Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) has slammed N150,000 fine on Gombe Bulls for their supporters’ invasion of the court in their Match 32 against Mark Mentors of Abuja.

The United Nations’ Special Envoy on Education, Mr Gordon Brown, on Friday in Abuja lauded the Nigerian Government’s zero tolerance for terrorist groups.

President Goodluck Jonathan said on Friday that the late former President-General of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Amb. Ralph Uwechue, served the nation in the defence of her unity, peace and stability.

Gunmen on Friday attacked Kano-Kambarawa Village in Wukari Local Government Area of Taraba and killed two persons.

Minister Of Information, Mr Labaran Maku said on Friday that Federal Government will investigate the Amnesty International report which indicated that the Nigeria’s military had advance warning of an attack on the town of Chibok where some 270 girls were kidnapped but failed to act.

President Goodluck Jonathan says he will “not sleep” or rest on his oars until the over 200 abducted girls in Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno, are rescued.

Thursday, May 15, is World Family Day, a global initiative by the United Nations General Assembly to draw attention to the various problems facing the family. While I commend UN for this initiative, conservatives and religious institutions will continue to view the UN with suspicion because of its stand on the family as an “institution with no relatively fixed definition.”

US experts arriving in Nigeria to help hunt for more than 200 abducted schoolgirls face a “challenging” task and it’s too early to say if they can find them, officials warned Friday.

The President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote said that nine million tonnes of cement have been released into the market to stem the escalating cost of the product.

With #BringBackOurGirls we have come to a turning point in our contest against terrorism in Nigeria. It is a critical moment for us; the war will not be won without us winning this battle. In short if one is not part of the solution, they become part of the problem.

Madam Annkio Briggs is an environmental activist from the Niger-Delta region of Nigeria. She is a federal government delegate and member, Committee on Devolution of Power in the ongoing national conference in Abuja.

DSP Ngozi Braide, the Public Relations Officer of Lagos State Police Command, has said that the rumour about activities of Boko Haram members in some parts of the state on Friday was false.

Oscar Pistorius has sold the upmarket Pretoria home where he shot dead his girlfriend, as legal fees mounted from his lengthy murder trial that continued Friday.

The Nasarawa State Police Command on Friday denied the involvement of women police officers in the protest organised by some women groups in the state against the abduction of schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno

Too many people walk around with their heads bowed down like a bulrush. To them it is as if the whole world is against them. Whatever they do does not seem to prosper.