Year: 2018
Gov. Okowa gives contractor 1 month deadline to complete Stephen Keshi Stadium
Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta has given the contractor handling the reconstruction of the Stephen Keshi Stadium Asaba till the…
Soot: Gov. Wike to set up centre for recycling of tyres, waste material
Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers says that the state is planning to establish a centre to recycle used tyres and…
Farming season: Jigawa Govt. spends N28m on improved seeds
The Jigawa Government says it has spent the sum of N28million on the procurement of improved seeds for sale at…
FCMB ordered to pay N2.5 billion decade old debt
The Investments and Securities Tribunal, Abuja, on Wednesday ordered First City Monument Bank Plc (FCMB) to pay the sum of…
Nigerian Govt urged to exclude tobacco companies from Export Expansion Grant
A Technical Working Group (TWG) on Tobacco Taxation has urged the Federal Government to exclude tobacco companies from benefiting from…
Gaza Protest: Israeli minister slams EU, says “go to a thousand thousand hells”
Israel’s Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz on Wednesday slammed the European Union over the bloc’s criticism of police treatment of Israeli-Arab…
5 herbalists remanded for allegedly fleecing man of N4.7m
An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday remanded five herbalists for allegedly fleecing a man of N4.7 million under the pretext…
Military/Gbagyi Clash: Niger Govt. donates relief materials worth N26m to victims
The Niger Government has donated cash and relief materials worth N26 million to victims of the Military/Gbagyi clash that occurred…
Tramadol, Codeine: Reps propose N2m fine, 2 years imprisonment for offenders
The House of Representatives on Tuesday, proposed a N2 million fine and a two-year jail term for corporate offenders of…
Nigerian Govt invests $10 billion in infrastructure in 3 years – Osinbajo
The Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, says the Federal Government has invested close to 10 billion dollars in infrastructure development in…
Nasarawa shuts down 10 private schools
The Nasarawa State Government has closed down 10 private schools for operating illegally in Lafia, the state capital.
Ghana launches project to get hawkers, beggars off streets
The Ghanaian government has launched an initiative dubbed “Operation Get off the Streets for a Better Life” aimed at ridding…
Russia 2018: NFF has paid $2.8m to Super Eagles – Pinnick
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has commenced the payment of 30 per cent allowance to its players and coaches participating…
Ramadan: Commissioner harps on healthy ways to break fast
The Gombe State Commissioner for Health, Dr Kennedy Ishaya, has advised Muslims on best ways to utilise the breaking of…
NAPTIP partners NPC to tackle human trafficking
The National Population Commission (NPC), on Tuesday pledged to provide necessary assistance to the National Agency for the Prohibition of…
CAN calls on Nigerian Govt to relocate embassy to Jerusalem
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has called on the Federal Government and other countries to relocate their embassies from…
Lung transplant: Patients face higher rate of organ failure, death – Scientists
Scientists say among organ transplant patients, those receiving new lungs face a higher rate of organ failure and death compared…
Jacob Zuma’s son, Edward fined for hate speech
Former South African President Jacob Zuma’s son Edward on Tuesday agreed to pay 5,000 U.S. dollars and apologised for his…
Drought hits Northeast China province
Northeast China’s Jilin Province is suffering from a drought which has affected 1.36 million hectares of crops, local authorities said…
Oil prices head towards $100 on mounting supply concerns
Brent crude oil rose above 80 dollars a barrel on Tuesday, supported by concern that falling Venezuelan crude output and…
Ramadan: Sokoto approves N300m to support orphans, widows
Sokoto State Government is spending N300 million to provide free food and clothing materials to orphans, widows and other less…
Man jailed 24 months for unlawful possession of Indian hemp
A Federal High Court sitting in Kano, has sentenced a 37-year-old man, Mashood Mohammed, to 24 months imprisonment for unlawful…
Erosion Channel: Federal Govt.’s intervention excites Ogbomoso residents
The residents of Odo Alaamo, Ogbomosho in Oyo state, on Wednesday expressed delight at the intervention of the Federal Government…
Serena Williams ready to deny Paris convention
Convention has it that to succeed on the grueling clay courts of Roland Garros in Paris requires playing a stack…
Fans back Super Eagles Team B as main team feeder
Football fans in Ebonyi have lent support to the calls for Super Eagles Team B to be used as the…
State congress: Ebonyi APC Appeal Panel begins sitting
The All Progressives Congress (APC), State Congress Appeal Panel for Ebonyi, set up by the National Working Committee (NWC) of…
Arsenal appoint Emery as new manager
Arsenal have appointed former Paris St Germain coach Unai Emery as the new manager of the club, with the Spaniard…
Overall cancer death rates drop in America
The latest annual report on cancer in the United States released on Tuesday in the journal Cancer showed that the…
$16bn power projects: EFCC, NASS records exonerate me of wrong doing – Obasanjo
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo said on Tuesday that the National Assembly had absolved him of any wrong doing in the…
Boko Haram: NHRC seeks improved conditions in detention centres for suspects
The National Human Right Commision (NHRC), on Wednesday, urged the Nigerian Army to improve on the conditions in the detention…