THE Presidential Candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, in the last presidential election, General Muhammadu Buhari has described the arrest of former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai as a flagrant violation of his rights.

Former Minister of Federal Capital Territory, FCT and Chieftain of Congress for Progressive Change, CPC,Mallam Nasir El-Rufai has been arrested by the State Security Service, SSS.

The political crisis in Cote d’Ivoire has led to the postponement of the West Africa Polytechnic Games (WAPOGA) earlier scheduled for June, the Director of Sports, Yaba College of Technology, Fredrick Yamala, has said.

The Retail Products Section of the NNPC and an indigenous company, Capital Oil and Gas, are to partner in the distribution of kerosene nation-wide through mobile truck platform.

President Goodluck Jonathan has just concluded the swearing of his batch A minsters.

The Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Malam Nasir El-Rufai this morning  was arrested by officers  of the State Security Service (SSS). The SSS arrested El-Rufai at about around 6.30 am at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja . El-Rufai  published his own arrest  on Twitter, a social network before his battery went wrote […]

New African and national records were set on Friday in the female weightlifting event at the ongoing 17th National Sports Festival in Port Harcourt which began on Monday.

Argentina star Lionel Messi said he was irked at his country’s rocky start at the Copa America on Friday following a 1-1 draw in La Plata with minnows Bolivia.

THE traditional ruler of Ogboin kingdom in Bayelsa state, King Oweipa Jones Sere, JP, has been released by his kidnappers. A statement from the Rivers state Police Command said the monarch was released in the early hours of Saturday.

Mr Joseph Daudu, President, Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, yesterday in Lagos, said the freedom of Information (FOI) Act when fully operational, will strengthen enforcement of court orders and judgments in the country.

Osogbo – (NAN) Oba Adebukola Alli, Alowa of Ilowa in Osun, standing trial for  alleged rape of a 23-year-old NYSC member, was on Friday remanded in prison custody. When the case came up at an Osogbo Chief Magistrates’ Court, the lead defence counsel, Mr Victor Opara, sought for the vacation of an earlier order of […]

he Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, has placed the shares of Dangote Flour Mills Plc, Transnational Corporation of Nigeria Plc, Transcorp, Forte Oil Plc, formerly African Petroleum Plc and 45 others on technical suspension, for failing to present to the authorities, their financial statements for the 2010 financial year, seven months after the end of the financial year and five months to the end of the current financial year.

With just four days gone in the on-going National Sport Festival in the Garden City of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, former Bauchi State Commissioner of Youth and Sports, Alhaji Sani Toro has advised the Federal Government to use the Games to unify the country more.

As the 17th National Sports Festival continues in the Garden City of Port Harcourt, Rivers States, Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has stated that Team Edo will finish tops at the end of proceedings.

The transition committee set up by Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State has said the immediate past Governor, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala spent a mouth-watering N24 billion on road contracts in the year 2010 alone without regard for quality and maintenance.