MTN Nigeria, yesterday, finalised agreement with Huawei Technologies to extend telecommunications services to about 350 uncovered Nigerian villages and communities that have not tested telecommunications services for the first time.

TRAGEDY struck in Enugu Wednesday night when a multiple auto crash reportedly claimed 25 lives and left 23 others with injuries.

THE Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Monday began the process of the second amendment to the 1999 Constitution to accommodate the time constraint faced by the Independent National Electoral Commission as it set out to conduct what the chairman of the commission, Professor Attahiru Jega promised to be the fairest and freest election in the last decade.

GOV ERNOR Olugbenga Daniel of Ogun State, yesterday, admitted that things were no longer rosy for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the South West saying that members of the party would have to be careful to prevent its total annihilation in the area.

A one-million-man evangelist campaign aimed at praying for lasting peace in Gombe State in particular and Nigeria at large, is underway.

RELIEF is on the way for the people in the Ondo Central Senatorial district, Ondo State as the state government has ordered the contractor handling the N14 billion Owena Multi purpose dam back to site to complete the project.

PENSIONERS under the umbrella of the Nigerian Union of Pensioners, NUP, in Ondo State, have raised alarms that over 2,000 of them were not registered during the recent biometric exercise conducted in the state.

Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has admonished communities in the state whose sons and daughters are considered for political appointments not to overburden them with demands.

The Presidency yesterday distanced itself from reports that President Goodluck Jonathan had personally effected a new revenue profile for his home state, Bayelsa, without recourse to due process.

Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, former military president and presidential aspirant on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said that he decided to run for the 2011 presidential election because of his desire to pull the country out of its current political and economic crisis.

Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, yesterday, said it has granted provisional approval for new licences to 121 out of the 224 micro-finance Banks, MFBs, which licences were recently revoked, subject to the fulfilment of some specific require-ments within three months.

By Ben Efe World soccer governing body FIFA, has extended its investigation of the cash for vote saga to the World Cup bids of Spain and Qatar. It was learnt that FIFA began investigation of the countries’ bid and if found wanting, Spain and Qatar could be disqualified from the bidding process. Spain is one […]

A group in the Niger Delta, under the auspices of the Warri Transparency Group, yesterday, appealed to the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, to resolve the issue of political imbalance in Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State, by creating additional state House of Assembly seats in the area.

FOUR suspected abductors, allegedly involved in the kidnapping of a popular transporter in Benin, Edo State, have been arrested by a Joint Security Patrol Team.

When I first came across the mouth to mouth picture, I was sure it had been photoshopped. But seeing the rest of the collection, my indifference turned to concern. Now, I am made to understand that the pictures were purposely conceived and painstakingly achieved in a professional photo shoot that should portray the subjects’ intention. And what would that (the intention) be? Simple, to sell a magazine!