A 48- year- old roadside roasted yam seller, Mrs.Titilayo Akogun yesterday sustained a serious head injury in a ghastly auto crash along with her daughter, Busayo Akogun, 28, who later died in hospital as a result of the injuries she sustained in...
Indications emerged last night that the National Judicial Council (NJC) had given certain conditions to the suspended President, Court of Appeal (PCA), Justice Isa Salami, before he could be reinstated. Salami was suspended by the NJC on August 18, 201...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday condemned plans to lay off about 28,000 workers from next year as a way of cutting down on recurrent expenditure and has therefore vowed to resist the move. Deputy President of NLC, Co...
It was a gory sight in the Yenizue-Gene suburb of Yenagoa, Tuesday evening when a lorry crushed two persons on a commercial motorcycle to death, causing heavy vehicular traffic along the Sani Abacha Way in the state. The incident occurred at the ...
A senior United Nations official and the renowned singer-songwriter Angélique Kidjo has urged Nigeria, UN Member States and communities to outlaw Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and raise awareness about its harmful effects, especially in African coun...
Construction giant, Julius Berger Nigeria Plc has dragged the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to an Abuja High Court in a N25 million suit, alleging that the regulator issued it a dud cheque, which caused the company much embarrassmen...
Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has said that about 11,000 immigrants repatriated or refused admission recently were not members of the Boko Haram sect. The Public Relations Officer of the service and an assistant Comptroller of the Servi...
The executive secretary of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Prof. Bem Angwe, has urged National and State Assemblies to be proactive in enacting laws that protect the rights of ordinary Nigerians. Angwe said this while receiving a delegation...
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Kaduna State Chapter, has tasked Governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa to engage the youths of the State positively in a way that will benefit the State’s economy and bring about a lasting peace. This was just as i...
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has given an order for the arrest of more than 3,125 motorists for various traffic offences in the city within two months. A statement issued in Abuja on Monday said the FCT Minister, Sen. Bala ...
The arraignment of six dismissed police officers who allegedly murdered one Gabriel Rabo (an armed robbery suspect) yesterday failed to hold due to the absence of three of the accused persons who were reportedly sick and hospitalized. According to the ...
Zamfara State government is looking inwards for considering ways of diversifying its economic potentials in an effort to foster a sustainable and self-reliant economy. The decision was motivated by the discovery of variety of huge deposits of mineral r...
Statistic has showed that in 10 out of the 19 northern states of the country, each year the desert advances another 600 metres further south. Indeed, Kano, Katsina, Zamfara, Sokoto, Borno and Yobe are among the worst hit states. Scores of farmers and t...
State governor, Hajiya Fatima Shema, yesterday launched the sales of grains at subsidized prices to women in the state. Speaking at the launch which was witnessed by women from different strata in the state, Mrs Shema said the measure was aimed at miti...
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, will today launch a new official website of the State designed to set a robust integrated multimedia digital media channels- online, social media and mobile media. In a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to t...