Former Vice-President of the World Bank,  Dr Obiageli Ezekwesili,  on Friday lauded the Federal Government’s emphasis on agricultural development in the country.

Governors on the platform of the All Progressive Congress have asked the Federal Government to desist from dictatorial acts capable of adding more pains to the suffering of Nigerians.

Real Madrid’s president on Tuesday revealed that Gareth Bale had cost 91 million euros, confirming the Welsh winger had been insured for the value of his transfer fee

AREWA Consultative Forum, ACF, has urged Muslim faithful to live up to the tenets of Islam as a religion of peace in their daily lives as they celebrate Eid el kabr. In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Anthony Sani, ACF said “The celebrations of Eid el Kabr symbolize absolute submission to Allah through personal sacrifices in promotion of peaceful coexistence, perseverance, tolerance, love and accommodation of our neighbors, reconciliation and forgiveness.

A bomb hidden in a microphone killed an Afghan provincial governor Tuesday as he made a speech at a mosque after Eid prayers in Logar, close to the capital Kabul, officials said.

Rights group Amnesty International on Monday called for an urgent investigation after saying it had evidence that hundreds of people had died in detention facilities during a crackdown on Islamists in Nigeria.

Police in Enugu have arrested a woman that allegedly faked her own kidnap to demand a ransom from her husband.
Nancy Chukwu is accused of conspiring with a man to stage her abduction in Enugu and asking for 200,000 naira (£780; $1,250) ransom.

THE state of the economy is discussed in muted tunes. Nigerians have not been parties to the economic decisions that they bear the brunt. Public funds are essentially seen as the property of those who preside over them.

The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, yesterday, hinged its allegation of islamisation of Osun State against Governor Rauf Aregbesola on a security report by the Department of State Services, DSS, which the body claimed indicted the governor over the issue.

Senator Babafemi Ojudu (APC, Ekiti Central), in this interview with Vanguard Politics takes a swipe at President Goodluck Jonathan’s decision to set up an advisory committee for a national conference describing it as a sham.

A gang of armed robbers, yesterday, attacked Makarfi Divisional Police Station, in Makarfi, the headquarters of Makarfi Local Government Council of Kaduna State disarming all the policemen at the station.

Edo State Police Command, yesterday, paraded 55 suspected kidnappers and armed robbers, including two alleged kidnap kingpins, Emmanuel Otono and David Osamu, who have been on the wanted list of security operatives in the state due to their involvement in several kidnap operations in the state.

BY GBENGA OLARINOYE OSOGBO — Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, has debunked insinuations in certain quarters that the ongoing education reforms in the state are aimed at obliterating the heritage and changing the identities of the affected schools. Aregbesola said the school re-classification of government hinges on total re-engineering of the state education sector […]

Super Eagles boss, Stephen Keshi says the team will play as if it had not played a first leg encounter when both teams clash November 16, in Calabar.

THE Tribunal of Enquiry into the December 26, 2012 firecrackers explosion headed by Justice Sunday Ishola has recommended that the state government should put in place a new law to control the storage and use of fireworks within the state.