Abuja – Sports Minister Taoheed Adedoja said on Monday in Abuja that Nigeria could not justify its absence in most top positions on the continent’s sports bodies.

Dangote Cement Plc (DCP) a member of the Dangote Group has posted a Profit Before Tax (PBT) of N27.90 billion for the first quarter ended March 31, 2010.

The Kebbi Government has concluded plans to recruit 1,200 additional teachers for its senior and junior secondary schools, the Commissioner for Education, Alhaji Sani Rukubalo, has said.

Soldiers were drafted to strategic locations in the ancient town of Ikere-Ekiti yesterday when the students of the 31 years old College of Education in the town took to the streets, protesting hike in school fees recently introduced by the authorities of the college.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday called on rich nations to provide investment rather than charity in poorer countries.

The police in Abuja yesterday arraigned a house wife before an Abuja Magistrate Court for dumping a dead baby in a pit behind Ushafa Camp fence in Bwari, Abuja.

THE Debt Management Office, DMO, said, yesterday, that the nation’s external debt portfolio at the end of 2010 stood at about $ 4.5 billion, with the domestic debt at N4.5 trillion.

Disputed oil wells: RMAFC okays escrow account for Akwa Ibom, Rivers ABUJA — THE Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC, yesterday, ordered that the monthly allocation, including the 13 percent Derivation Fund for Akwa Ibom and Rivers State be put in an escrow account pending the resolution of the dispute over the location of […]

THE insensitivity of Governor Isa Yuguda’s remarks about National Youth Service Corps members killed in his state is worsened by his lame attempt to deny the comments, a denial that confirmed the governor really uttered those words at a time families are mourning over the senseless killing of their wards.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, heeded the popular call to probe the post-election violence in some of the northern states as he appointed a 22-man panel of inquiry to look into the causes of the violence.

FOR the people of Gbongan in Ayedaade Local Government Area of Osun State, Tuesday, May 3, was indeed a sad day, a day two families from the small town would always want to forget.

The Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, MOnday, disclosed the rationale behind its decision to challenge the outcome of the April 16 presidential election in court, saying it has gathered enough prima-facie evidence capable of sacking President Goodluck Jonathan from office this year.

THE Dr Samuel Ogbemudia/Admiral Mike Akhigbe-led Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State, yesterday, gave reasons why the PDP lost to the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in the just concluded general elections in the state, saying that the group worked for the ACN candidates because “we were taken for granted by Chief Tony Anenih.”

EVENTS in the Middle East and Africa are yet to be adequately appraised by the Security Council. That organ responsible for maintaining and protecting the global peace is yet enmeshed in its near 50 years of improvisation security diplomacy. This fact is exemplified in its Resolution 1973 that provides cover for NATO’s no-fly-zone in Libya.

UNFAZED by reported plans of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to knock off six million votes from the 12,214,853 which the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, presidential candidate, Maj General Muhammadu Buhari, got at the April 16 presidential polls, leaders of the party have outlined measures they would adopt to stop President Goodluck Jonathan at the Tribunal.