Leading financial services firm, JP Morgan, has been appointed by the Federal Government as the custodian of the Sovereign Wealth Fund preparatory to the formal take off of the fund next month.

Abeg, get down from this bus. Go and meet your people who put you in this condition,” shouted a commuter, Ade, in the Oshodi-bound bus at Ota as a young man, crippled by poliomyelitis (polio) entered the bus to solicit alms.

Stephen Keshi, the Head Coach of the Super Eagles, said on Thursday that he had not given up hope on the possibility of fielding striker Emmanuel Emenike against Kenya in their World Cup qualifier.

Gov. Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta said the end of militancy in the Niger Delta region gave raise to the challenges of kidnapping, illegal bunkering and other criminal activities.

The police said on Thursday in Abuja that they have dislodged a terrorist cell in Minna, Niger state.

r Frederick Fasehun, the President of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), says President Goodluck Jonathan should be allowed to enjoy his “democratic rights” by contesting in the 2015 election.

Women in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have expressed confidence in the ability of a President Goodluck Jonathan-led administration in 2015 to guarantee more elective positions for Nigerian women.

Justice Adamu Bello of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, Monday, declined to sack Governor Liyel Imoke of Cross River State from office.

Kenya’s prime minister, a frontrunner in the March 4 presidential poll, accused Thursday the head of the civil service of attempting to manipulate the vote to his rivals’ advantage.

Three months after a reported case of wild polio in Jahi village, a community in the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), another case has been confirmed in Kabusa, Lugbe, FCT, an official said.