UBA Foundation, the corporate social responsibility arm of United Bank for Africa Plc, is organizing a Mini-Marathon in Lagos to create awareness on Prostate Cancer.

KABUL (AFP) – Afghanistan’s intelligence agency said Friday that it had foiled a massive truck bomb plot in which 7,800 kilogrammes of explosives could have wiped out an area of Kabul. The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said the attack had been planned by the Pakistan-based Haqqani network and the Taliban leadership, though it offered […]

President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday commended Kanu Heart Foundation’s plan to establish a Cardiac Hospital in Nigeria.

The Federal Government’s N3 billion grant to Nollywood will stimulate film production in Nigeria, Mr Afolabi Adesanya, the Managing Director/Chief Executive officer of Nigerian Film Corporation (NFC) , said.

A Catholic Priest in Umuahia, Rev. Fr. Leo Amafili, has said that the new Catholic Pontiff, Pope Francis, cannot alter the Catholic doctrine on celibacy and female priesthood.

The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, has called on Fulani herdsmen and farmers to desist from taking laws into their hands whenever there is a misunderstanding between them.

SON of Alhaji Arisekola-Alao, an Ibadan businessman, Abdullahi was, yesterday, re-arraigned before Justice Olabisi Akinlade over an alleged N2.6 billion fuel subsidy fraud.

PORT HARCOURT — NIGERIAN Identity Management Commission, NIMC, has dismissed fears that the ongoing electronic identification of Nigerians, was a gradual fulfillment of the Biblical 666 mark of the beast.

The House of Representatives has mandated its Committee on Banking and Currency to investigate the structure and composition of approved bank charges on all accounts in Nigeria. The resolution followed a motion by Rep. Babatunde Kazeem (ACN-Lagos), which was adopted when put to vote by the Speaker, Rep. Aminu Tambuwal.

Pope Francis sounds fresh and his adopted name, could reflect the papacy of Argentine Jorge Bergoglio, the first non-European pope in 1,300 years (since Gregory III, a Syrian, in 731), the first pope from Latin America, though with strong Italian roots, and the first Jesuit priest to be pope.

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, yesterday, said Nigeria spends about N635 billion on wheat, wheat flour for use in bread, confectioneries and other foods.

Policemen attached to Lion building division, Lagos, have arrested a staff of the Ketu branch of an old generation bank and his lover who is a student of the Lagos State University, Jibowu campus, for allegedly defrauding his employers of N40 million .

Eight persons, including a child died instantly in an accident which occurred on the Okene-Lokoja highway on Thursday.

The United States of America, USA, has expressed concern at the rate crime is spreading in Nigeria. The American government lamented the worsening crime rate in coastal areas and the free movement of Islamic extremists between Mali and Nigeria.

Three persons were, yesterday, arrested by the Osun state Government for illegal gold mining in Atakumosa West local government area of the state.