Former president Ibrahim Babangida said yesterday that the PDP was being dishonest when it said President Jonathan could run for election next year on his initial joint ticket with...
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The South-West zone of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday endorsed the aspiration of President Goodluck Jonathan for the 2011 presidential polls. This position forms part of the communiqué...
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The Independent National Electoral Commission( INEC) says it has a budgetary shortfall of about N8billion from the 2010 supplementary budget. This it says has made it difficult for the...
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Gunmen shot and injured a personal assistant and a police guard attached to Governor Isa Yuguda in Bauchi at the weekend, the latest in a series of attacks on...
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President Goodluck Jonathan has commended officers and men of the Federal Fire Service for their timely action to contain and put out the fire which broke out yesterday at...
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Almost 400 people have died since the recent wave of the cholera epidemic hit the nation two months ago. Latest figures show over 6,000 people have contracted the disease...
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The Chairman, Senate House Committee on Health, Senator Iyabo Obasanjo Bello, has attributed the partial spread of HIV/AIDS to female genital mutilation(FGM) especially when its done in group of...
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President Goodluck Jonathan last week unveiled a comprehensive electricity reform plan, encompassing short- and long-term measures to resuscitate the crippled sector.
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The long- awaited wind of change in Nigeria football seems to have finally blown with the emergence of Aminu Maigari (Bauchi State) and Chief Mike Umeh (Anambra) as the...
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Defeated candidate for the vice-presidency of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Fanny Amun, has expressed reservations over the association’s polls, hinting that a lot of water passed under bridge...
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Barely one year after the 2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup, some aggrieved members of the “Sub-Committee on Ceremonies” for the Local Organising Committee (LOC) have despatched a letter to...
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The appointment of Samson Siasia as the new Nigeria coach will not be made public again this week so as not to distract Austin Eguavoen ahead of Saturday’s Nations...
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Time, if you will allow this column to drag an over worn cliché across its cluttered path, changes everything( This is not original).
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President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has commended officers and men of the Federal Fire Service for their timely action to contain and put out the fire which broke out on...
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Chief Winston Odumu caused a stir in the polity when he dragged members of the National Assembly to court over their alleged jumbo pay. RUTH CHOJI-TAFIDA recently engaged him...
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This is going to be one of the most tensest and toughest weekends in the Big Brother house, as two heavyweights go up against each other for eviction. Poor...
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After winning one and losing one during their four-day acclimatisation camp in Benoni – South Africa, the stage is set for Sam Walusimbi’s U-19 troops to defend their African...
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Chairman of Abaji Area Council, Alhaji Yahaya Musa Muhammad Saturday said the council’s management has done a lot in terms of development. He said the council is presently embarking...
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The Zamfara State government yesterday sealed an agreement with two other business partners to construct a refinery in Gusau, the state capital, at the cost of 1.5 billion euros.
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Athletics will be the major attraction at the first Under-23 ECOWAS Games slated for Abuja in September, it has been revealed.So far, 11 of the 12 countries expected at...
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A gang of four armed men last Friday night kidnapped the son of first Republic Prime Minister, Dr Jhailil Tafawa Balewa in Abuja. Dr. Jhailil is also the leader...
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A Nigerian man who swallowed bags of cocaine in an attempt to smuggle the drugs to Europe has died after one of the bags ruptured in his stomach, the...
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PRESIDENT Goodluck Ebele Jonathan said, yesterday, he planned to eliminate constant power outage in the country by 2012 through the introduction of ‘revolutionary’ policies to tackle the plethora of...
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Nigeria’s President Goodluck Johnathan has laid out plans to privatise most of the national electricity sector, in a bid to end the country’s daily power cuts. In a speech...
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