President Goodluck Jonathan has tasked Nigerian universities to intensify efforts at generating revenue internally to meet their developmental needs.

The Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the 18th National Sports Festival says the Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) will begin 24 hours service at the Games venues from

Reactions from major oil firms operating in Nigeria over a report from a government-appointed panel alleging questionable practices in Africa’s biggest oil-and-gas industry:

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has hit back at his critics after his side fell 10 points behind Premier League leaders Manchester United on Saturday.

Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State has described as untrue and the figment of the writer’s imagination a newspaper report that he is mobilising against his Ekiti and Osun states counterparts ahead of the gubernatorial elections due for 2014 in the states.

Mrs Fatimo Ajao pleaded with a Lagos court to dissolve her 19-year-old marriage over abandonment. She also alleged that her husband, Jamiu, turned her into punching bag and planned to kidnap their children.

Christians in the North-East have sent an appeal to the federal and state governments across the country as well as their counterparts in the South to help them out of what they described as a grand design to annihilate Christians in the region.

President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday congratulated President Ernest Bai Koroma on his re-election for another five-year term at the helm of his country’s affairs.

 Two men were shipwrecked in a deserted island.  One of them began screaming and yelling: “We’re going to die! There’s no food! No water!”  The other one was as calm as can be.  His colleague shouted at him: “Don’t you understand?! We’re going to die!” Unperturbed, the other man replied: “We won’t die.  I make ten million naira a week.”  “What difference does that make?” asked his colleague, now very irritated

Barrister Efiok Cobham, the state deputy governor, who disclosed this at the Congress of the African-Middle East Association of Gastroenterology, AMAGE, at the Tinapa Business and Leisure Resort, Calabar, said the feat was as a result of the state government’s efforts in the healthcare delivery.

ONE year after the former gubernatorial candidate of Citizens Popular Party, CPP, in Delta State, Chief Ogbe Onokpite, was allegedly assassinated by some police officers in Warri, the family, at the weekend, raised the alarm over alleged mysterious death of three witnesses in the controversial killing.

May it never happen; but it could! Imagine some Boko Haram terrorists threatening President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to meet a particular demand. Then imagine Mr. President trying to call the telephone line, possible to track them and make arrests only for the call to ring from the telephone in the pocket of his orderly. What should he do? How would he feel?

A suspected kidnap syndicate in Delta State, allegedly with police officers as members, is presently the subject of top-secret investigations by security agencies, both in the state and Abuja. The syndicate allegedly specialised in intimidating and collecting ransom from High Court judges and other prominent citizens in the state.

POLITICAL tension heightened in Edo State, yesterday, as the Deputy Governor of the state, Dr. Pius Odubu, vowed to sue the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in the last gubernatorial election in the state, Gen. Charles Airhiavbere, for libel. Odubu’s grouse was over the allegation that a man who slumped at the state governorship election petition tribunal sitting on Thursday was brought by him (the Deputy Governor) to perform “some dubious mission”.

Ahead of the speculated reshufflement of Ebonyi State executive council, the state government has suspended its Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Dr. Ben Igwenyi, for alleged improper dressing to a state function.