Tag: Abuja
Court Extends Forfeiture Order on Sylva’s assets
Justice A.R. Muhammed of the Nigerian Federal High Court, in Abuja today granted the application by the Economic and Financial…
Abuja Residents Troop To Fetch “Kerosene” From Well
There was commotion in Kuje, one of the six Area Councils in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, over the discovery of petroleum…
Jonathan urges church mould Nigerian character
President Gooodluck Jonathan in Abuja on Sunday advised the Church to champion the course of nation building through character moulding…
Fire razes Abuja flats
A block of four flats located along Demonstration Road in Gwagwalada, a satellite town in the Niegria’s Federal Capital Territory…
Communal clashes leave 2 dead in Abuja
Ayorinde Oluokun Two persons have died in the Nigerian capital of Abuja as the Gwari people and nomadic Fulani in…
Nigeria Police On Red Alert Over Terror Rumours
Nigeria’s police authorities have placed their men on red alert in Nigeria’s capital of Abuja, following speculations about another terrorist…
Patience Jonathan lights Nigeria’s Christmas Tree
The Wife of Nigeria’s President, Dame Patience Jonathan, has urged for peace, unity and love during the Christmas season. Mrs.…
Jonathan, PDP govs, others review 2012
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday met with the leadership of the National Assembly and PDP governors to review the…
More students pass WASCE in Nigeria’s capital
Students in the FCT in 2012 scored 38.39 per cent credit pass in five WASCE subjects, including English and Mathematics,…
Reps Reject Police Trust Fund Bill
The House of Representatives in Abuja on Tuesday rejected a bill seeking the establishment of the Nigeria Police Reform Trust…
Senate Condemns Air Mishaps, Orders Probe
The Senate has condemned what it described as the resurgence of air mishaps in the country, and mandated its committees…
Terrorism: More legal setbacks for Nigerian Senator
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja For the second time this week, embattled Senator Aliyu Mohammed Ndume who is standing trial on…
Jonathan, National Assembly leaders in nocturnal meeting
President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday night met with the leadership of the National Assembly behind closed doors at the Aso…
Senator Ndume spoke with Boko Haram man 73 times
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja A Nigerian High Court siting in Abuja was on Wednesday told that Senator Aliyu Mohammed Ndume,…
Jonathan urges Nigerians not lose faith in Nigeria
President Goodluck Jonathan Sunday night urged Nigerians not to lose faith in the country as government was doing its best…
Court Issues Arrest Warrant Against Land Scammer
Justice A. B Mohammed of the High Court of Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory, sitting in Apo, Abuja, on Thursday, December…
Police dismiss bomb rumour
The Nigeria Police Force on Tuesday dismissed rumour of a bomb explosion at a shopping complex in Lokogoma, a settlement…
2 disabled women fight over man
Armed with a knife and cutlass, a disabled woman living in Kamarjiji Vilage in Nigeria’s Federal Capital of Abuja stormed…
Nigeria recovers stolen oil subsidy money
The Federal Government said today it has recovered N29 billion out of the N232 billion oil subsidy scam. The Minister…
$500m spent by Nigerian students in EU, US
The Committee of Vice Chancellors of Nigerian Universities (CVC), said on Saturday that Nigerians spend an average of $500 million…
Okolo wins Miss University Nigeria pageant
Miss Winfrey Okolo, a student of the University of Benin, has won the 2012 Miss University Nigeria (MUN) beauty pageant,…
Another banquet hall to be built for Jonathan
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja bureau chief At a time many Nigerians are complaining about government’s profligacy, the Federal Government announced on Wednesday…
Gunmen freed 30 detainees, says Nigeria Police
The Nigeria Police has confirmed that 30 suspects in its detention were freed by gunmen who attacked the premises of…
Nigeria: Gunmen attack police detention centre
The detention centre run by Nigerian Police Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Garki Abuja, came under the fusillade of bullets this…
Nigeria Law School churns out new baby lawyers
Like a factory producing products, Nigeria Law School today churned out a new set of lawyers to swell Nigeria’s legal…
Ex-governor Sylva moves to stop trial
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Former Bayelsa state governor, Chief Timipre Sylva on Tuesday mounted a legal campaign to stall his…
EFCC Arrests 12 Suspected Land Racketeers
A Special Task Force which comprise of Special Control Unit against Money Laundering, SCUML and Counter-Terrorism/General Investigation, CTGI, Units of…
Court Throws Out Bakassi Indigenes’ Suit
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Wednesday threw out the suit filed by indigenes…
EFCC Docks Customs boss Impersonator
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, October 23, 2012, arraigned Bello Godwin Onimisi, before Justice Adebukola Banjoko…
Bomb Scare On Arik Flight
There has been a bomb scare on an Arik Air flight from Maiduguri to Abuja but the Ministry of Aviation…