Flying Eagles will not be in the ‘Group of Death’ at the 2013 U20 World Cup after they were drawn with Portugal and Cuba.

Central Bank of Nigeria has extended the deadline for microfinance banks (MFBs) in the country to be recapitalised.

Lafarge Wapco Plc has proposed a dividend of N1.20 per share to its shareholders for the year ended December 31, 2012.

Nigerian Officials have expressed joy over the country’s victory at the just concluded Africa Youths Athletics Championship (AYAC).

Defence Headquarters has said taht crude oil theft has dropped from 60,000 barrels per day (bpd) to 23,000. The Chief of Training and Operations, Maj.-Gen. Lawrence Ngubane, announced this in Bile, Okirika Local Government Area of Rivers, during a tour to some operational bases of the Joint Task Force (JTF).

Federal Ministry of Aviation has debunked newspaper report that Boeing Corporation of the US, a foremost and major aircraft manufacturer in the world, may have rebuffed overtures from the Nigerian government to assist it in carrying out an airworthiness/re-certification of aircraft in the fleet of domestic airlines in the country.

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has announced a review of bank charges designed to come into effect, April 1, 2013, increasing the amount charged for counter cheques to N200 per leaflet.

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Two Nigerian female scientists have bagged the UNESCO-L’Oreal “Women in Science Partnership’’ award for their contributions to the advancement of scientific knowledge in the country.

Malian troops backed by French forces on Sunday clashed with Islamist fighters who had infiltrated the northern city of Timbuktu, leaving three jihadists and one Malian soldier dead, an army officer said.

rsenal manager Arsene Wenger is preparing for a homecoming of sorts when he brings his English Premier League team to Japan for a friendly against Nagoya Grampus, club officials said.

THE news about the death of Chinua Achebe hit me in a very personal way, coming exactly a fortnight of the burial of my eldest brother, Benji; as his Owerri contemporaries called my own “head of state”, Ben C. Nwigwe.

The FRSC has arrested 246 motorists in Kwara, Edo, Osun, Jigawa and Ekiti States for violating various traffic offences in the commission’s ongoing nationwide special patrol for the Easter festivities.

Pope Francis prayed for a “political solution” in Syria and for “reconciliation” on the Korean peninsula in his first Easter Sunday message in front of a crowd in St Peter’s Square.

The Joint Military Taskforce has averted what would have been a bloody Easter in Kano following a combat operation that left 14 insurgents dead and a primed car laden with explosives for suicide attack and assorted weapons of war recovered.