A plant scientist, Dr Margret Katung, on Wednesday urged farmers to apply adequate fertilisers in pepper farms to improve its yield.

WHETHER we desire it or not, we can’t always have things our way as far as boxing is concerned. Or – putting it in simpler form — we live for the sport, as opposed to the reverse perception that pro boxing is there at our beck and call.

Ex militant leaders in the Niger Delta Thursday threatened to storm Abuja in protest over what they described as the inability of the Federal Government to guarantee their safety alleging that four of their members had been brutally killed in the last one year after embracing the amnesty programme.

The Minister of Aviation, Mrs Fidelia Njeze, has said that the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has commenced investigations into the cause of the crash which took place in Kaduna on Tuesday.

Eleven Nigerian artistes are to entertain spectators at the presidential inauguration football match, scheduled for May 28, the event’s organising committee said on Wednesday in Abuja.

Intercontinental Bank says it has successfully migrated its over four million customers’ accounts to the CBN approved 10-digit Nigerian Uniform Bank Account Number (NUBAN) system.

A London leading retailer shop, Debenhams, has adopted Hausa, a language spoken by nearly 45 million people in West Africa including Nigeria, to woo customers as race for summer sales starts.

The North East PDP caucus in the House of Representatives said in Abuja that it supported the zoning arrangement of political offices at the national level which ceded the deputy speakership to the North East.

Minna –  Five suspected persons  were on Wednesday arraigned before a Minna Chief Magistrates’ Court for murder. The suspects were alleged to have murdered a 12-year-old boy, Shamshudeen Musa, for rituals in Sabunga Village in Rafi Local Government Area of Niger, two weeks ago. The suspects are Mohammed Haruna, Musa Ahmadu, Isah Musa, Yakubu Garba […]

Ibadan – Out-going Gov Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State said in Ibadan on Thursday that his administration was leaving the state better than he met it four years ago. Alao-Akala, who made the remark in a special valedictory address to the people of the state, said: “We have no reason to leave the scene unannounced”. […]

WE welcome our President back from Uganda. Our President has outgrown being assessed by the company he keeps.

DELTA State Bursary and Scholarship Board, yesterday, awarded scholarships to 522 undergraduate, masters and PhD students of the state origin under its Internal (Local) Scholarship Scheme at the cost of N99.992million for the year 2010.

It was free for all, yesterday, at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos when passengers of Air Nigeria engaged the airline staff for depriving them of traveling due to cancellation of all flights by the airline.

Fresh facts emerged yesterday on how the Divisional of Police of Badagry , Mr Samuel Salihu, the DCO, Mr Samson Okedusi and three other policemen met their unprepared end Tuesday, after they were attacked by soldiers.

Director-General of the National Sports Commission, Chief Patrick Ekeji, may have taken up the responsibility to resolve the near war situation that is brewing among members of the Alhaji Aminu Maigari-led Nigeria Football Federation and the Nigeria Football Association being headed by Jarret Tenebe.