CHAIRMAN Joint Committee on Pension Act Amendment Bill, Senator Aloysius Etok has said that the committee would not recommend anybody that was involved in any failed financial institution in the country in its consideration for the position of Director-General of National Pension Commission, PENCOM.

Six Nigerian top cyclists will today in Abidjan join over 300 cyclists from other parts of Africa for the Tour de la reconciliation beginning today September 27th and end November 6th..2013: The cyclists, all male, left Lagos on Thursday by road with three officials to participate in the 10-day road race to prepare towards ECWAS Cycling tour holding in November.

With the mindless quest for profit in the Nigerian retail market, the production and sale of unbranded consumables has become the order of the day. Undiscerning consumers often fall victim to the antics of unscrupulous manufacturers, consuming products which might turn out toxic in the long run. Small wonder Food Science experts recently disclosed that about 200,000 Nigerians die of food poisoning yearly; while many others are at risk of doing so before long.

Sharks winger, Anthony Okemmiri has said his side can afford the luxury to dream of a continental ticket in the ongoing Glo Premier League season.

Over 67,000 People Living with HIV/AIDS, PLWHAS are currently receiving free treatment and care in designated centers established by the Benue state government.

It is not in doubt that our indige-nous languages are going into extinction as a result of our attitude to our native languages. We despise it, undervalue it and repudiate it as if it was criminal to communicate in our mother dialect.

Nigerian Islamist group Ansaru on Friday released a video of a French national kidnapped in December, the SITE jihadi tracking website said.

The controversial abortion law enacted last year by Imo State House of Assembly, part of which prohibits violence against persons, has been repealed by the lawmakers.

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Friday discovered a 600-acre hemp farm at Ode-Ekiti in the Gbonyin Local Government Area of Ekiti.

From the Table Bay Hotel, we took off for Stellenbosch home to many of the wineries. On the outskirt of this town, lies the famous Die Bergkelder- Fleur du Cap founded in 1967.

San Francisco – A United Airlines flight made an emergency landing in Boise, Idaho after its pilot suffered a mid-air heart attack from which he later died, an Airline spokesperson said on Friday. United flight 1603 was en-route from Houston, Texas to Seattle, Washington when the incident occurred. The Boeing 737 landed safely in Boise […]

IT was a sad day Friday in Nyanya, a satellite town and a suburb in the nation’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja when a storey building in one of the FCT owned Government Secondary School, GSS collapsed with eight students critically injured.

The Minister of Sports, Bolaji Abdullahi, on Friday in Ilorin charged Nigerian youths to fully utilise sports’ advantages to develop themselves physically and economically.

Hull City’s Sone Aluko is aiming to establish himself in the Premier League and earn a Nigeria recall. The former England youth international switched allegiances four years ago and made his Super Eagles debut in 2009.

Pastor Itua Ighodalo is the Senior Pastor of Lagos-based Trinity House, and an accomplished chartered accountant working as a managing partner in SIAO, an accounting, auditing, and financial advisory firm. In this chat with Ebele Orakpo, he speaks on the Church’s annual Honour Nigeria Awards programme scheduled for October 6, 2013. Alluding to the Bible passage that says that three-fold cord is not easily broken, he says the Church must unite for more impact on society, adding that Trinity House has various programmes aimed at putting Church at the forefront of society. Excerpts: