The executive secretary of the National Universities Commission, Prof Julius Okojie, has warned new universities against admitting students more than they have the facilities for. This was just as he enjoined them to ensure that the number of approved ...
Officials of the Lagos State Taskforce on Environment and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit stormed Ikoyi area of Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria and arrested 86 illegal squatters, food vendors and aliens in the area. The exercise was carried out base...
A Kaduna Sharia Court on Wednesday dissolved the marriage between one Maryam Ahmed and Sanusi Idris of Maje Village in the Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State, after barely 30 days of the marriage. The court also directed Maryam to refund...
The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday granted a stay of proceedings in the suits brought against the election and swearing-in of Alhaji Idris Wada as Governor of Kogi. Mr Jibrin Isah and Mr Oyebode Makinde, both of the PDP filed the suits challen...
The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday stayed proceedings to allow the former officials of the Nigerian Football Association (NFA) to appeal the court’s decision on the no-case-submission filed by the accused persons over N1.3 billion scam. ...
The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved N27 billion as 50 per cent subsidy for the supply of fertiliser to rural farmers in 2012. The Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Akinwumi Adeshina, disclosed this after the Council meeting presided over by ...
Gov. Ibrahim Dankwambo of Gombe State on Wednesday lost his four-year-old daughter, Hajara, after a brief illness. A statement issued by the Permanent Secretary in-charge of Media, Alhaji Adamu Musa, in Gombe on Wednesday, said Hajara died in Abuja. Th...
The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) in Kaduna on Wednesday confirmed that 14 people were killed in an auto crash on the Kaduna-Abuja highway in the early hours of Wednesday, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The Public Enlightenment Offic...
Nigeria’s naira fell the most in almost a week after crude exporting companies reduced dollar sales and deployed their foreign-exchange reserves to pay for gasoline imports, leaving banks short of the U.S. currency. The currency of Africa’s...
Nigerian forces swept through the remote northeast on Wednesday, searching houses for suspected Boko Haram militants after killing four in a gun battle, the military said. The crackdown on the group in its heartland of Maiduguri followed a spate of att...
The Minister of Education, Prof. Ryqayyatu Rufa’I, has called on investors to partner with the Federal Government to create an enabling learning environment in the country. Rufa’I made the call on Wednesday in Abuja at the First Worldview E...
The Senate on Wednesday accused aviation regulatory authorities of laxity and mandated its Committee on Aviation to investigate discrepancies in international air fares between Nigeria and other African countries. This followed the adoption of a motion...
Nollywood actor, Fred Amata, was on Wednesday ordered by a Surulere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos to pay one year rent arrears amounting to N600,000 to his landlord. Amata was dragged to court in September 2010 by his landlord, Pa I. Fadoyeb...
The indigenes of FCT have appealed to the Federal Government to review the FCT Land Act, which is not in favour of the indigenous people. Mr Solomon Shekwolo, Chairman of Gbagyi Youth Movement (GYM), made the appeal in Abuja on Wednesday in a statement...
Traditional rulers in Edo North senatorial district have rejected the planned zoning of the position of deputy governor to the area by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The monarchs said they had given their support to the incumbent governor, Mr Adam...