Year: 2015
Nigeria internet users hit 97m, says NCC
The number of internet users on Nigeria’s telecoms networks has hit 97.21 million, up from the 95.37 million recorded in…
APC wins Borno Central Senatorial bye-election
The Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday declared Alhaji Babakaka Garbai, All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate winner of the bye-election…
Sokoto State rewards cleanest communities with N2.25m
Sokoto State Government on Sunday gave out N 2.25 million as reward to the three cleanest communities in Sokoto metropolis…
IDPs laud UNFPA humanitarian, psycho-social services
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Maiduguri on have commended the UNFPA for providing humanitarian and psycho-social support services in Borno.…
Rebuild North East, Osinbajo charges CSOs
The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has charged Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) to contribute to the rebuilding, reconstruction, reconciliation and…
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NNPC records N5.53bn loss in sale of petroleum products in Sept.
The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), says it recorded N38.67billion from the sale of downstream petroleum products in September down…
Russia holds day of mourning after 224 die in plane crash
AFP – International investigators on Sunday began probing why a Russian airliner carrying 224 people crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula,…
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Delay in passage of PIB hurting Nigeria’s economy – Kachikwu
Nigeria looks set to unbundle a long-awaited oil law to speed up its passage through parliament, potentially unlocking billions of…
11 migrants, including 6 children, drown off Greece
Eleven migrants, including six children — four of them babies — drowned on Sunday in a new tragedy off the…
Vote out Wada, liberate yourselves from poverty, Oyegun tells Kogi electorate
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Oyegun, on Saturday urged the people of Kogi to…
NLC, TUC directs workers in Kogi to begin strike
Public service workers in Kogi State have been directed to stay off work on Nov. 2 to protest against non-release…
Bishop urges FG to fix bad roads
The Anglican Bishop of Niger, Chiedozie Nwokolo, has urged the Federal Government to repair bad roads across the country to…
Group to Ambode: Review judicial staff composition
Eromosele Ebhomele @selemele2 A Lagos, Nigeria-based right group, the Network on Police Reform in Nigeria, NOPRIN, on Saturday pleaded with…
PDP needs rebranding -APC insists
The All Progressives Congress (APC) said the resort to crude, personal attacks by PDP spokesman Olisa Metuh in his latest…
Ambode charges police to change crime fighting tactics
Kazeem Ugbodaga Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode has charged the State Police Command to step up their surveillance in the…
EFCC: Seven jailed for fuel theft
Seven men have been jailed for 10 years in Nigeria after being arrested with nearly 1,500 tonnes of contraband petrol,…
Lagos shuts Marina mosque over pollution
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government has shut down Marina’s Workers Mosque on Lagos Island, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria over poor…
I was bus conductor— Alex Iziyon
Renowned lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Alex Iziyon has spoken about his humble beginnings and the odds he…
FG urged to declare state of emergency on cancer
Prof. Francis Durosinmi-Etti, the President, Cancer Education and Advocacy Foundation of Nigeria (CEAFON), has called on the Federal Government to…
Telecoms operators lose 357,993 customers
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on Saturday said that active lines in the nation’s telecommunications industry reduced to 150,660,631 in…
Jose’s Headache: Coutinho’s brace compounds Chelsea’s woes
Losing at the Stamford Bridge was unthinkable in Jose Mourinho’s first term in charge of Chelsea but what used to…
Nigeria issues poster of 100 wanted Boko Haram militants
Nigeria’s army is posting a photographic collage of 100 wanted Boko Haram militants that features the shadowy leader whom they…
Kogi Guber: Immigration tells immigrants to steer clear
The Nigeria Immigration Service in Kogi on Saturday cautioned immigrants against taking part in the Nov. 21 governorship election. The…
U-17 WC: Nigeria face Brazil in Sunday’s quarter final
Taiwo Adelu The Golden Eaglets of Nigeria will have their hands full when they confront Brazil in Sunday’s quarter final…
Emir of Borgu, a great patriot, unifier – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has received with great sadness and a deep feeling of immense personal and national loss, news of…
Herdsmen warned against negative conduct
The Special Adviser to Imo Governor on Livestock and Hausa Community Affairs, Mr Hassan Adamu, has advised herdsmen in Imo…
Akwa Ibom to set up 10 cassava processing plants
Akwa Ibom Government says it is planning to establish 10 modern cassava processing plants in the state. Gov. Udom Emmanuel…
Kogi election; Immigration warns foreigners
The Nigeria Immigration Service in Kogi on Saturday cautioned immigrants against taking part in the Nov. 21 governorship election. The…
U-17 World Cup: Nigeria ready for Brazil in quarter final clash
Taiwo Adelu The Golden Eaglets of Nigeria will have their hands full when they confront Brazil in Sunday’s quarter final…