Year: 2015
Treasury Single Account: No going back on 15 Sept date, says AGF
The Office of Accountant- General of the Federation has reassured all Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) as well as the…
Extra Judicial Killing: Edo to set up Office of Public Defender
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state has announced his government has concluded plans to establish an Office of…
Rivers governorship election marred by violence – INEC
Mr Charles Okoye, a witness for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the ongoing trial for the April 11 Rivers…
Tribunal nullifies PDP lawmaker’s election, orders fresh poll
The State House of Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Makurdi, Benue State on Friday nullified the election of member…
EFCC impostor caught in the act
A staff of the National Biotechnology Development Agency, NABDA, who attempted to dupe a National Agency for Food and Drug…
Chieftaincy: Edo govt warns Ogiamien family, threatens criminal charges
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Barely three days after the installation of Prince Rich-Arisco Osemwengie as the Ogiamen of Benin Kingdom, there are…
Vinci beats Serena, ends hope of calendar Grand Slam
Italy’s Roberta Vinci caused a huge shock as she beat Serena Williams at the US Open to end the American’s…
62 dead, 80 injured as crane collapses in Mecca’s Grand Mosque
Riyadh (AFP) – At least 62 people were killed and 30 injured when a crane crashed into the Grand Mosque…
Ex-PDP governor, Nnamani, accuses party of rigging election
Former Governor of Enugu State, Chimaroke Nnamani, on Friday accused the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) of rigging the Enugu East…
Why we have not allowed Toviho to graduate – LASU VC
Eromosele Ebhomele The Vice Chancellor of the Lagos State University, Professor John Obafunwa has defended the institution’s refusal to graduate…
Prof. Zana Akpagu is new Vice Chancellor of UNICAL
The Governing Council of the University of Calabar, on Friday announced Prof. Zana Itiunbe Akpagu, as the new and 10th…
Armed robbery: 2 corps members regain freedom
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) on Friday said it had secured the release of two out of three corps…
One dead, scores injured in protest against Ouattara’s re-election bid
At least one person was killed and others were injured during protests in Cote d’ivoire over the validation of incumbent…
Stowaway in Medview aircraft charged with attempted suicide
A 24-year-old man, Festus Chikeluba, alleged to have hidden inside an aircraft tyre compartment, on Friday appeared before an Ikeja…
1 million Africans to catch malaria from dam mosquitoes in 2015 – Study
A study published in Malaria Journal, has predicted that one million Africans would catch malaria in 2015, because they live…
Rome submits bid for 2024 Olympics
Rome on Friday became the second city to formally submit its bid to host the 2024 Games to the International…
Nigerian Air Force rotates troops on operation Lafiya Dole
The Nigerian Air Force has rotated members of its ground forces fighting alongside troops of the Nigerian Army who have…
Boosting Nigerian higher education via ICT
Chijioke Okoronkwo The National Universities Commission (NUC) and the American University of Nigeria (AUN) recently organised a stakeholders’ conference in…
7 dead, 13 injured in Yola IDPs camp explosion – Adamawa Govt
The Adamawa Government confirmed that seven people died and 13 were injured in an explosion that occurred at the Malkohi…
Nigerian interbank lending rate down as liquidity rises
Nigeria’s interbank lending rates fell 75 basis points to an average of 6.50 per cent on Friday from 8.25 per…
UPDATE: 3 dead as bomb blast rips through IDP camp in Yola
Reuters – A bomb went off in an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp on the outskirts of the Adamawa state…
Eid-el-Kabir: Ram dealers record low sales
Less than two weeks to the Eid-el-Kabir celebration, ram dealers in Hadejia, Jigawa are recording low patronage, a check by…
SEC investigates Stanbic IBTC over fees disclosure
Nigeria’s financial regulator is investigating Stanbic IBTC over alleged wrongful disclosure of fees owed to its parent, South Africa’s Standard…
Record number of migrants cross Mediterranean, says IOM
(Reuters) – More than 430,000 refugees and migrants have crossed the Mediterranean to Europe so far in 2015, a record…
Northern governors meet over insurgency, poverty, illiteracy
Femi Adi/Kaduna The governors of the 19 northern states met in Kaduna to discuss how to end problems of insecurity…
Venezuela opposition leader Lopez jailed for nearly 14 years
CARACAS: Activists planned new protests in Venezuela on Friday (Sep 11) after jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez was sentenced to…
Bomb blast hits IDPs camp in Yola
A bomb blast hit a Nigerian internally displaced persons (IDP) camp on Friday morning on the outskirts of Adamawa state…
UNICAL resident doctors resume duty after 3 months strike
The Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH), on Friday returned to work after a three-month…
Pastor arrested over missing 4-yr-old girl
Cyriacus Izuekwe Pastor Michael Balogun of the Cherubim and Seraphim Church, Ejigbo, where a 4-year-old girl was stolen, has been…
Okagbare laments one event outing at All Africa Games
Taiwo Adelu Africa’s fastest woman, Nigerian Blessing Okagbare, has described her decision to feature in only one event at the…