ABUJA—The Federal government has declared its readiness to complete all the 3299 constituency projects contained in the 2013 budget.

Trustfund Pensions Plc, has concluded plans to move into the informal sector of the economy to bring the vast workers into its fold as soon as soon as National Pension Commission (PenCom) releases the guidelines for informal sector workers’ participation in the Contributory Pension Scheme.

Minister of External Affairs, Professor Viola Onwuliri, has challenged Imo State governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha, to fully account for all the monies from the federation account that accrued to the state for nearly three years.

Dr Segun Ajiboye, the Chairman, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Ibadan chapter, has described the payment of lecturers’ five-month salary arrears by the Federal Government as encouraging.

The All Progressive Congress (APC) has hailed Yobe State Gov. Ibrahim Geidam as well as the entire people of the state for the peaceful and hitch-free conduct of the state’s local government election on Dec. 28th 2013.

Hackers broke into Snapchat, the hugely popular mobile app, accessing the phone numbers and usernames of 4.6 million users and publishing them online, tech news website TechCrunch has announced.

Malaysian Islamic authorities on Thursday seized hundreds of Bibles from a Christian group and questioned two of its officers, one of them said, amid tensions over the use of the word “Allah”.

The Italian navy has rescued 233 mostly African migrants from a boat in Mediterranean waters south of Sicily as the immigration crisis that killed hundreds in shipwrecks in 2013 showed no signs of letting up in the new year.

US actor James Avery, most famous as Uncle Phil in hit 1990s sitcom “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” died on New Year’s Eve aged 68, his publicist said Wednesday.

The Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) says it has not shelved its proposed plans to go on strike over the planned sale of the country’s refineries.

A statement from the President of NUPENG, Igwe Achese, on Wednesday in Lagos, said the union’s position was still that the decision to privatise the four refineries was hastily taken.

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday denied the rumours making the rounds that over 1, 200 of its members, including its executives had defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna.

The Chairman of the party in Kaduna North local government area, Alhaji Abdullahi Babawo disclosed this when he paid a New Year visit to the NUJ secretariat in Kaduna.

The expedition leader said on Thursday a Chinese helicopter had reached Russian ship stranded in Antarctica ice for nine days and started picking up 52 passengers who spent Christmas and New Year trapped in ice. The helicopter from the Chinese icebreaker Snow Dragon would take all the passengers from the ice-bound Akademik Shokalskiy and transfer them to an […]

The Ogun State government said, yesterday, that it had uncovered three fake orphanages in different parts of the state and handed their promoters to the law enforcement agencies for prosecution in accordance with the law.

The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, may invite former President Olusegun Obasanjo to shed more light on the allegation that his godson, President Goodluck Jonathan, was training no fewer than 1,000 snipers with a view to using them to perpetuate himself in power.

CELEBRATIONS of the new year turned sour for Assistant Sales Representatives of the Nation Newspapers in Ibadan, and his colleague who works for ThisDay Newspaper as they were involved in a fatal accident.