No fewer than 145 registered Nigerian pensioners resident in the UK are to participate in the biometric data capturing exercise for pensioners scheduled to start from March 1.

Tea sellers in Maiduguri have increased the price of tea due to the high cost of sugar

Rivers Commissioner for Sports, Boma Iyaye, says many facilities for the 17th National Sports Festival are now ready for use.

ACN gubernatorial candidate in Ogun, Sen. Ibikunle Amosun, has promised to implement a free education and health care programmes if elected.

Asset Management Company of Nigeria, AMCON, said yesterday it was set to start the second round of non-performing loan purchases from the banking sector and was on track to soak up all bad credit by the end of next month.

Nigeria’s Minister of Sports and Chairman National Sports Commission, Prof Taoheed Adedoja has invited the leadership of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) for a meeting over the aborted Obama Cup in the United States of America and possibly seek redress over the trauma the Super Eagles went through due to lack of proper planning by the organizers.

Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on National Assembly Matters, Senator Mohammed Abba Aji, vowed yesterday to ensure that the president does not sign the Freedom of Information, FoI, Bill into law even as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Media, Senator Ayogu Eze assured that the Senate will pass the Bill, in accordance with the yearnings of Nigerians

Eleven persons arraigned before a Bayelsa State High Court sitting in Kaiama, over their alleged involvement in the attack on the Labour Party governorship candidate in Bayelsa State and his party supporters at Opokuma in the Kolokuma-Opokuma Local Government Area of the state on January 7, 2011 in which some lives were lost, were, yesterday, remanded at Ahaoda Prisons, as the court adjourned till April 3, to rule on their bail application.

GUBERNATORIAL candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Kwara State, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, has explained the defection of Senator Olusola Saraki from the Peoples Democratic Party as a natural flow of a father’s love who cannot disown his daughter.

Bauchi State Chapter of the Nigeria Medical Association, has begun an indefinite strike to protest alleged abduction of a medical officer, identified as Dr. Sambo, of the General Hospital Boto, Tafawa Balewa local government of Bauchi state, by the Special Task Force (STF) in Plateau state.