Super Eagles Coach, Stephen Keshi has insisted that he was yet to settle for the number of home-based players that he was going to parade in Rwanda in next month’s 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier.

The removal of petroleum subsidy by the Federal Government has led to sharp increase in fares in Bayelsa State.

A renewed appeal has gone to the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, not to relent in religiously pursuing all the maternal and child survival programmes it initiated in the country.

THE joy of the people of Lagos Central Senatorial district knew no bounds when their representative in the Senate, Senator Oluremi Tinubu empowered rural women and awarded scholarship to many of her constituents.

FOLLOWING its series of free cleft lip/palate surgeries for 30 indigent Nigerians in Ondo, Ekiti and Lagos States, as well as the provision of microcredit facilities, education scholarships, the Health, Education, Work and Shelter (HEWS) Foundation, is expanding its scope of activities in the new year.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has slated January 5, for the conduct of the rerun election for Rivers East Senatorial District.

Members of the House of Representatives, last night, called an emergency meeting of its leadership to deliberate on the removal of fuel subsidy on New Year day by President Goodluck Jonathan.

The Nigerian Police has dismissed the purported ultimatum given to southerners living in the Northern parts of the country by Boko Haram to relocate from the areas in view of the state of emergency issued by President Goodluck Jonathan as a rumour.

IN a move to avert a looming shut down of socio-economic activities in the country by organised labour following the New Year day removal of fuel subsidy, President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday set up a committee, headed by a former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Alfa Belgore, to meet with organised labour and other stakeholders with a view to resolving issues that may arise from the controversy.

MARSEILLE (AFP) – French breast implant manufacturer PIP used a fuel additive in its now-banned implants which the company knew were defective as early as 2005, it was revealed on Monday. The growing litany of accusations against now-defunct Poly Implant Prothese has triggered a worldwide scare with several countries, including France, advising thousands of women […]

LEADERS of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and their Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, counterpart, will tomorrow meet to fix a date for the commencement of a general strike, mass protest and rally to force government rescind the January 1, 2012, subsidy removal that has skyrocketed the pump price of petrol to over N150 per litter.

Those who travelled to various parts of the country for Christmas and New Year celebrations may not find easy returning to their bases following hike in transportation fares due to the removal of oil subsidy by the Federal Government.

Former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida, yesterday condemned the removal of fuel subsidy by the Federal Government, saying the move was ill- timed.

Lagos lawmakers and the Association of Professional Bodies of Nigeria (APBN), on Monday reacted to the removal of petrol subsidy by the Federal Government, describing it as ill-timed and a painful pill.

Transport fares have risen by a hundred per cent in Plateau State following the removal of subsidy and the increase in the price of petrol generating outcries from citizens.