The Federal Government has approved the restructuring of six Federal Training Centres to tertiary institutions to offer Monotechnic programmes. .…
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The Court of Appeal, Lagos, on Friday disallowed an appeal filed by former governor Rasheed Ladoja of Oyo State, seeking…
The 24th Nigeria University Games Association (NUGA) Games will be formally declared open on Saturday by President Goodluck Jonathan, an…
Respite came the way of the erstwhile Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Dimeji Bankole, Friday, as the Abuja…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has stated that all the legacy projects currently undertaken by his administration are for…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, today February 11, 2014 arraigned one Inuwa Mohammed Ahmed, an accountant with a…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, February 11, 2014 arraigned one Yusuf Kehinde Bakare before Justice Raliatu…
From heroin stashed in human hair to drugs concealed in tins of sardines, Nigeria’s anti-narcotics agency is used to having to deal with increasingly ingenious attempts at smuggling. But where once the west African nation was only a key staging post…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi (Left), addressing the Arewa (Hausa) Community, during the presentation of Ten Motorcycles and an…
Abia State Governor, Chief Theodore Orji, has praised the immediate past Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Onyeabor Ihejirika (rtd), for…
Four persons have been relieved of their appointments in the Federal Executive Council in Nigeria. The affected persons include…
DAKAR, Senegal, February 13, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The United Nations Office for West Africa (UNOWA) in partnership with…
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, February 13, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Minister for Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt will visit the African state…
DUBAI, UAE, February 13, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The growing confidence in Somalia’s economic recovery process has seen institutions…
MOGADISHU, Somalia, February 13, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The National Union of Somali Journalists [NUSOJ] protests the arrest of…
Boko Haram gunmen killed nine Nigerian soldiers after launching an ambush on a military convoy in the troubled northeast, a local official and a hospital source told AFP Thursday. The troops were responding to a distress call late Wednesday in the Madagali…
President Goodluck Jonathan, on Thursday, urged the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to promote national unity and development. . He…
Prof. Atahiru Jega, Chairman Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday said the commission would not just sanction any of…
At least 9 soldiers were feared killed in a deadly ambush by gunmen suspected to be members of the dreaded…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says sales of nomination forms for Ekiti and Osun state governorship elections slated for this…