Year: 2015
Ex-service men donate N400,000 to widows of fallen colleagues
Kogi chapter of the Nigerian Legion of ex-service men has donated N400, 000 cash as its contribution to the upkeep…
Boko Haram: Senator gives scholarship to slain soldier’s children
FEMI ADI/Kaduna Senator Shehu Sani has granted scholarship to children of a soldier, Corporal Musa Ibrahim that was killed in…
Mourinho gives another excuse for Chelsea’s loss
Jose Mourinho has given another excuse for his side’s loss on Saturday, saying his side deserved more from the match…
Boko Haram most challenging problem of my govt.- Buhari
Femi Adi/Kaduna President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that Boko Haram insurgency has remained the most difficult challenge of his administration.…
Boko Haram: Northeast legislators seek special intervention for reconstruction
Rep. Sidi Karasuwa, Representing Nguru, Machina, Karsuwa and Yusufari Federal Constituency, said northeast legislators in the National Assembly had concluded…
Saraki commiserates with Saudi Arabia over Mecca crane collapse
The President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, has commiserated with the Saudi Arabian authorities and the Muslim Ummah over death…
Assets declaration: CACOL slams APC governors
Eromosele Ebhomele The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders, CACOL, on Saturday condemned governors on the platform of the All Progressives Congress,…
Fashola alerts public on compromised Twitter account
Former Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) at the weekend drew attention of members of the public to…
All Africa Games: Nigeria sets up Technical Study Group
Taiwo Adelu The National Sports Commission, NSC, has set up a Technical Study Group (TSG) to monitor the performance of…
Visionary Nigerian leaders leave good names, not vast estates, says Osinbajo
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN has called on Nigerian leaders to aspire to win the people’s heart rather than enrich…
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Iheanacho steals the headline, grabs winner for Man City
Premier League leaders Manchester City continued their 100% start to the season with an injury time winner over their nearest…
Board sets up mobile court to prosecute sanitation offenders
The Lokoja Sanitation and Waste Management Board (LSWMB) has set up a mobile court to prosecute sanitation offenders in the…
NUC approves Ul’s news School of Business
Authorities of the University of Ibadan (UI) on Saturday said the National Universities Commission (NUC) has approved the establishment of…
Internet usage in Nigeria hits 93 million – NCC
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) said that the number of internet users on the country’s telecom networks increased to more…
IDPs agitate for vocational skills training
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Yobe on Saturday appealed to the state government to provide them with vocational training and…
Be sensitivite to plight of slum dwellers, CDHRDA tells Govt
The Centre for the Defense of Human Rights and Democracy in Africa (CDHRDA) on Friday urged public office holders on…
Curtailing Fire Outbreaks In Lagos
Tayo Ogunbiyi Considering recent spate of fire outbreaks in which scores of human lives have been terminated and billions of…
Boko Haram: Buhari lauds Armed forces, warns that human rights abuses will be punished
Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari, reaffirmed his administration’s total commitment to the rule of law and warned that proven acts of…
NUJ Games: Lagos Information, Complete Football tango in football final
The battle for football supremacy at the 10th edition of Lagos NUJ Media Games will be between Lagos Information and…
TB Joshua holds memorial service in S/Africa for collapsed building victims
Henry Ojelu The founder of Synagogue Church of All Nations, Prophet T.B. Joshua is holding a memorial service Saturday in…
El-Rufai pulls Kaduna State out of Fitch rating
Governor Nasir El-Rufai has pulled his Kaduna state out of the purview of Fitch Ratings, the Fitch Group itself has…
Buhari to prune federal ministries from 42 to 19
President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria is going to prune the number of ministries from 42 to 19, the Senior Special…
Buhari commiserates with global Islamic community over crane collapse in Mecca
President Muhammadu Buhari has commiserated with his Majesty, King Salman, the people of Saudi Arabia and the worldwide Islamic community…
Team Nigeria soar at the All African Games with 52 medals
Nigerian athletes continued to garner more medals at the ongoing All-African Games in Congo Brazzaville to place fifth on the…
Kaura Community urges el-Rufa’i to probe predecessor
Kaura community in Zaria local government area of Kaduna state has appealed to Governor Nasiru El-Rufa’i to probe the immediate…
Japan centenarian population tops 60,000
Japanese government said on Friday, the number of centenarians in Japan exceeded 60,000 in 2015, hitting a record high for…
Five arrested in Nasarawa over fake recruitment agency
The Nasarawa Police Command says it has arrested five persons for allegedly operating a fake recruitment agency in Lafia, the…
Boko Haram attacks creating major hunger crisis in Lake Chad
New Boko Haram attacks have created a major hunger crisis in Africa’s Lake Chad region with malnutrition reaching “catastrophic” levels…
Venezuela buys cargoes of Nigerian crude
Reuters – Venezuela’s state-run oil company PDVSA has bought three new cargoes of Angolan and Nigerian crudes for delivery at…
Yola Blast: Buhari orders tighter security at IDPs camps
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed authorities to tighten security measures in all camps harboring internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the…