Gold rose above $1,500 an ounce on, poised to snap a three-session losing streak as hopes that Greece would pass unpopular austerity measures, which boosted the euro and fueled investor risk appetite on commodities across the board.
Endorsements from two leading proxy advisory firms could turn out to be the London Stock Exchange’s secret weapon as it bids for the widely held TMX Group, operator of the Toronto Stock Exchange.
As part of its commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility in the area of educational development in the country, Etisalat Nigeria , recently organised its second Career Counselling Session for students in three secondary schools in Lagos . The schools; Akande Dahunsi Memorial High School, Kuramo Senior College and Victoria Island Senior Secondary School sent in large numbers of students in their SSS1 and SSS2 classes to benefit from the all day career counselling session.
THE House of Representatives, Wednesday , resolved to intervene in the lingering industrial crisis in the power sector as a move to forestall the looming strike planned by the National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE.
Nigerian national football team, the Super Eagles dropped two places to the 41st position in the latest FIFA ranking.
In Africa, the Eagles fell to fifth place, behind Cote’d’Ivoire, Ghana, Egypt and Burkina Faso who are ranked 14th, 33rd, 34th and 37th in the world.
AN unidentified woman was yesterday killed while several others sustained various degress of injuries after a truck ran into them at Dugbe-Alawo area of Ibadan.
Rivers Peoples Con-gress, RPC, has called on the opposition candidates in the April governorship election in Akwa Ibom State to drop their cases against Governor Godswill Akpabio in the election tribunal and join hands to move the state forward.
Tragedy struck yesterday as thunderstorms swept through Gombe, Yobe and Bauchi states killing 19 persons. Among the dead were eight men, six women and five children
GOVERNOR Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State yesterday denied media reports that he nominated a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to President Goodluck Jonathan for consideration as minister even as he pleaded that he be left out of issues pertaining to the PDP.
Fifa’s security chief is trying to locate Nigerien referee Ibrahim Chaibou, who officiated a friendly international that is being investigated for match-fixing claims.
A Federal High Court sitting in Benin, Edo State, has awarded the sum of N10million to one Lucky Etomokwu, a physically challenged, as general damages for his unlawful arrest and detention by the Edo State Command of the State Security Services, SSS.
A socio-political group, Ndokwa Youths National Movement, NYNM, has condemned the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Oil Pipeline Surveillance plans, which is coordinated by the Delta State Government, saying that out of the 6,000 slots of surveillance jobs given out by the Federal Government to the state government as youth empowerment programme for pipelines host communities, none was given to the Ndokwa nation.
New Chelsea coach, Andre Villas-Boas yesterday unveiled his back room staff. And there was no room for former Nigerian international Michael Emenalo.
TRAGEDY struck, yesterday, in Nyanya, a suburb of Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, FCT, following the collapse of a two-storey building under construction at the back of a new generation bank.
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