The Surveyor-General of the Federation, Prof. Peter Nwilo, said on Monday that less than three per cent of Nigerians who owned land had Certificate of Occupancy (C of O).

The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Dr. Stephen Oru, in Abuja on Tuesday reiterated the ministry’s commitment to empower youths in the Niger Delta region.

The Surveyor-General of the Federation, Prof. Peter Nwilo, said on Monday that the Federal Government needed to provide N10 billion annually for some years to ensure effective mapping of the country.

The PDP elders’ caucus in Benue South West Senatorial zone has excluded former Niger Delta minster Sam Odeh and Mr Harris Ogbole from contesting the governorship primaries of the party.

From Guinea’s forests to Madrid, here are key dates in the Ebola epidemic, the worst to date with more than 3,400 deaths, as the infection spreads outside of Africa.

Spain was investigating Tuesday how a nurse in Madrid could have become infected with Ebola, sparking fears of the first outbreak outside Africa.,

Small knots of pro-democracy demonstrators remained on Hong Kong’s streets Tuesday after protest leaders agreed to talks with the government and some students returned to school to study for exams

NATIONAL Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, yesterday said the party’s presidential candidate could emerge from the South and not solely from the North as was being speculated.

The Primate, Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), the Most Revd Nicholas Okoh has attributed the slow pace of the national development at the nation’s 54th Independence Anniversary to self-inflicting problems.