China on Wednesday reiterated that the Crimean issue should be resolved politically, urging all parties concerned to refrain from raising tensions.

Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Interim National Publicity Secretary, All Progressives Congress (APC), on Tuesday said the party would hold its National Convention on May 24, 2014.

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) said on Tuesday that Nigeria oil reserves had dropped from 40 billion to 35 billion barrels.

Mr Gossy Ukanwoke, Founder, Beni American University and Student Circle, on Tuesday in Abuja said only the use of technology could successfully drive the intervention in Nigeria’s education problems.

outh Africa’s public ombudsman Wednesday said that non-security upgrades at President Jacob Zuma’s private residence which cost the taxpayer $20 million were unlawful and he must repay part of the costs.

OUTRAGE is raging against the death of 19, among them four pregnant women, at the Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS, recruitment exercise. Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, in reaction to calls for his resignation, said he needed to stick around to fix the problem. Nigerians seem aghast at the disregard for life. Why the hypocrisy?

The National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) has verified and approved 66 movies for viewing for the month of February, 2014, a statement said in Abuja on Tuesday.

President Goodluck Jonathan Wednesday, directed the immediate cancellation of the immigration recruitment exercise that led to the death of more than twenty applicants and scores of others injured.

Sports Minister Tamuno Danagogo on Tuesday in Abuja said he would rather study what he met on ground and improve upon it than try to change what was on ground.

Turkey’s national carrier denied on Wednesday allegations of arms shipments to unknown groups in Nigeria, which has been ravaged by violence between the army and Islamist militants.

NATIONAL leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP yesterday alleged that acts of terrorism being perpetuated by members of Boko Haram in some parts of the country where thousands have been killed and property worth millions destroyed were being sponsored to discredit and give President Goodluck Jonathan a negative image.

Two of the five corpses that were brought in on Saturday to the Braithwait Memorial hospital from the venue of the screening exercise conducted by the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, at the Liberation stadium, Port Harcourt haver been identified by relatives.

THE leaders of the North, or those who say that they are leaders of the vast North, that supposedly includes the Igala, Tiv, Idoma, Nupe, Gbagyi, etc, gathered recently in Kano and indulged in what can best be described as an exercise in deception all in a desperate attempt to get power to return to a region which has been balkanised because of the natural tendency of some people to think that power belongs to them.

This is not a recent video, but it’s essence is immortal. Kechi Okwuchi was one of the 61 student of Loyola Jesuit College that boarded the ill-fated Sosoliso flight 1145 that crashed on December 10, 2005, she survived along side Miss Bunmi Amusan now Mrs Adams but her life has not been the same.

THE Senate will Thursday, commence the screening of Mr. Godwin Emefiele for appointment as Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria,CBN