The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, yesterday, shut a total of 16 bakeries and water production outfits for non compliance to Good Manufacturing Practices, GMP, and Good Hygienic Practice, GHP, in three different locations in Lagos.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has urged Libya’s Col Muammar Gaddafi to step down as “all options are open”. “We are not saying that Gaddafi needs to be exiled. He must leave power and the quicker he does it, the greater his choice,” Mr Sarkozy told journalists. He is hosting a meeting of leaders from the […]

Two former internationals, Christian Chukwu and Olusegun Odegbami, on Thursday in Abuja expressed confidence that Nigeria’s Super Eagles would overcome Argentina in their June 1 international friendly.

CHAIRMAN of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Delta State, Chief Peter Nwabaoshi, has denied alleged plot by his party to bomb the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, office, Asaba.

President Goodluck Jonathan has described majority of those lobbying for appointments into ministerial positions and boards of federal parastatals as selfish people who do not have the interest of the Nigerian masses at heart, saying only about 10 per cent of such lobbyists have done so based on patriotic considerations.

The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke, SAN, yesterday, joined the Labour Party to ask a Federal High Court in Abuja to declare sections 140(2) and 141 of the Electoral Act 2010, as amended, which stipulated specific order a tribunal can make in election petition case, as unconstitutional, null and void.

Uneasy calm has continued to pervade the ancient town of Badagry days after the skirmish between the Police and soldiers from the 242 Recce Battalion, Ibereko Barracks, as shops and business centres remained closed for fear of the unknown.

NEWSPAPERS Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria, NPAN, yesterday, elected publisher of Thisday Newspapers, Mr. Nduka Obaigbena, as its president at the end of its Annual General Meeting, yesterday.

The Minister of Environment, Mr. John Odey has commended Vanguard Newspapers over its initiative in combating desertification and dryland degradation in the country.

In a bid to combat the rising rate of pipeline vandalism in the country, the Federal Government has employed the services of about 12,000 youths from various communities in the Niger Delta, that cut across the pipelines right of way.