The United States Government has expressed its willingness to partner with the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) for the development of the Niger Delta region. The US Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Terence McCulley, made this known when he led top U...
The ECOWAS Commission on Thursday condemned the coup by some renegade who announced the overthrow of the government of Amodou Toure of Mali. A statement issued in Abuja and signed by the Commission's President Désiré Ouedraogo warned that the com...
Police have lost contact with a 24-year-old gunman suspected of killing seven people in the name of al Qaeda and there has been no sign of life from his apartment in Southwestern France for 10 hours, a minister said. More than a day after 300 police fi...
The Action Congress of Nigeria has, so far, presented more than 40 witnesses at the on-going Governorship election petition tribunal sitting in Lokoja. The post election legal fireworks began last week, Monday, with 10 witnesses testifying against the ...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said in Abuja on Thursday that plans for update of voters' register throughout the country was still on course. Mr Kayode Idowu, Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman Prof. Attahiru Jega, ...
The Ogun State Police Command, yesterday, said it was intensifying investigation into the call logs on the mobile phone of the late Egba High Chief and Chairman, Golf Resort Hotel, Apagun Oluwole Olumide, who reportedly committed suicide in Abeokuta la...
Mr Alex Ohikere, the Director-General, National Steel Raw Materials Exploration Agency (NSRMEA), says the agency has acquired new rig to boost exploration activities in three states of the federation. Ohikere, who spoke to newsmen in Abuja on Thursday,...
The menace of climate change, if not tackled, will deter efforts of various governments at attaining food security, says Mr Silvanus Dangoji, a lecturer at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria. Dangoji said this at a workshop on climate chang...
The United Kingdom has said that it is committed to the fight against terrorism by the radical Islamic sect, Boko Haram and several other terrorist organizations across the world. The Head of Political Section, British High Commission in Nigeria, Mr. P...
The Imo State Government said it has uncovered 3000 abandoned water projects scattered across the 27 local government areas of the state. Making the disclosure while commissioning three water schemes donated by a Non-Governmental Organization (NG...
A new Commissioner of Police has been appointed for the Osun State Police Command. She is Mrs. Kakafite Adeyemi. Mrs. Adeyemi succeeds the former Commissioner of Police, Mr. Olusegun Solomon who was recently promoted to the rank of Assistant Inspector ...
Four suspected drug barons were killed in a clash with NDLEA officials on Wednesday at Loco village in Song Local Government Area of Adamawa. The state NDLEA Commander, Alhaji Hassan Zungeru, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) i...
The National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP) in Kano State is to set up a committee to recover outstanding debts from its loan defaulters across the state. The NAPEP State Secretary, Hajiya Zainab Mohammed, disclosed this in an interview with the...
One of the new entrants to the governorship race in Ondo State, Dr Olusegun Abraham, has given his verdict on the three year administration of Governor Olusegun Mimiko in the State and concluded that it was a failure. The aspirant who is vy...
Despite all efforts by host governor Isa Yuguda and some other governors of the North-East geo-political zone, delegates in Bauchi yesterday voted for Dr. Musa Babayo, the immediate past national secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as their...