The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has declared Wale Babalakin, Chairman of Bi-Courtney Highway Services Limited, wanted, urging members of the public to report any sighting of him to the Commission.

The Federal Government has declined the request by the 36 state governors to disburse $1 billion (about N157 billion) from the Excess Crude Account, ECA, in December.

A compound from the South African toothbrush tree inactivates a drug target for tuberculosis in a previously unseen way. Tuberculosis causes more deaths worldwide than any other bacterial disease. At the same time as rates are increasing, resistance strains are emerging due, in part, to non-compliance with the treatment required. Many current drugs are nearly 50 years old and alternatives are needed to the long, demanding treatment schedules.

The International Federation of Women Lawyers, FIDA, Nigeria, has condemned series of reported cases of rape and violence against innocent women in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, allegedly perpetrated by men of the Nigerian Army.

In its bid to delist Kano State from the list of least educated states, the state government has awarded full scholarship to 100 indigent students to study any course of their choice at Bells University of Technology, Ota, Ogun State.

Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal Alex Barde, said the Nigerian Airforce will this morning (Thursday) commence deployment of Nigeria war planes to check the activities of jihad fighters in Mali.

The President-elect of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Yinka Gbadebo has appealed to the government of Ogun State to reconsider its earlier decision to merge the state owned Tai Solarin University of Education, (TASUED), with the state university at Ago-Iwoye.

The House of Representatives Wednesday directed its Committees on Petroleum, Justice, Loans and Debts to investigate an alleged plan by the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation(NNPC) to take a loan of $1.5 billion to settle their debts.

The United States will become almost self-sufficient for its energy needs by 2030, boosted by shale oil and gas output and slowing demand, British energy giant BP forecast on Wednesday.

Early morning fire Wednesday gutted Kwara state polytechnic, Ilorin.
Sensitive documents, several splits air condition and furniture among others were lost to the fire inferno.

AS Senate resumed plenary Wednesday after the break, with a warning to politicians not to over heat the polity ahead of 2015, just as it said that Nigerians must not discuss at anytime, the balkanisation of Nigeria.

Twenty five ships are waiting to discharge petroleum products at the various oil terminals within the Lagos ports, the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has said.

Medical experts have have warned Nigerians on the dangers of using bleaching products.

A Zuba Grade 1 Area Court has acquited a 21-year old sales girl, Charity Samuel, of an alleged theft charge.

A major communal conflict was wednesday averted in Makurdi the Benue state capital, after a sugarcane seller, (names withheld) allegedly stabbed 19 year old Umaru Abdulrahaman his customer to death following an argument.