ABUJA—Wife of the Vice-President, Dame Patience Goodluck Jonathan is among prominent Nigerians who have been selected to receive an award of patrons of the Campus Community Support Foundation during the public presentation and launch of the group’s campus focused magazine, Razzmatazz.
Other dignitaries to become patrons of the foundation are Owelle Rochas, Senator John Shagaya [...]
DETECTIVES attached to the Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigations Department (SCID) Panti Yaba, have commenced investigations into the circumstances surrounding the death of two adults who committed suicide by hanging at two different locations in Lagos.
AWKA—Chief Press Secretary to Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State, Mr. Mike Udah, has charged members of the National Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ) to revitalize it to make its impact felt as a professional body.
The Chancellor, Joseph Ayo Babalola University (JABU), Ikeji-Arakeji, Osun State, Oba Oladele Olashore has blamed the Federal Government for the near collapse in the public educational institutions in the country with a call for a quick intervention.
The embattled students of the University of Education, Ikere Ekiti (TUNADEK) who have been sent home by the authorities of the university over 9 months ago weekend, made a surprise appearance at the Ifaki Ekiti campus of the institution, vowing not to leave the campus until the authorities of the state government make a definite pronouncement over their resumption.
The Action Congress (AC) has stressed the need for the Federal Government to hand over all federal highways to the respective states where they are situated for proper maintenance.
Determined to settle problems emanating from inadequate medical facilities for the ongoing FIFA Under 17 World Cup, sports minister Sani Ndanusa, we gathered intervened and appealed to Delta State to assist the LOC with Ambulance Vehicles.
Police detectives attached to Itire division in Lagos State are on the trail of a gang of armed robbers who snatched a Mercedes Benz jeep from a male owner on Olagbaiye Street, Ilasamaja, weekend.
Prominent Nigerians including Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State will tomorrow lay the foundation of the proposed Augustine University owned by the Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos.
The Local Organising Committee for the ongoing Fifa Under 17 World Cup is expected to start bubbling again from this week.
We gathered, at the weekend, that he Federal Government late last week approved additional N3 billion for them to take care of the financial crunch that has hit them and which Vanguard had made public.
SENIOR civil servants in the country have implored President Umaru Yar’Adua to allow reasons prevail and not to commit socio-economic and political suicide by going ahead with unpopular and anti-people’s policy of full deregulation of the downstream sector of the economy.
Dutchman Jo Bonfrere has admitted to BBC Sport that he is keen to coach Nigeria for a third time.
His intervention will increase pressure on the current incumbent, Shaibu Amodu.
THE Nigerian Premier League (NPL) has been put on hold after five weeks of action as a result of the FIFA Under-17 World Cup, which the country will host beginning Saturday.
The first place I saw (yes, we have never met) Orji Uzor Kalu was at Enyimba Stadium in one of Enyimba Int’l FC matches. Then he was not the governor of Abia State. The Supporters’ Club then drummed their lives out each match Orji was a spectator because he gave them lavish monetary support.
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