The Court of Appeal sitting in Akure on Wednesday dismissed an appeal filed by former Chairmen of Local Governments in Ondo State over their removal from office two years ag

The Federal Polytechnic, Ede, and Nasarawa Polytechnic have qualified for the finals of the male football competition at the ongoing NIPOGA Games at Ede, Osun State.

IMF director Christine Lagarde has welcomed pledges from Switzerland, Poland and other countries to provide some $34 billion in additional funding for the world lender.

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has warned that it would resist any attempt by Kebbi State Government to withdraw the full payment of the N18,000-minimum wage that was earlier approved.

Eight suspects, including a 14-year-old boy, will appear in a South African court on Thursday for the rape of a 17-year-old girl whose attack was filmed and has gone viral.

IKEJA – An Ikeja High Court, Lagos, yesterday, dismissed an application by the Attorney-General of Lagos State, Mr. Ade Ipaye, asking the court for a stay of execution of the judgment of the court delivered in favour of an illegally-detained Nigerian, Mamman Keita.

A Texas nurse has been charged with murder for shooting a young mother and kidnapping her three-day-old baby outside a pediatrician’s office, officials said Wednesday.

Permanent cards for 40 million registered voters across the country would be ready by October 31, 2012, even as contract for the project worth N2.6 billion has been awarded to ACT Technologies Ltd.

WHEN people say politics is the only serious business in Nigeria, they are stating the obvious. Oil and gas may be providing the resources that fuel the economy, but nobody talks about the sector with the futuristic focus Nigerian leaders bring to politics.

ONE year after the brutal murder of 10 corps members in Giade, Bauchi State during the April 2011 general elections, families and friends of the victims, yesterday asked the Federal Government to bring perpetrators of the dastardly act and their sponsors to book.

The House of Representatives Ad-hoc committee that investigated the implementation of the subsidy regime in the country, yesterday, recommended that the sum of N1,067,040,456,171.31 be refunded to the Federation Account by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, marketers, companies that refused to appear before the committee as well as the Petroleum Product Pricing and Regulatory Agency.

Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, said yesterday, that a new amendment to the 1999 Constitution would be ready by July 2013.

NIGERIA Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday opposed the scrapping of the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, and Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, perceived to have proven records of success.

THE Senate, yesterday, urged the Federal Government to invoke its military might and all instruments of national power at its disposal to put an end to the high level of terrorism in the country following incessant attacks by members of the Boko Haram sect.

GOVERNORS of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN- controlled states in the South-West, yesterday, rose in defence of Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State over the allegation of planning to islamise the state and secede from Nigeria.