The Federal Government on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) on the completion of Warri-Ajaokuta-Itakpe-Baro-Abuja railway line. The Minister...
A Kenyan athletics coach has been sent home from the 2016 Olympic Games at Rio in Brazil, after posing as an athlete and giving a urine...
National Assembly members cannot be investigated or charged to court for performing their constitutional responsibility of law-making, including budget, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu...
Professor Isaac Adewole, Minister of Health, on Thursday confirmed an outbreak of two cases of wild poliovirus (WPV) in Borno. A statement signed by Olajide Oshundun,...
Record-breaking Michael Phelps of the U.S. has become the first swimmer to win four successive Olympic gold medals in one event by beating Ryan Lochte in...
The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) is working toward producing its course materials as tablet computers rather than textbooks, its Vice-Chancellor, Professor Abdalla Adamu, has...
The Federal Government said on Thursday that every state in the country is safe, contrary to a recent negative report by the U.S. The Minister of...
Five intending pilgrims for this year’s Hajj had been apprehended by security agents at Ilorin International Airport for attempting to carry Kolanuts and Palm oil to...
A Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan on Wednesday dissolved an 83-day-old marriage between one Pa Alowonle, 70 and his wife, Idia, for deception. Alowonle, a surveyor...
An Ado-Ekiti Magistrates’ has ordered the remand of 42-year-old Josiah in prison custody for allegedly beating his wife to death. The prosecutor, Sgt. Oriyomi Akinwale, told the...
Nigeria’s Dream Team VI still topped Group B of the Rio 2016 Olympics men’s football event in Sao Paulo in spite of a 2-0 loss to...
Embed from Getty Images Jonathan Akinyemi failed to make a mark in slalom canoeing on Wednesday at the Rio Olympics after placing 20th in a field...
Sanusi Mohammed, Executive Secretary, State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Zamafara, on Wednesday said more than 801 persons were displaced by flood in Maru town, Zamfara. In...
No fewer than 15 inmates were believed to have escaped from Nsukka Prison in Enugu state in a jail-break that occurred on Tuesday night. A reliable...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Tuesday directed Bureau De Change (BDCs) operators not to sell foreign exchange above two per cent margin of the...
Indian rights activist Chanu Sharmila, on Tuesday promised in New Delhi to end her hunger strike of 16 years in order to run in 2017 state...
Drivers of the Lagos State’s Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) on Tuesday protested against non payment of their salaries. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that...
Many men in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, have decried that their wives’ obsession with uniform attire for occasions, popularly called “aso-ebi” or “anko” has...
Dutch gymnast Yuri van Gelder has been expelled from the Rio Olympics for “gravely” violating team rules by going out for a night of drinking, the...
No fewer than five persons were seriously injured on Monday in an accident that occurred when a police bullion van driver broke traffic regulation. An eyewitness...
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