Wema Bank has sustained its return to profitability in 2013 by recording profit before tax of N590 million in the first quarter of 2014.

AHEAD of the 2015 general elections, Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriations, Senator Ahmed Maccido, has said that the alleged aspiration of Governor Magatarkada Wammako of Sokoto State to contest Sokoto North senatorial ticket against him was not a threat.

Facebook profits nearly tripled in the first quarter to $642 million on a 72 percent surge in revenues, helped by strong gains in mobile users and mobile advertising.

Premier League leaders Liverpool on Wednesday published plans for the redevelopment of their Anfield home that would raise the stadium’s capacity from 45,276 to around 54,000.

THE departure of Princess Stella Oduah as the Aviation Minister brings to a screeching halt one of the most controversial careers in Nigerian public service.

Apple on Wednesday said that it plans to buy back an additional $30 billion worth of shares and split its stock.

Hundreds of Muslims, among the last remaining in the Central African Republic’s capital after months of brutal sectarian violence, are trapped in a slum desperately hoping to be saved from militia attacks.

A 31-year-old conductor, Saheed Yekinni, who allegedly stole two handsets belonging to a deceased man, was Wednesday arraigned before an Ikeja magistrate’s court.

VICTOR Moses has underlined his desire to fight for a first-team place at Chelsea next season when his loan spell at Liverpool comes to an end.

“The introduction of a tariff system driven by market forces ignored the fact that Nigeria’s economy is import dependent and that there would always be of fluctuation of prices arising from the cost of sourcing foreign exchange and other charges that were paid at the port of entry, bribes and other levies which the electricity generation and distribution companies are made to pay before they come up with the final product”.

Gunmen killed at least 17 people in an attack on a village in eastern Nigeria where scores of people have died in ethnic violence in recent weeks, police said Wednesday.

Gov. Babangida Aliyu of Niger, on Wednesday, said the state government would establish a Christian and an Islamic centre in Minna to ensure peaceful co-existence among the people.

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan commends General Muhammadu Buhari for his very statesman-like views on terrorism and insecurity in Nigeria as expressed in his article which was published by the media over the past two days.

In May 1999 when General Olusegun Obasanjo assumed office, the power supply system in the country was in a very terrible state of disrepair and neglect. The generation availability was down to 1,600MW from the installed capacity of 5,876MW.

Nigerian author, Ben Okri, will receive an honorary doctorate at the University of Pretoria’s Autumn Graduation Ceremony in South Africa on Friday, the university said.