Taiwan’s leading smartphone maker HTC said Thursday it plans to pay about $309 million for a 51 percent stake in a firm run by US star producer Dr Dre that produces high-end headphones.

A mechanical engineer with Dangote Sugar Refinery Company, Mr Jibrin Baba, yesterday said reports on the August 2010 multiple accidents, involving one of its trucks on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, as presented by the Vehicle Inspector Officer, VIO, and Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, were confusing.

British Prime Minister David Cameron will address an emergency session of parliament Thursday on the worst riots in a generation after a major police operation and heavy rain stopped a fifth night of violence.

A female suicide attacker and a handcart bomb targeted Pakistani police on Thursday, killing seven people in the first deadly attacks to hit the northwest during Ramadan, officials said.

The fear of attacks by Islamic militants in Nigeria is spreading South to the nation’s commercial capital, Lagos, where city buses are being checked for bombs.

BUSINESS mogul and chairman of NICON Group, Dr. Jimoh Ibrahim, and the Senate Adhoc Committee on Privatisation are now embroiled in an argument over how he acquired NICON Insurance Corporation.

A lone gun man, Tuesday, shot dead the Chief Accountant of Western Metal Products Company Limited, WEMCO, along Acme Road, Ogba, Lagos, carting away an unspecified amount of money.

THE lingering crises threatening to rip apart the top echelon of the nation’s judiciary may not be over soon if Justice Ibrahim Auta three-men panel recommendation is any thing to go by.

Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State yesterday made history as he named his son, Yakubu, one of the 21 special advisers he appointed.

WHY are we ever so ready to concede Nigeria to criminals? The suggestion of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, for suspension of night travels meets this standard of postponing challenges under the pretence of solving them. Fourteen passengers died on a night trip last week on the Okene-Lokoja road not because they were travelling […]

GOVERNOR Sullivan Chime of Enugu State, yesterday, pledged to give the late veteran actor, Sam Loco Efe, a state burial. Gov, Chime described his death as a great loss to the entertainment industry, Enugu State and Nigeria.

DEMOCRATIC Peoples Party, DPP, governorship candidate during the January 6 re-run election in Delta State, Chief Great Ogboru, yesterday, appealed the judgment of the tribunal before the Court of Appeal, Benin.

This month is introduced as a month of sympathy, love and affection. The Prophet (SAW) has said. Whoever reduces the burden and work of those who are under him. Allah will forgive him and save him from Hell fire.

TO ensure the multi-billion Naira East-West road that stretches across the six states of the South-South was not abandoned, the Federal Government, yesterday, approved additional funding of N106 billion as augmentation cost for the project.

Attempts by Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, former chief security officer to the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, to frustrate cross examination by the prosecution from one of the statements he claimed to have made under duress while he was being investigated for alleged murder of Alhaja Kudirat Abiola, wife of late Chief M.K.O. Abiola suffered set back yesterday with the trial court dismissing his objection.