Osogbo High Court has sentenced Babatunde Ogunjobi, 33, and Abdulgafar Yusuf, 39, to 10 and seven years imprisonment respectively for stealing Gov. Rauf Aregbesola’s cell phone and duping with it.

Gov. Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara on Friday in Ilorin called on politicians and their supporters in the state to avoid acts capable of disrupting the peace during the visit of President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday.

The College of Education, Hong, in Adamawa, was shut on Friday and students directed to go home following alleged threat by members of the Boko Haram sect to attack the school.

Abuja – The National Council on Privatisation (NCP) said on Friday that 42 bidders were shortlisted to acquire 80 per cent shares of each of the 10 power plants of the Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC).

Ile-Ife – The West Africa University Games (WAUG) on Friday said that the Republic of Benin has bid to host the 2015 edition of the Game

When the news broke that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Africa’s biggest oil producer, is facing questions about where billions of dollars in oil money is going amid suspicions of fraud and it being siphoned among other things, the first thing that came to my mind was how my own family missed out on the whole thing.

A 4-year old boy, Effiong Edet has been abducted at the Ekorinim axis of Calabar, the Cross River State Capital by the hoodlums who raided the community in an Audi car with a concealed car registration number.

The massive welcome party and the applause that greeted the conclusion of the privatisation exercise of the Power Holding Company Nigeria, PHCN had inspired confidence with the belief that very soon persistent power outages and irregular supply would be a thing of the past.

DESPITE the assurances by the former Minister of the Niger Delta Affairs, Godsday Orubebe that the East West Road would be completed and commissioned by the end of this year, the Supervising Minister of the ministry, Mr. Dairus Ishaku has said that the completion of the road by the end of 2014 would be a mirage.

THE Anambra State governorship election petition tribunal sitting in Awka yesterday agreed with Dr. Onyechi Ikpeazu, SAN, council to the governor –elect, Chief Willie Obiano of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA that many paragraphs in the petition filed by Senator Chris Ngige, the governorship candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, in last year’s election were not issues to be determined by the election petition tribunal.

The Federal Government is to spend a total of N35.830 billion for the reintegration of ex-militants enlisted in the Presidential Amnesty Programme in 2014.

President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday decorated seven living former Nigerian Heads of State and Presidents with the centenary awards.

Three years ago, Nigerians heaved a sigh of relief when the pre-paid meter was introduced. They thought that at last, the epileptic system of power supply and outrageous billing system since the take-over of PHCN by the private investors will be a thing of the past.

The media outlets have been full of the news…on the television, in the radio and newspaper. The CBN Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has been suspended.

The Anambra State government says it has attracted non oil direct foreign investment of over N30 billion for the first quarter of this year.