability to repay the loans they obtained from some micro-finance banks in the state. Hajia Maisaratu Bello, the Permanent Secretary,&n...
The Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) on Wednesday in Abuja says it will start charging hotels and eateries for waste generated. The Director of the Board, Mr Isa Shuiabu, who disclosed this at a media briefing, noted that hotels and other ho...
INEC Chairman Attahiru Jega says the commission has concluded arrangements to ensure smooth conduct of Saturday’s governorship election rerun in Kebbi. Jega, who disclosed this at a meeting with stakeholders in Birnin Kebbi on Wednesd...
Rihanna, who recently made headlines for her alleged eight-week fling with Ashton Kutcher last December, did not try to hide her disgust when a journalist quizzed her about the rumoured romance. The rumours of romance between the 24-year-...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met Arab leaders in Baghdad on Thursday to discuss a UN backed peace plan for Syria as President Bashar al-Assad's forces continued their offensive against cities and towns across Syria. Regional leaders in Iraq for...
Former Commonwealth Secretary-General, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, on Wednesday said that Nigeria would fare better if it reverted to a regional system of government. Anyaoku made the declaration at the fourth Bola Tinubu Colloquium held in Lagos. NAN reports...
Some financial experts said election of Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Minister of Finance, as the President of World Bank, would bring development to developing nations. They said this in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos...
The UN is considering cutting back its peacekeeping mission in Sudan's strife-torn Darfur region as violence dwindles almost 10 years into the conflict, a senior official said on Wednesday. Any scaling down of the force of 28,000 soldiers and polic...
The World Bank's private-sector lending arm says it plans to invest up to 3.5 billion dollars in Sub-Saharan Africa this year, mainly in the infrastructure sector. Many nations in the region are racing to invest in their roads, rail and energy syst...