Year: 2017
False Marriage: Couple Bags 30 Months Imprisonment
A Magistrates‘ Court on Wednesday sentenced a Zimbabwe couple to 30 months in prison for duping a man of a…
Flooding: 30 Communities In Niger On High Risk
Mr Ugochukwu Chioke, the Chief Operating Officer of Shiroro Hydroelectric Power Station (SHPS), says on Wednesday that about 30 communities…
Pensioners to smile soon
The Acting Director-General of National Pension Commission (PenCom), Mrs Aisha Dahir-Umar, on Wednesday said the Federal Government had begun modalities…
South Africa’s CPI Slowed To 4.6 Per Cent – Economists
South Africa’s headline consumer inflation slowed to 4.6 per cent year-on-year in July from 5.1 per cent in June, data…
Shell Commences Gas Production In Niger Delta
Anglo-Dutch oil major Royal Dutch Shell has started gas production from the second phase of the Gbaran-Ubie project in Nigeria’s…
Man seeks court order to be appointed wife’s Special Guardian
The National Industrial Court, Abuja, has fixed August 31 for hearing of the suit instituted by one Ekeocha Enyeribe, against…
HIV rises, defies drug in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is recording increased cases of drug resistant HIV which have contributed to shortages of Abacavier, a drug administered to…
Female Banker, Accomplice Sent To Prison Over Alleged N8.2M Fraud
A senior banker with Access Bank Plc, Ladipo Branch, Mushin, Lagos, Beatrice Nwana, 33, has been arrested and arraigned before…
Buhari postpones FEC meeting
Mr Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, says the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC)…
ICC hears petition on how Obasanjo, Yar’Adua, Jonathan squandered N11tn electricity fund
The International Criminal Court, ICC in Hague is considering the petition on the allegations of widespread, systematic and large-scale corruption…
Why involvement of CSOs in governance is key – LASG
Lagos State Government has called on Civil Society Organisations, CSOs, to be actively involved and contribute to policy-making process in…
Federal Government commence programme to support the poor in Nasarawa
The Federal Government has commenced processes toward building a register of poor and vulnerable persons in Nasarawa State, to serve…
Street Trading: Gov. vows to sanction defaulters
Gov. Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State has warned street traders who display and sell goods by the roadsides and under…
Mikel, 22 others in squad for Cameroon battle
Super Eagles’ Technical Adviser Gernot Rohr has named team captain Mikel Obi, forward Odion Ighalo and Israel–based marksman Anthony Nwakaeme…
Ezekwesili, Aig-Imoukhuede calls for open economy
Dr Oby Ezekwesili, a senior economic adviser for Open Society Foundation and Mr Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, the President of the Nigerian…
Nasarawa pilgrims touch down in Saudi Arabia
Alhaji Ibrahim Balarabe-Abdullahi, Nasarawa State Amirul Hajj, said on Tuesday that the 1,120 pilgrims from the state had arrived in Saudi Arabia…
Mudslide: Nigeria donates relief materials, cash to victims
Nigeria has donated 315 tonnes of assorted relief materials and one million dollars cash to Sierra Leone to help alleviate…
Minister approves promotion of management staff
The Minister of State for Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika, has approved the appointment, promotion and redeployment of top management staff…
Catholic bishops urges FG to device new strategies for anti-graft fight
Catholic Bishops have urged the Federal Government to device new strategies for fighting corruption, saying the current approach is not…
Ortom visits wife of assassinated aide, vows to fish out killers
Gov Samuel Ortom has visited the wife of his assassinated aide, Dr Tervershima Adyorough, at Benue State Teaching Hospital, where…
State disburses vehicle/housing loans to 751 teachers
The Ekiti State Government on Tuesday announced the release of N190 million as vehicle and housing loans to 751 teaching…
Photos: Buhari presides over security meeting at home
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday presided over his first security meeting with the service chiefs after over 100 days.
Rats sack Buhari from office, now works from home
President Muhammadu Buhari will work from home after rodents damaged his official office during a more than 100-day overseas medical…
Accident claims pregnant woman, 8 others in Benin
No fewer than nine persons, including a pregnant woman and another woman with two of her children, were crushed to…
Insurgency: Catholic Bishops demand compensation from FG for damages
The Catholic Bishops of Kaduna Ecclesiastical Province have urged the Federal Government to compensate Churches and other victims of attacks…
Dieziani loses another set of properties worth N2.6billion to Federal Govt
There is no end yet to the season of forfeiture as a Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos, south west…
NFF Reforms: More football officials on federation radar
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has identified more football officials who must drop one of two or more hats in…
Kogi SUBEB woos parents to public primary schools
Mrs. Deborah Alaba, Chairman, Kogi State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), has urged parents to enroll their children into public…
More solid mineral deposit discovered in Cross River
The Cross River Government has discovered more solid mineral deposits across the three Senatorial Districts in the state after it…
FG to use space technology to boost socio-economic development
The Federal Government on Tuesday in Abuja said it would deepen efforts at utilising space technology to make giant stride…