Kantin Kwari Market Traders Association in Kano has donated N4 million to the state Hisbah Commission for the upcoming mass wedding of widows and divorcees.

Scientists used an iPhone and a camera lens to diagnose intestinal worms in rural Tanzania, a breakthrough that could help doctors treat patients infected with the parasites, a study said on Tuesday.

THE House of Rep Representative was Tuesday told how an Israeli construction worker in Edo State was hurriedly deported to his country following his alleged revelation that the popular five junctions in Benin City was being reconstructed by the Edo State government contrary to claims that it was the Federal Government.

The Federal Government, Tuesday, appointed the Director of Aerodrome Services, Mr. Joyce Nkemakolam, as the acting Director General of Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, Tuesday, appealed to the striking Federal Judicial workers under the aegis of Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, JUSUN, sheath sword and return to work.

Black smoke, signifying no new pope had been elected on the first day of ballot, oozed out of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, Tuesday, where a total of 115 cardinals gathered to elect the 266th pontiff for the Catholic Church.

FORMER Deputy Senate President, Ibrahim Mantu, has said that the future of the Nigeria youth will continue to remain bleak except the youth embrace opportunities through enterprises in skills acquisitions.

FORMER Chief of Staff Supreme Military Council, and brother of the late President, Major General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua; former Chief of General Staff, Oladipo Diya and former Governor of Bayelsa State, Chief DSP Alamieyeseigha were among those granted state pardon.

The Athletics Federation of Nigeria, AFN, has moved to make participation in the forth-coming African Junior Athletics Championships easier for visiting contingents.

No fewer than 63 people died in 140 road accidents in different parts of Ogun between Jan.1 and Feb. 28.

Blackberry and the Lagos State Innovation Advisory Council have teamed up, and last week signed a Letter of Intent outlining their intention to build a BlackBerry Apps Lab in Lagos.

The President of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), Fadi Chehadé has unfolded plans to have six new ICANN representatives on the African continent.

The first black smoke emerged from the chimney on the Sistine Chapel roof on Tuesday, signalling that the cardinals meeting in a secret conclave have failed in their first vote to elect a new pope.

Three-time former Secretary General of the Nigeria Football Association, P. O. C. Achebe is dead. The former scribe died last Saturday in Atlanta, USA where he was residing temporarily.

Some women in Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau State have clashed with men of the Special Task Force (STF) maintaining security in the state injuring six of them in the process. Several of the villagers also sustained injuries in the clash with the soldiers.

However, while the STF is alleging that the women were hostile towards its men, the women have also protested what they called maltreatment and arbitrariness by the soldiers in the course of their duty calling for their withdrawal from their communities.