As primary and secondary schools in Plateau State set to resume on the 22nd September, 2014, the State Government plans to train over 8,000 Primary and Secondary School teachers in both public and private schools on prevention, control and containment of the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD.

TO have political power is to guarantee the empowerment of the people for leadership position. Certainly, we failed to use it to train others within and outside the region to acquire and profitably use political power for holistic development of the entire country. We should have used our political power to identify, recruit and empower the powerless Nigerians in any part of the Country for political leadership.

The National Ex-officio of Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, Alhaji Kolawole Musapha, has described the purported inauguration of the western zone executive of the association in ilorin by factional members of the association as illegal.

South Africa’s president announced Tuesday that 67 of his compatriots were among scores of worshippers killed in the collapse of a popular and controversial Nigerian megachurch.

The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) on Tuesday shared N611.77 billion to the Federal, states and local governments for the month of August. Among the shared money is the N10 billion refunded to the federation account by Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.

Real Madrid put their La Liga woes behind them to get their defence of the Champions League off to a flying start with a 5-1 hammering of Basel on Tuesday

European Champions League group stage results on Tuesday

The President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr Augustine Alegeh, on Tuesday said that the association would review its constitution to allow for e-voting system for future elections.

THERE was commotion in Enugu yesterday as agents of the State Waste Management Authority, ESWAMA, and officials of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, engaged themselves in a free-for-all over alleged refusal of the latter to pay sanitation levy.

he little percentage assigned to the capital component of the nation’s yearly budget has been linked to the wide gap between a few rich individuals and the poor masses.

TWO groups, Tunde Tejuoso Tejman, TTT, and Agege Youths, have called on Lagos Commissioner for Transportation, Kayode Opeifa to contest for Lagos State governorship election under the All Progressives Congress, APC, platform.

Some entertainment industry stakeholders on Tuesday applauded Nigerian artistes for promoting local music and the entertainment industry in general across the world through their works.

The Confederation of African Football has denied claims by the Guinea Football Federation that the temporary ban on games in the Ebola-hit country has been lifted.

WHEN Britain and its allies supported Nigeria to concede the Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon based on the 1914 Ango-German treaty, one would expected that it would easily consent to the demands by the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) for an independent Scotland

BAUCHI state government has donated over 10,000 assorted food items to scores of physically challenged persons in the state as part of efforts to alleviate their sufferings.