The National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP), is poised to help Nigeria assume its proper position in Africa.

Jigawa State Governor, Sule Lamido has lamented what he described as lack of unity in the north as unhealthy and urged leaders in the area to shun discrimination by working for the development of the zone.

Eagles’ striker Ekigho Ehiosu refused to share in the belief that the prediction of Pastor TB Joshua caused the downfall of the Eagles.

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has appointed the former Publicity Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State, Mr. Nosa Adams as Executive Director, Emergency Management.

Wives of traditional rulers in Benue State Sunday condemned spate of political violence rocking the state, describing the situation as a deliberate impediment to socio-economic development.

Vice President Namadi Sambo has said that the Federal Government will continue to support establishment of private universities to cater for the growing number of applicants seeking admissions

Mobile policemen, Weekend, stormed Ebute kekere street, Akesan near Obadore in Igando area of Lagos, sending shivers down the spines of the residents, as the police burst a gang of kidnappers whose hide-out was in the neighbourhood.

The Technical Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation, at an emergency meeting on Saturday night issued a query to the Head Coach of Super Eagles, Mr. Samson Siasia over Saturday’s failure of Nigeria to reach the finals of the 2012 African Cup of Nations.

Thousands of Nigerians thronged the streets of Manhattan in New York City on Saturday to celebrate the 2011 National Independence Day parade.

An Abuja-based Islamic scholar, Imam Fuad Adeyemi, on Sunday in Abuja attributed the cause of crisis in the northern part of Nigeria to the perpetrators’ low level of education.

EDO State governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has advised all stakeholders in the education sector to brace up for the rehabilitation of the sector noting that the future of the country depends largely in its human capacity development and not the oil sector.

Artisans in Asaba, Delta, have decried the proposed removal of fuel subsidy and appealed to Federal Government to have a re-think on the issue in the interest of the masses.

Argentinian football legend Diego Maradona felt obliged to apologise to the supporters of United Arab Emirates club Al-Wasl here on Sunday after the club were thrashed 5-0 by Dubai.

At a time when the Federal Government of Nigeria and its component states are just agreeing to pay the new minimum wage of N18,000, the planned removal of subsidy on petroleum products would no doubt throw another spanner in the works. This report would show that at best, the ritual of a massive industrial action would again be performed, while at the same time the real benefits of the subsidy may suffer undue discount in the face of an insincere approach to subsidy removal – for the umpteenth time.

Mr Soja Dantanimu, former Assistant Secretary of PDP in Taraba, has appealed to the Federal Government to reconsider its stand on the proposed removal of subsidy on petroleum products.