After holding on for dear life and making it to the Finale, Nigeria’s hopes of snatching the Chase crown went up in flames this evening, when Beverly and Melvin became the first two Chasemates in the Top 5 to be booted out.

Pretty Aisha was 14 years old when she was escorted to her husband, Abdullahi close to three decades ago. Before her marriage on that fateful first day in July, her husband, Abdullahi, had told the neighbours he was taking a wife and that his wife would be brought to him from Kano his home state.

The Federal Government has targeted the production of 500,000 metric tonnes of Cocoa annually, from 2015. Mr. Akinwumi Adesina, Minister of Agriculture, disclosed this in a paper entitled: “Agriculture: The Value Chain Roadmap” on Friday at the 9th All Nigerian Editors Conference with the theme “Nigeria Beyond Oil: Role of the Editor” in Asaba, Delta.

President Goodluck Jonathan has reaffirmed his administration’s determination to do all within its powers to facilitate and encourage the rapid diversification of Nigeria’s economy.

ON April 14, 2007, Andy Uba won the Anambra State governorship election. It was a landslide victory for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

The Niger Ministry of Health has ordered the closure of 20 private hospitals in the state for operating illegally and without following proper medical procedures.

FOLLOWING the alleged killing of the leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau by the Joint Military Task Force, JTF, in the forest of Sambisa, Borno State, General Overseer, Abuja Breakthrough Chapel, Bishop Ben Oruma said he was not excited over the death of the sect’s leader.

Governor Danbaba Suntai of Taraba on Sunday arrived in Abuja after 10 months of medical treatment abroad after being involved in a plane crash on Oct. 25, 2012.

Pope Francis appealed Sunday to the international community to help find a solution to the civil war in Syria while denouncing a “proliferation in massacres and atrocities” there.