EDO State Board of Internal Revenue (BIR) in collaboration with the State Ministry of Lands and Survey Wednesday, sealed up NNPC Mega filling station, along Sapele Road and eight other landed properties in Benin City over their failure to pay their Ground Rent.

Dr Bayo Aluko-Olokun, a Consultant with the National Hospital, Abuja, has warned that men who contact mumps after puberty are prone to become victims of infertility.

The Ministry of Education is set to overhaul the infrastructure in the education sector and that government had also resolved to blacklist any student or schools involved in examination malpractice, Mr Nyesom Wike, Minister of State for Education, has said.

The Police in Anambra on Tuesday arrested a man for allegedly cutting off his aunt’s head and dumping her body in the cesspit of an uncompleted building.

Minna : The Northern Governors’ Forum is to convene an emergency meeting to proffer lasting solutions to the security challenges facing the country.

TRIPOLI (AFP) – Libya’s new leaders were Wednesday urgently seeking Niger’s help in preventing Muammar Gaddafi, his family or his troops from crossing the border, as the hunt for the fugitive strongman intensified. New regime forces meanwhile were poised to battle loyalist troops still holding out in their remaining strongholds of Bani Walid, southeast of […]

A twin bomb blasts, Tuesday evening, rocked Maiduguri metropolis as residents of Baga Road and Kalari ward scampered for safety.

TWO members of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, alleged to have masterminded Monday attack on the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, secretariat in Oyo State, where five persons were injured, have been arrested by the police.

Lagos State Government, yesterday, issued a nine-day ultimatum to commercial vehicle operators, who are yet to paint their vehicles to the approved yellow and black stripes colour of the state to comply or get them impounded.

QUETTA (AFP) – Twin suicide bombs targeting security forces responsible for the recent capture of senior Al-Qaeda operatives killed 24 people and wounded 82 others in southwest Pakistan Wednesday, police said. One attacker detonated his bomb-laden car outside the residence of the deputy chief of the Frontier Corps in Quetta city, before a second attacker […]

A powerful bomb hidden in a briefcase ripped through a crowd outside New Delhi’s High Court on Wednesday, killing 10 people and injuring 62, many of them petitioners waiting for their cases to be heard.

Institute of Chartered Economists of Nigeria, ICEN, has said that the crisis in Nigerian judiciary was “capable of jeopardising the efforts of government to improve the economic situation in the country,” especially at a time after revelations of the gory details of the botched privatisation exercise in the country.

FEDERAL Government has been told to declare a state of emergency in Ogoni area of Rivers State, with a view to tackling the health and environmental challenges faced by the people.

National Security Adviser, Gen. Andrew Owoye Azazi said yesterday that the nation’s security outfits were caught unawares by the new dimension introduced by Boko Haram sect, declaring that terrorism has come to stay.

The Department of State Security (SSS) disclosed yesterday that it has uncovered the building where the Boko Haram cell operating in the Suleija/Abuja axis manufactured and assembled their bombs, noting that the improvised explosive devices were assembled at a non-descript building located at a popular area known as Chechnya, Hayin-Uku village in Tafa LGA, Niger State.