About 50 passengers were feared dead Tuesday, after an unidentified luxury bus and truck ran over them at Zariagi, on the Okene-Lokoja road, Kogi State. The victims were said to be travelling from Lagos to Abuja when their bus was stopped by rob...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has stated that the commission currently has at least 1,500 cases of graft allegations pending in various courts nationwide. The figure, our investigations revealed, covers cases inherited from Nuhu R...
Technology; often used as the generic term to encompass all the technologies people develop and use in their lives (from the internet, mobile phones, to electrical appliances and aircraft) and a wide array of things we take for granted in today’s...
The Bayelsa State governor, Chief Timipre Sylva yesterday queried the rationale behind the demand by the state workers for the implementation of the N18,000 minimum wage, even as he said that the services they offered were not commensurate with wages p...
Over 500 personnel of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), who will form the nucleus of the Civil Defence Armed Squad, are presently being subjected to three months of intensive training in arms and weapons handling at the Prisons Arm...
The crisis-ridden Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State yesterday in Ibadan announced the expulsion of senators Lekan Balogun, Teslim Folarin and six other chieftains of the party for anti-party activities which led to the dismal performance of t...
The controversy generated by the match between Nigeria and Argentina is yet to abate with the news that the centre referee of the encounter, Ibrahim Chaibou, a Nigerien cannot be found. It was reported that as the match was ongoing, the betting pattern...
Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of Kano State and professional golfers, have commended the Dangote Cement company for sponsoring the just concluded Emir of Kano (Open) Pro-Am golf tournament. Speaking at the closing ceremony, the governor described Dango...
Following threats by the organised labour to down tools over the non-implementation of the N18,000 minimum wage, the federal government yesterday bowed to the demand by agreeing to implement the new wage from grade level 01 to 17. This decision was rea...
With barely two days into Ramadan, another bomb, suspected to have been planted by the members of the Jamatul Ahlis Sunnah lid Daawa wal Jihad, popularly known as Boko Haram, exploded at Gomari Airport Ward in Maiduguri metropolis, Borno State. One per...
The immediate past chairman of the All Nigeria Peoples Party ANPP and former Speaker of the House of Representatives in the defunct Second Republic Chief Edwin Ume-Ezeoke is dead. He died in India in the early hours of yesterday at the age of 76. Ume-E...
The All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) has called for immediate probe of the eight-year tenure of former President Olusegun Obasanjo just as it advocated a national conference to enable Nigerians deliberate on numerous problems facing the country. S...
Former Chairman of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Chief Edwin Ume-Ezeoke is dead. He died Monday, in India. Read details later
The proposed six-year single term tenure for president and governors being promoted by President Goodluck Jonathan has received a hard knock from Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi. Fayemi who was responding to questions on his monthly media chat,...
The strike embarked upon by staff of Edo State House of Assembly yesterday took a new dimension as angry workers locked out the Speaker, Hon. Uyi Igbe and other principal officers from parliamentary proceedings over their non-inclusion in the new minim...