At least 18 people were killed while nine others were seriously injured after an early morning crash that occurred at about 01:35 hours along the Kwale– Gwagwalada road involving a Marcopolo luxury bus with registration number XG 413 FGG and a J5 bus marked XA 726 NSR. According to a statement by Mr. Jonas Agwu, [...]
The police said the blasts which rocked a very busy and popular area of Karu, one of the satellite towns of the Federal Capital Territory, was caused by an industrial gas cylinder and not from bomb as being speculated. The blast which occurred early Monday evening in an area near an outlet of popular fast [...]
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan remains optimistic that his government would find a panacea to the increasing wave of terrorism and palpable insecurity, worsened by the recent killing of seven foreign workers of SETRACO. At a meeting in Abuja today with a 45-man business leaders from the United States, Jonathan Tuesday gave the assurance that his [...]
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former Kano governor, Ibrahim Shekarau and Chief Justice Aloma Mukhtar, were among the dignitaries at the launch of a book in honour of Justice Muhammed Uwais, in Abuja Thursday. The book was titled: Reflections on the Nigerian Electoral System: Essays in Honour of Honourable Justice Uwais. Rep member, Bamidele Opeyemi, [...]
A Nigerian who accused his wife of alleged adultery, on Wednesday told a Gwagwalada Upper Area Court in Abuja that she denied him sex for over a year, while having an affair with another man.. Alhaji Bala Ibrahim,, who was led in evidence by the police prosecutor, Insp. Martha Paul, told the court that he [...]
Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff said Saturday that her government will seek to boost energy ties with Nigeria, Africa’s top oil producer, after meeting President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja. Nigeria is Brazil’s main commercial partner in Africa, with bilateral trade soaring from $1.5 billion (1.1 billion euros) in 2002 to $9 billion last year. Brazil’s state-owned [...]
President Goodluck Jonathan will receive President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil tomorrow in Abuja and hold talks with her on the further expansion of trade and economic relations between Nigeria and Brazil. President Rousseff’s official visit to Nigerian is in furtherance of efforts to boost economic and developmental cooperation between Nigeria and Brazil which were initiated [...]
