The Magazines and Newspapers Distributors’ Association of Nigeria, MANDAN, Kwara State branch has given Vanguard Media Limited and five others newspapers award of excellence.

The Comptroller of Prisons in Taraba State, Alhaji Isa Bambul has asked the Federal Government to relocate the Jalingo Prisons currently located in the middle of the state capital following the incessant attacks on prisons in the Northeast part of the country.

The Zamfara State Government said, yesterday, it approved the release of N420 million as compensation for villagers where the new Federal University would be established in the state.

Blue Diamond Freights, a freight company based in Guangzhou, China, has denied giving any authorisation letter to any company for the production of WHAL clippers.

The official match ball for the 2014 Fifa World Cup in Brazil has been revealed.

The Plateau State Government has spent N12 billion to improve its Agricultural Services and Training Centres, ASTCs, according to Mr Steven Barko, the state Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources.

The British High Commission in Nigeria on Wednesday announced a new system of visa application whereby U.K. visa would be paid for online in U.S. dollars.

Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, Wednesday, ordered Charles Okah, who is a younger brother to ex-leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, Henry, be subjected to a psychiatric test.

Jimmy Adeniyi, Head of Coaching and Training Department at the National Institute of Sports (NISports), says Stephen Keshi has shown the ability to take the Super Eagles to higher heights.

A man accused of hacking a soldier to death on a London street told police he was a “soldier of Allah” fighting a war against Britain but that the killing brought him little joy, a court heard Wednesday.

Lending by commercial banks in the country to the agricultural sector has increased from N3 billion to N20 billion in 2013, said Dr. Kingsley Moghalu, the Deputy Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. Moghalu disclosed this while delivering a keynote address at the third CBO Capital Investors’ Conference, held in Lagos.

The Federal Government yesterday disclosed that the Abuja Centenary City project conceived to mark Nigeria’s centenary celebration in January 2014 would attract direct foreign investment to the tune of N3 trillion to the country.

Mrs Joy Ifijeh, the widow who was rebuked by Governor Adams Oshiomhole for blocking the road with her goods, says she snubbed the offer of N250,000 by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) because she was satisfied with the apology and offer of a job and N2m by the Governor

A cross section of residents of Maiduguri on Wednesday expressed happiness over the restoration of GSM services in the state.

The Federal government Wednesday took the initiative to decongest existing ports in the country as it approved a $1.35billion contract for the construction of a new Deep Sea Port in Lekki- Lagos State.
Minister of transport Senator Idris Umar who briefed state house correspondents after the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting said the project which is expected to be completed within the next four years is to constructed under a public private partnership PP arrangement on a concession basis for a period of 45 years after which it will revert to the federal government.