The police in Kano on Monday dispelled rumours that the command had defused a bomb at the Audu Bako Secretariat in Kano metropolis, describing it as unfounded.

The surging price of Microsoft shares returned US tech tycoon Bill Gates back to the top of Forbes’s world’s billionaires list, with his $76 billion beating out Mexico’s Carlos Slim’s $72 billion.

Olympiakos striker Michael Olaitan is “stable” in a Greek hospital after collapsing during the first half of a 3-0 defeat by Athens rivals Panathinaikos.

The House of Representatives Committee on Sports have criticized the colour of the recently unveiled Nigeria national team jersey and threatened to carry out a probe to ascertain why the traditional colours were not selected by the manufacturers.

In efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, for 2015, the Japanese government and two non-governmental organisations, NGOs, yesterday, signed a grant of N34 million for the provision of two projects for Agyana and Pagada communities in Abaji and Gwagwalada local government areas in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.

Seven people were killed on Sunday when Boko Haram militants launched an assault in northern Cameroon, a Cameroonian security source said.

A telecommunication firm, Airtel Nigeria, has urged the Court of Appeal in Lagos to stay execution of a Garnishee Order Nisi made against it by a Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja

The immediate past deputy governor of Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Nsima Ekere, has predicted that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will sweep the polls and retain control of the state in the 2015 general elections

Pastor Francis Irabor, founder of a new generation church, Great Calling Ministry, GCM, escaped death from a group of armed men, suspected to be Boko Haram insurgents, on his way home after last Sunday service, in Abuja

Members of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, JUSUN, have concluded plans to embark on a three-day warning strike, from March 12 to March 14, over the refusal of both federal and state governments to comply with the Federal High Court, Abuja’s order on the union’s financial autonomY

Alhaji Inuwa Abdulkadir, the Interim Chairman, All Progressives Congress (APC), in Sokoto State, said on Monday the party had registered 308,000 eligible members.

The ECOWAS Commission on Monday condemned the “unprovoked attack by a terrorism armed group on a Federal Government College in Yobe’’.

AT the recent pan-Niger Delta conference held in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, leaders of the region drummed up support for the Federal Government’s National Conference, saying it is an ample opportunity for the region to address issues of environmental pollution, neglect and marginalization.

The Chairman, Solid Minerals Development Fund, Mr. Linus Adie, in this interview with GABRIEL EWEPU, explained that the Fund will facilitate the expected development of the mining sector and turn it into a money spinner in no distant time.

The Northern States Governors’ Forum has resolved to abolish payment of fees in secondary schools in the region in a bid to boost enrolment of students.