AWC: Falcons ready to take on Mali- official
Abuja – Remi Sulola, media officer of Super Falcons said the team was ready to tackle Mali in their opening Group B match at the African Women Championship (AWC) in Cameroon. Sulola told the News...
View ArticlePolice warn Shi’ites against unlawful procession in Borno
Maiduguri – The Borno Police Command on Friday advised members of the Shi’ite sect to drop their planned unlawful procession in Maiduguri. The state’s Commissioner of police, Mr Damian Chukwu, gave the...
View ArticleMy tenure will make remarkable difference – NDDC Boss
Abuja – The Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Mr Nsima Ekere, says his tenure would make remarkable difference in the lives of the people of the region. Ekere said this...
View ArticlePresident Buhari signs 8 bills into law
Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday signed eight bills passed by the National Assembly into law. Sen. Ita Enang, the Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate),...
View ArticlePope laments “virus of polarization” on naming new cardinals
Rome – Pope Francis warned of a “virus of polarization and hostility” within the Catholic Church and broader society on appointing 17 new cardinals in the Vatican on Saturday. “The virus of...
View Article‘MMM-Nigeria’ community donates relief materials worth N5m to IDPs in Abuja
Abuja – ‘MMM-Nigeria’, a community of mutual financial aid and donations, on Saturday donated relief materials worth N5 million to two Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in the Federal Capital...
View ArticleEngland did not do enough to protect Rooney – Mourinho
London – Manchester United Manager Jose Mourinho felt England did not do enough to protect the team Captain Wayne Rooney. This was after he was pictured socialising in the early hours of the morning,...
View ArticleAnchor Borrowers Programme crashes price of local rice -CBN
Owerri – The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), says the agricultural initiative, `Anchor Borrowers Programme’ launched by the Federal Government has led to significant reduction in the price of local...
View ArticleShiite protests: Ganduje says group should respect authority of security...
Abuja – Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has said that Members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) in Kano, popularly known as Shiites, have to recognise the authority of security...
View ArticleUse GMO for electricity and gas not food
By In my days in secondary school, one of my best subjects was integrated science. That subject had Biology, Physics and Chemistry all fused in one even though we didn’t know it then. I developed an...
View ArticleSecurity agents shot down another suicide bomber in Borno
Maiduguri – The Borno Police Command on Saturday confirmed the killing of another suspected suicide bomber by security agents after he tried to gain entry into the Custom House Internally Displaced...
View ArticlePostpone Ondo governorship poll, Makarfi-led faction of PDP tells INEC
Abuja – The Sen. Ahmed Makarfi-led faction of the PDP, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to postpone the Nov. 26 governorship election in Ondo state. A statement signed...
View ArticleLASU releases 16,000 certificates in 11 months
Lagos – The Vice-Chancellor of the Lagos State University (LASU), Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun, says the institution released 16,000 results and certificates between January and November to graduates....
View ArticleReplicate Lagos template for development, Dangote tells Gov. Obaseki
LAGOS – Alhaji Aliko Dangote, billionaire businessman and Africa’s richest man, at the weekend urged the newly sworn-in Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki to replicate the leadership template...
View ArticleGoing to tribunal is retrogressive, says Edo LP
The Chairman of the Edo State Chapter of the Labour Party (LP), Comrade Kelly Stephen Erukpe Ogbaloi said the LP decided not to challenge the victory of Mr. Godwin Obaseki in the tribunal, because it...
View ArticleSultan of Sokoto commends CBN’s rice initiative
Abuja – The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, says the Central Bank Nigeria (CBN), Anchor Borrowers’ Programme has boosted local rice production. The Sultan spoke at the launch of the dry...
View ArticleSpeed limiters: Full enforcement begins Feb. 1, says Oyeyemi
Lagos – The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on Sunday said that violation of speed limiting devices would start attracting fines from Feb. 1, 2017. Mr Boboye Oyeyemi, the Corps Marshal told the News...
View ArticleOperation to take over Sambisa forest ongoing – CDS
Maiduguri – The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Gabriel Olonisakin, said on Sunday in Maiduguri that an operation tagged “Operation Crackdown’’ to take over the Sambisa forest from the Boko Haram...
View ArticleNAF destroys another set of illegal oil barges in Rivers
Abuja – The Nigerian Air Force (NAF), says it has destroyed another set of illegal oil barges in Rivers. Group Capt. Ayodele Famuyiwa, NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, in a statement...
View ArticlePornography, masturbation affect the brain, impede productivity, clergy warns
Jos – Rev. Paul Ojoh, the Resident Pastor, Shepherd House Assembly International, Jos has said that pornography and masturbation could affect the brain and impede productivity. “Those twin evils could...
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