Indications have emerged that Lagos State Government may ban the use of commercial motorcycles, also known as Okada, in the ever busy metropolis in the New Year. Submitting its report to the state governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, at the Ikeja Lag...
Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi has condemned the terror attacks on some churches that led to the death of some people and destruction of property on Christmas Day. Fayemi described the act as worrisome and called for more vigilance on the part of t...
After a long and anxious wait, the Supreme Court yesterday dismissed an appeal filed by the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and affirmed the victory of President Goodluck Jonathan and his vice Namadi Sambo in the April 16,2011 presidential electi...
Rampaging lending rates appear to have slowed following the closure of most businesses in the country. Pressure was also taken off liquidity following the closure of the foreign exchange (forex) official market last week. All the tenured inter-bank rat...
The National Association of Seadogs (NAS) yesterday described the members of the Boko Haram Islamic sect and their faceless sponsors as ‘cowards.’ The NAS made this declaration in a statement issued yesterday in Yenagoa by its leader...
A member of the National Assembly Joint Committee on Constitution Review, Senator Magnus Ngei Abe has said that about 40 requests for the creation of new states in the country are currently before the National Assembly. Abe, who is the senator represen...
The second batch of 17 beneficiaries of the Niger Delta amnesty programme have arrived Poland on a two-year training programme. Polish Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Niesioywski Przemyslaw, announced this yesterday in an interview with the News Agency...
The lingering violence in Jos, the Plateau State capital, has shoot up the rents of houses in the Southern part of the city, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. NAN correspondents, who went round some parts of the city, report that rents had skyr...
The Acting National Chairman of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Abubakar Baraje, yesterday described the Christmas Day bombings in parts of the country by the dreaded Boko Haram sect as a terrorist act. Alhaji Baraje made this declara...
A member representing Kabba- Bunu/Ijumu Federal Constituency, Hon. Yusuf Ayo Tajudeen has said that by the first quarter of next year, he will sink 60 bore-holes in every ward across the constituency. He said that it was his duty as a House of Represen...
Following the terrorist activities of the Boko Haram Islamic sect, groups under the aegis of the Arewa Civil Societies Forum (ASCF) has called for the sack of security chiefs in the country, for their failure to protect the life and property of the Nig...
As the January governorship election in Adamawa State approaches, the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) has descibed as a sign of fear the claim by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that the CPC is planning to rig the election. In a press statemen...
Rookie Norris Cole was the star man for the Miami Heat as they beat Boston 115-107 to maintain their impressive start to the National Basketball Association season. They handed the Celtics their second consecutive loss. The Heat, beaten by Dallas in la...
Dolphin coach Stanley Eguma is worried about the weakness of the team. The NPL champions will line out today in the Super Cup against Heartland in Kaduna. “We will make do with the players we presently have in camp as most of our top stars are on...
Senegal is hitting next month’s Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea with seven world-class strikers. The Senegalese Football Association named their final squad for the competition yesterday. The coach Amara Traore 23-man s...