Tag: Abuja
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…
Director Docked Over Breach of Federal Character
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja The Director General of the National Centre for Technology Management, Dr. Willie Siyanbola, on Monday in…
Sambo To Flag-Off Abuja Auto Fair
The Vice President, Arc. Namadi Sambo will lead other dignitaries from the public and private sectors to declare the 14th…
EFCC Docks 4 Over N1.05 Billion Subsidy Fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on October 17, 2012, arraigned the quartet of Alhaji Saminu Rabiu,Jubril Rowaye, Alminnur…
In Pictures: Dame Jonathan’s Return to Nigeria
Dame Patience Jonathan, wife of Nigeria’s president returned to Nigeria from Germany Wednesday to the warm embrace of a large…
Patience Jonathan back
Moyo Fabiyi Wife of Nigeria’s president, Patience Faka, returned to the country Wednesday afternoon after about two months overseas, declaring:…
Nigeria: Deaf accused stalls trial for subsidy scam
Nnamdi Felix/ Abuja The planned arraignment of two persons and two companies by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,…
Nigeria resumes hajj flights after Saudi row
National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) on Sunday resumed flight operations to Saudi Arabia in five centres for this year’s…
Danjuma Foundation gives N180m to NGOs
The TY Danjuma Foundation, a grant-making organisation, said on Wednesday that it would disburse N180.6 million to 17 non Governmental…
Judgement date in IBB’s $12.4 billion oil windfall
A Federal High Court in Abuja will give a verdict 23 November on the controversial $12.4 billion oil windfall that…
Fashola gets Sports Festival torch from VP Sambo
Nigeria’s Vice President Namadi Sambo, on Tuesday received on behalf of President Goodluck Jonathan the ‘Torch of Unity’, signaling the…
Single mum arrested with wraps of hard drugs
Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), said in Lagos on Saturday that it has arrested four suspects, including a…
Arik Air, Aviation Agencies Summoned To Abuja
Simon Ateba/Aviation Correspondent Nigeria’s Federal Government on Friday summoned Arik Air and aviation agencies to a meeting on Saturday in…
Actor Jailed For Having Sex With Another Man
A 28-year old actor, Bestwood Chukwuemeka, was on Monday sentenced to three-month imprisonment by a Karu Senior Magistrates’ Court, Abuja,…
Tukur, 77, launches biography, The Global Villager
Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, the 77-year old chairman of Nigeria’s ruling party launched his biography, The Global Villager in Abuja today.…
Special church service for Nigeria
An Interdenominational Church Service to celebrate Nigeria’s 52nd independence anniversary is scheduled to take place on Sunday 30 September. In…
Oil minister Diezani’s convoy kills Nigerian journalist
The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) FCT Council, has expressed sadness over the death of Mr. James Momoh of Abuja…
ECOWAS defence chiefs to meet over Mali
Desmond Utomwen/Abuja West Africa’s defence chiefs will hold an extraordinary session in Abidjan from 14 September 2012 to finalise the…
Petrol scarcity: NNPC warns against panic buying
As long queues for fuel resurfaced in the Nigerian capital of Abuja, the management of NNPC said it has 30…
Nigerian lawyers protest at confab
Scores of Nigerian lawyers led by the Chairman of the Ikeja branch of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Mr Onyekachi…
Jonathan: Nigeria Not Ripe For State Police
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja The national conference of the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, commenced on Monday in Abuja, with the…