Volume of shares traded on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) dropped by 37.5 per cent on Wednesday as 253.92 million shares worth N2.42 billion were traded in 4,181 deals. This was in contrast to the 406.29 million shares worth N 3.11 billion exc...
The Federal Government has promised to assist the Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) towards a successful outing at the 2012 London Olympic Games. The Supervising Minister of Sports, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, made the pledge on Tuesday in Abuja during the ...
Schalke have activated the purchase clause in Chinedu Obasi’s loan contract from Hoffenheim, securing the attacker’s signature until 2015 for the sum of €5 million. The 25-year-old becomes the second player to agree a move to the Royal...
Nigeria’s Super Eagles will face Iran’s national football team, the Persian Stars in an international friendly pending ratification from the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). The game has been provisionally fixed for April 18 in Tehran, Ir...
Efforts to resuscitate the moribund Nigeria’s railway system by the current management of the Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) are already yielding results despite obvious challenges. NRC’s managing director, Engr. Adeseyi Sijuwade, in thi...
Christian Youths led by Dr. Sulieman Shuiabu and Mr. Digi Haruna yesterday visited the national headquarters of the Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI) and pledged to work with its Muslim brothers towards ending the spate of ethno-religious violence in t...
The co-pilot of the ill-fated police surveillance helicopter which crashed in Jos on March 14, CSP Hannaniah Pwol-Ja, was buried yesterday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that Pwol-Ja was among the four top police officers, including DIG Har...
To avert the looming fresh water crisis by the year 2025, a draft bill is in the works by the Federal Government that would regulate the use of fresh water when it is passed into law by the National Assembly. Minister of Water Resources, Mrs. Sarah Och...
A seven-man committee has been set up by Niger State House of Assembly to investigate the circumstances surrounding the withholding of some local government workers’ salaries for over six months following the recent screening ex...
Medical and Health Workers’ Union of Nigeria (MHWUN) has expressed worries over the growing cases of discrimination against its members affected by HIV virus in the cause of their work. Chairman of the Kano Chapter of the union, Comrade Kabiru Ad...
The wife of the Gombe State Governor, Hajia Adama Dankwambo has introduced a health assisted project scheme that offered free Vesicular Vagina Fistula (VVF) surgery to women across the state in Gombe Specialist Hospital. The Spe...
The friends of former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu have denied a report credited to Sahara Reporters, an online news media, that the state and local government councils have been mandated to contribute N1 billion to fund Tinubu’s ...
The Lagos State Government has warned residents of the state to brace up for intense raining season, saying persistent rainfall for 236 days that will come with rainstorms capable of uprooting trees, cables and house roofs is imminent in 2012. The Lago...
AC Milan attacker Zlatan Ibrahimovic is eagerly anticipating the first leg of the Rossoneri’s Champions League quarter-final against Barcelona, but the forward is unsure as to whether he will shake hands with Pep Guardiola today. The Sweden inter...
Roger Federer’s run of 16 victories came to an end with a surprise defeat to American Andy Roddick in the third round of the Sony Ericsson Open, losing 7-6 1-6 6-4. Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic, bidding for his second title of the seas...