By JONAH NWOKPOKU The Central Bank of Nigeria,CBN and CBO Capital have called for more investments in private equity and venture capital. They made the call at the just concluded third annual investors’ conference organised by CBO capital in Lagos. They said that more investments in private equity and venture capital would make more funds […]

By Franklin Alli Standards Organisation of Nigeria, SON, has removed five million bad tyres from circulation in order to curb accidents on the highway, said its Director General, Dr. Joseph Odumodu. He said that the bad tyres were removed recently from warehouses at Ladipo auto spare parts market in Mushin area of the state by […]

BY OKEY NDIRIBE, LAWANI MIKAIRU & DANIEL ETEGHE ABUJA— Thousands of Abuja-bound travellers were, yesterday, stranded at airports across the country, following an incident involving a Saudi Arabian cargo plane on the runway of Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, which led to closure of the facility. The temporary closure of the airport, to make way for […]

University lecturers, under the auspices of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, yesterday, denied any knowledge of the N200 billion said to have been deposited at the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, by Federal Government, as a way of resolving the six months old strike which had paralysed academic activities in the nation’s universities.

African champions, the Super Eagles will today know the opponents they will face in the group stage of the World Cup when the draw for the 2014 football spectacle is held today in Brazil.

World football chief Sepp Blatter described Nelson Mandela as one of the “greatest humanists of our time” on Thursday after the former South African president passed away.

She’s mostly  mistaken for the first ever Black-American fashion model, actress and singer to win Miss America beauty pageant in 1983, because they both share the same name ‘Vanessa Williams’,but while  this Vanessa William isn’t the one that sang the Pochohontas’s ‘Colours of the Wind’ and appeared  in films such as ‘Shaft’, ‘Eraser,” Our Vanessa Williams did feature  in Wesley Snipes’ ‘New Jack City’, ‘Sarafina’,and TV series like ‘Soulfood’ and ‘Melrose Place’.

World leaders have mourned the death of former president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela describing him as one of the greatest men that lived in the 20th century.

President Goodluck Jonathan has  mourned the loss of one of history’s “greatest liberators” in a condolence message to South Africa on Thursday after the death of Nelson Mandela.

History will be made in Lagos next week when the Christian Police Fellowship of Nigeria, CPFN, Lagos State, Lord of Lords chapel, will kick off its end-of-year programme at the command headquarters in Ikeja. The programme tagged: ‘My Testimony Is A Must’ will start from December 9 and end on the 13th with Primate Jatto ministering.

Super Eagles may have disappointed at their last two FIFA World Cups but expectations are high of a better showing in Brazil next year, irrespective of the first-round group they are drawn in on Friday.

The Confederation of African Football (CAF)yesterday unveiled the top ten nominees for the 2013 Glo-CAF Awards African Footballer of the Year.

s the Yuletide season approaches, Port Harcourt, the capital city of Rivers State beckons with bustles of preparation for the most glamorous and entertaining carnival, CARNIRIV 2013 dubbed ‘The Green World Edition’.

African champions, the Super Eagles will pocket a princely sum of $35m if they win the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.

Benin Electricity Distribution Company, BEDC, has disconnected electricity supply to Benin Airport over unpaid accumulated bills, even as a Benin- based legal practitioner, Olayiwola Afolabi, petitioned the Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Oduah, over the deplorable condition of the airport runway, claiming that the lives of passengers were at risk whenever planes were landing.