The All Progressives Congress, APC, has won all 17 chairmanship seats contested for in the local government elections in Yobe State.

CHAIRMAN, House Committee on Petroleum Resources, downstream sector, Dakuku Peterside, has said the National Assembly would pass the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, next year.

Scientist at the Gladstone Institutes have identified the precise chain of molecular events in the human body that drives the death of most of the immune system’s CD4 T cells as an HIV infection leads to AIDS.

Widely regarded as the world’s most healthy food, the tomato has an enviable pedigree. One of the most important secrets in tomato is lycopene – a carotenoid pigment that has long been associated with the deep red colour of many tomatoes.

Civil Liberties Organisation, CLO, and civil societies from the six geo-political zones of the country, have concluded plans to form a new coalition and intensify campaign for the prosecution of former President Olusegun Obasanjo over the 1999 military invasion and destruction of Odi community in Bayelsa State.

Lagos State Government on Sunday said it had spent N1billion to support no fewer than 400 graduate farmers to set up their own farms.

Chelsea demonstrated their Premier League championship credentials by coming from behind to beat title rivals Liverpool 2-1 in an engaging and keenly contested game at Stamford Bridge on Sunday. Martin Skrtel gave Liverpool a third-minute lead, but Chelsea hit back before half-time through Eden Hazard and Samuel Eto’o to give manager Jose Mourinho victory over […]

The Presidency, Sunday, reviewed its performance in the outgoing year and gave itself a pass mark, saying that it recorded unprecedented feat despite distractions from the opposition.
It boasted that during the year major policies were made and key projects executed for the good of Nigerians.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, gave the presidential score cared in a statement made available to Vanguard in Abuja.

Tragedy was averted, Sunday, when a Boeing 737 plane with over 100 passengers belonging to Aero Contractors had a bust tyre at the Murtala Mohammed Airport, MMA, Lagos.

A bomb near an army intelligence building wounded four soldiers Sunday, the third such blast within a week after the Muslim Brotherhood’s designation as a terrorist organisation further polarised Egypt.

A group of Islamists jailed in Mauritania for terrorist activity linked to Al-Qaeda announced a hunger strike on Sunday, demanding an end to “arbitrary measures” including being denied parole and having to pay to be released.

A female suicide bomber killed 14 people Sunday when she blew herself up at the main train station in the southern city of Volgograd, raising concerns about security in Russia just six weeks before the Sochi Olympic Games.

“By the next two years, the university plans to introduce the Igbo language as a compulsory subject for all students in the second year.

“Whether you are Yoruba, Hausa or Efik, you must take Igbo as a compulsory subject, in spite of your area of specialisation,’’ he said.

Madubuike described the Igbo language as the ‘’soul of the culture of Ndigbo,’’ adding that the disappearance of the language would mean the ultimate death of the culture.

The authorities of Bayero University Kano (BUK) has directed students of the institution to return to school on Wednesday, Jan. 1

Alhaji Luqman Owolewa, the Chairman of Irepodun Local Government Council in Kwara, on Sunday, said the council discovered 339 “ghost workers’’ on its monthly pay roll.