Year: 2017
Teachers Council To Conduct First Professional Exams
The Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) says it will conduct the first professional examination for teachers before the end…
EU Court Allows Religious Symbol Ban
European Union’s top court ruled on Tuesday that employers may bar staff from wearing visible religious symbols. The ruling is…
Ex Taiwan President Indicted In High-Level Investigation
Former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou was indicted on Tuesday for alleged abetment in the disclosure of information in connection with…
UN calls for release of detainees in Syria’s prisons
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Al-Hussein on Tuesday called for the release of tens of thousands of detainees…
UNICEF to keep 8,000 girls in school in Katsina
The Katsina State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) says UNICEF’s donation of N160 million to the board would put 8,…
Research Uncovers Breakthrough With Breast Cancer Drug
New research finds more patients suffering from breast cancer could be treated with a drug previously thought to only help…
Group calls for transparency in oil, gas industry
Publish What You Pay (PWYP), an NGO, has called on the government to show transparency in the management of revenues…
Bereaved Families Jostle Workers At Ethiopian Landslide Site
Bereaved families tussled with rescue workers on Tuesday at the site of an Ethiopian rubbish dump where a landslide killed…
Pirates hijack fuel freighter off Somali coast
Somali pirates are suspected of hijacking a Sri Lankan-flagged fuel freighter off the coast of the African country, a piracy…
Bandits Surrender Arms In Zamfara
Some repentant cattle rustlers and armed bandits in Maru, Birnin Magaji and Gusau Local Government Areas, Zamfara, have surrendered their…
Alert: Lagos – Ibadan Expressway Blocked
If you're traveling this morning through Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Please use alternate roads because there is a serious gridlock on the…
Australian Astronomers Discover Star
Astronomers at Curtin University in Western Australia and the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research have discovered a star with…
Child trafficking: Exiled Niger politician bags 1 year imprisonment
Niger’s appeals court has sentenced an exiled former presidential candidate to one year in prison for child trafficking, the final…
Saudi varsity warns female students against short haircuts
A Saudi university on Tuesday sent a warning to its female students of immediate dismissal for imitating men in haircuts…
Fulani herdsmen, Bende community clash in Abia
The people of Umuobasikwu, Ozuitem community in Bende local government area of Abia State on Sunday had a face-off with…
Oyo road projects to be completed in 18 months
Gov. Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State says road expansion projects across the state awarded by his administration would be completed…
Dana Air to review AIB’s full reports on ill-fated crash
Dana Air has disclosed that the airline would review all the safety recommendations prescribed in the full report of the…
Abuja Airport Closure: FG conveys passengers by road
The Ministry of Transport conveyed 1,432 airline passengers by road from Kaduna Airport to Abuja, in the first four days…
Edo IDP graduate to get state employment
Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo has said that a female law graduate at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp, Uhogua,…
Nigeria to pass gender, equal opportunity law
The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Senator Aisha Alhassan said that the country is committed to ensuring gender…
Merkel’s trip to Washington postponed to Friday
German Chancellor, Angela Merkel’s first face-to-face meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, will have to wait a few days because…
U.S envoy visits Edo, pledges support
The U.S Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Stuart Symington, on Monday pledged his country’s assistance to help Nigeria to overcome its…
Kidnapping: Girls’ school principal appeals for tall fence
Hajia Habiba Abdulrahman, Principal, Government Girls Secondary School, Sarkin-Noma in Lokoja, has urged the government to construct a tall fence…
Blind candidates to take UTME – JAMB Registrar
The Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, says prospective blind candidates for UTME will write this…
Ogbemudia’s body arrives Benin today
The Planning committee set up by the Edo Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, for the burial of late Dr Samuel Ogbemudia,…
Snowstorms: New York declares state of emergency
The New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo, has declared a state of emergency on Tuesday over the impending snowstorms in the…
Women decry ‘slow progress’ in gender equality
The UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) has decried what it termed a “slow…
Trump cancels meeting with German Chancellor
The expected meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday has been cancelled due to…
Hurray! Farmers To Get Fertiliser At N6,000 Per Bag
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, says a bag of fertiliser will cost less than N6,…
Benue Governor Issues 2-Day Ultimatum To Herdsmen To Quit Local Govt
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue has given Fulani herdsmen in Tombo-Mbalagh, Buruku Local Government Area of the state a two-day…