Muscleman, turned movie star, turned California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is returning to the movies. He's on the New Mexico set of "The Last Stand," playing the starring roleas a small town border sheriff. The a...
A Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday fixed December 6 for further hearing in a suit by the suspended president, Court of Appeal (PCA), Justice Isa Salami, and at the same time ruled that all the preliminary objections filed by all the respondents be...
Mother of the 25 year-year old student, Victor Emmanuel, shot dead on Sunday by a trigger-happy policeman in Bayelsa State, Mrs. Grace Victor, yesterday relieved the gory details of the tragedy.Pensively, she said that her son’s dream of particip...
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola yesterday named the new Igbogbo scheme 11 housing estate Ikorodu, after the late member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Rotimi Shotomiwa.He said the need to immortalise the late lawmaker who repres...
The minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senator Bala Mohammed, has attributed the high rate of road crashes in the city to the poor driving attitude of drivers and indiscipline.The minister said this yesterday when he flagged-off the ...
The Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) yesterday struck out a petition by the senatorial candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Alhaji Tanko Abari, against the election of Senator Philip Ad...
The National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP) has joined its counterparts all over the world to mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (IDEP).Speaking at the opening ceremony, the Senior Special Assistant to the President (SSAP)...
The Federal Government has given flour millers in the country a three-month ultimatum to commence the 10 per cent substitution of cassava flour for wheat flour being imported into the country.The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Akinwu...
The House of Representatives on Tuesday faulted the decision of the federal government to withdraw some regulatory agencies from all the entry points across the country, asking it to revert back to the former arrangement.Specifically, the members have ...
The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Oil and Gas Free Zone Authority, Dr. Noble Abe, has identified technical inefficiency as the major reason for premium motor spirit (PMS) or petrol importation in the country and advised the federal g...
Bowleven , a West African oil and gas group, based in Edinburgh and traded on AIM since December 2004 has announced the discovery of oil at the Sapele-3 exploration well drilling in the Douala Basin, offshore Cameroon.Chief Executive, Kevin Hart,...
Skye Bank has posted a gross earning of N73.3 billion in the third quarter ended September 30,2011, an 11 per cent growth over the N66.2 billion posted in the comparable period of last year.Profit after tax also rose by nearly 10 per cent to N9.4 billi...
The governors of Edo and Rivers States,Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and Mr. Rotimi Amaechi have faulted the federal government on the allocation of about 73 per cent of the total budget to recurrent expenditure.The governors said this yesterday...
Women who are stressed while trying to conceive are more likely to have girls, research suggests.According to the new study , women who were under pressure at home, work or in their love lives in the weeks or months before getting pregnant had higher c...
Determined to help the unhappy, SOLOMON NDA-ISAIAH writes that Kambili Osadolor-Ehima is at home with making orphans feel a sense of belonging. I could not bear the sight of the deplorable building. It was too really bad. The roof, walls, w...