The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke has announced that Nigeria would be the toast of the jewellery world this month in Hollywood, California as mega-movie stars, world  jewellery buying  and selling top guns throng   the  launch its Gemstones . The Minister said that this was made possible after several meeting with […]

A DEFEANING explosion suspected to be from a detonated dynamite rocked Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, in the early hours of yesterday causing panic among residents of Kpansia, Yenizue-Gene and Biogbolo metropolis.

OIL producing communities in Edo State have condemned what they described as deliberate exclusion of their people from the post-amnesty committee set up by the federal government.

The policeman, Mr. Raymond Egbongbonwuyi, who fired tear gas in a ward at the Oni Memorial Children’s Hospital, Ibadan last week said yesterday that he did not mean to harm any of the children on the fateful day.

Ahead African Cup of Nations in Angola, the Nigeria Football Federation is considering a friendly with the 2010 World Cup hosts South Africa.

A suspected member of a robbery gang that specialised in car snatching was yesterday shot dead during a gun battle with policemen attached to Ojodu division, Lagos.

THE Police in Lagos Monday confirmed the arrest of three suspected assassins who were allegedly planning to eliminate some branch chairmen of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in the state.

Following protracted battle against high blood pressure and acute ulcer, Special Adviser to Governor Babatunde Fashola on Information and Strategy, Mr. Segun Ayobolu, yesterday formally took his exit from the cabinet of the sate government.

The divorce suit instituted by Lagos lawyer and human rights activist, Mr Festus Keyamo, against his wife took another dimension yesterday with the wife, Mrs Isioma Irene Keyamo, filing her response to her husband’s petition, demanding N20 million as alimony before the court.

World soccer governing body, FIFA, will meet Wednesday in Johannesburg, South Africa, to take a final decision on the need to employ an extra referee for matches following an ever increasing controversial and costly decisions made by referees.

Following protracted battle against high blood pressure and acute ulcer, Special Adviser to Governor Babatunde Fashola on Information and Strategy, Mr. Segun Ayobolu, yesterday formally took his exit from the cabinet of the sate government.

Athletics coaches across the nation have hit hard at the seeming negligence the National Sports Commission NSC has foisted on their sport.

IN less than four weeks, the December 31 deadline target by President Yar’Adua government to give Nigerians 6000megawatts electricity will elapse and as expected, evidence on ground indicate that the government fell far bellow the target. One group which right from the onset and consistently dismissed the target is a mirage, is the organized labour […]

The Nembe community in Bayelsa State and Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd., (SPDC) have jointly commissioned 12 different development projects executed by the community under the Global Memorandum of Understanding (GMoU) initiative. The projects cost N215 million. SPDC Joint Venture provided the funds, while the community implemented the projects through the Community Development […]

Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has commended Super Eagle’s Chief Coach, Amodu Shaibu, for leading the senior national team to clinch the 2010 world cup ticket.