Year: 2015
Scientists restore lost memory in mice, shedding light on amnesia
Washington (AFP) – Researchers have gained new understanding on the workings of amnesia through research that used light to revive…
Buhari fever catching on really quick with souvenirs, others
Here we are, all the waiting will soon be over but the anxiety in the air is unquantifiable as Muhammadu…
UN optimistic Buhari can crush Boko Haram
GENEVA, May 28 (Reuters) – Nigerian President-elect Muhammadu Buhari’s promised campaign to defeat Boko Haram could drive more militants over…
Wamakko lauds Sokoto Sultanate council
Governor Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto state on Thursday expressed appreciation to the Sultanate council for offering useful advised which led…
A new Nigeria is possible beginning today, says Tinubu
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, former governor of Lagos state and a national leader of the All Progressives Congress has stated that…
Ethiopia, Uganda, Nigeria top countries for US adoptive parents
LONDON, May 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Families in Uganda have been bribed, tricked or coerced into giving up their…
Spain charges Boko Haram Abubakar Shekau with crimes against humanity
MADRID May 28 (Reuters) – Spain’s state prosecutor charged the leader of Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau,…
Buhari deserves complete cooperation, support, says Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday urged Nigerians to cooperate, support and show understanding in all situations to the Muhammadu Buhari’s…
Handover Note: Jonathan reveals what his government did for six year
For those in doubt that President Goodluck Jonathan performed in his six years as president of Nigeria, the outgoing leader…
MTN Impunity: When Enough is Enough
By Funmilola Ajala Imagine a scenario where you allow a fellow from some alien geography perch within your abode; offer…
Jonathan inaugurates PTDF office, urges professionalism
President Goodluck Jonathan said on Thursday that the Federal Government would continue to provide a condusive environment for workers to…
16 Years Of Democracy: Glo Celebrates Nigerians
Indigenous telecommunications solutions provider, Globacom, says 16 years of uninterrupted democratic experiment and the successful transition of power to a…
Meet the 8 female senators in 8th National Assembly
Only eight out of the 109 senators who will serve in the 8th National Assembly are women, NAN reports. Five…
Fashola presents Handover Notes to Ambode
Kazeem Ugbodaga Lagos state governor, Babatunde Fashola presented handover notes to governor-elect, Akinwunmi Ambode ahead of the official inauguration ceremony…
Court dismisses DStv price increase suit
A Federal High Court in Lagos, on Thursday, dismissed the suit filed by some disaffected subscribers challenging the recent 20…
Buhari Receives Handover Notes From Jonathan
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Outgoing Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has continued to receive accolades over gesture of swiftly conceding defeat with a…
Akinwunmi Adesina wins AfDB presidency
Nigeria’s agriculture minister, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina has been elected president of the African Development Bank, according to reports from Abidjan,…
Nigerian Tennis Back On Track —Ndanusa
Damilare Okunola Following the emergence of new winners at the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN Senior Tennis Championship, Engr. Sani…
Emma Ezeazu: An Uncommon Nigerian
By Isidore Emeka Uzoatu The morning I awoke to the announcement of the passing on of Emma Ezeazu of the…
Emma Ezeazu: Tribute To A True Nigerian Across Borders
By Salihu Moh. Lukman Emma Ezeazu, former President, National Association of Nigerian Students (CLO) – 1986 – 1988, former National…
Ending Nigeria’s Perennial Oil Crises
It is less than 24 hours to the historic inauguration that would see President Goodluck Jonathan hand the baton of…
Boko Haram: 290 Soldiers Dismissed
The Nigerian Army has dismissed 290 soldiers for allegedly refusing to fight the Boko Haram insurgents. Human rights lawyer and Senior…
46 Oshodi Hoodlums Arrested Again
Kazeem Ugbodaga Officials of the Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit have arrested another 46 suspected…
EFCC arraigns businessman over stolen crude oil
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Wednesday arraigned one Elder Christopher Andrew Isibor before Justice Ibrahim Buba of the…
There are more Nigerian professionals in Europe than in Nigeria – EU
The European Union (EU) says there are more Nigerian professionals in Europe than there are in Nigeria, warning that the…
All set for Buhari’s inauguration
Nigerians are literally in the mood of ‘change’ with a new administration to be headed by General Muhammadu Buhari (retd)…
Oshiomhole to Okonjo-Iweala: Tell Nigerians how you mismanaged economy
Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state has urged Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s Minister of Finance to tell Nigerians how she…
N19.2bn fraud: Court to rule on Sylva’s case June 8
A Federal High Court in Abuja presided over by Justice A. Y. Mohammed, on Wednesday, May 27, 2015 adjourned the…
NASS removes controversial clauses in constitution amendment
The National Assembly has agreed to remove the controversial clauses in the amendments to the constitution under the Fourth Alteration…
Court bars army from harassing electricity workers
A Nasarawa State High Court sitting in Mararaba, has restrained the Nigerian Army from harassing and preventing the Abuja Electricity…