The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) has shut down seven companies for failing to remit about N58.8 million personal income taxes of workers to government.

The Special Adviser to the President on Political Affairs, Alhaji Ahmed Gulak has challenged the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, and the media community to focus on critical issues that will determine the agenda for the 2015 general elections rather than concentrate on bashing President Goodluck Jonathan and threatening mayhem, if the election results did not favour them.

Supporters of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Adamawa, on Thursday commended the peaceful resolution of the leadership crisis that rocked the party in the state.

Bloemfontein (South Africa) – A top official of the Nigerian Union in South Africa on Thursday said the community was proud of the Super Eagles, in spite of their 1-4 defeat by the Black Stars of Ghana. The union’s President Ikechukwu Anyaene told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Bloemfontein that the players performed creditably […]

“We purposely stretched the match into penalty shootout because we knew that Nigeria did not know how to play penalty,” says Ghanian Coach, Maxwell Konadu.

Coach Maxwell Konadu of Ghana says Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi, is still the best coach in Africa.

Chief Magistrate, Mrs. Oshodi-Makanju, of an Ikeja Magistrate Court has heard how two former staff of the defunct Intercontinental Bank Plc (now Access Bank Plc) allegedly stole N28.81 million belonging to the bank.

The killing of a dog belonging to a hunter has caused a violent clash between two communities in Ilorin, the Kwara Stae capital, yesterday.

The National Chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, has pledged that the party’s consultative forum will henceforth be a regular feature.

Palpable confusion reigned in Owerri, yesterday, as a father tied his seven children, including his triplet, to a wheel-barrow and was heading to an unknown destination before officials of Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development intervened.

The Enugu State Police have declared one Benneth Nkwocha wanted for allegedly issuing a dud cheque of N4.040 million.

The Federal Government will today release modalities for the convocation of the National Dialogue proposed last October by President Goodluck Jonathan.

HUMAN rights lawyer and Pan-African elderstate man, Dr. Tunji Braithwaite, has expressed fear over the impending National Conference, saying that it is strewn with pitfalls on a nature that could throw the country into a calamitous depth that might take future generations another 100 years from which to climb out.

Nigerians demonstrated their disdain for same-sex relationships last week when an angry mob almost lynched seven suspected homosexuals who were brought for trial before Sharia Court 4 in Anguwan Jaki, Bauchi State.

The Federal Ministry of Environment has developed a draft action plan for the phasing out of light weight non-biodegradable plastics in the country, a top official of the ministry, said, yesterday.