Lagos—An expert in explosives and weapons, Mr Biedomo Iguniwei, yesterday, said the collapsed building of Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, was caused by a high energy infrasonic weapon.

Global demand for coal over the next five years will continue marching higher, breaking the 9-billion-tonne level by 2019, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in its annual Medium-Term Coal Market Report just released.

NO fewer than 20 people lost their lives with 25 others sustaining various degrees of injuries in yesterday’s bomb blast at Dukku motor park in Gombe.

Growth in the Nigerian oil and gas industry will remain elusive over the next couple of years, unless issues of poor financial reporting, insufficient audits and inadequate information are addressed.

The Nigerian Association of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Marketers, NALPGAM, has warned that the growing indiscriminate siting of gas facilities in different parts of the country poses a great danger to the citizenry.

ABEOKUTA—An Abeokuta based socio-political organization, the Egba Descendants Union, EDU, has praised the senatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP for Ogun Central district, Dr. Abisola Sodipo-Clark for her insistence on running an issue-based campaign leading up to the general elections next year.

LAGOS—THE South West chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Makunjola Ogundipe has said that the zone remains better off under the President Goodluck Jonathan administration.

President Goodluck Jonathan has called on Nigerian universities to be committed to, and embark on, relevant research that will solve the immediate technological, economic, social, educational and health needs of the country.

By Chioma Obinna, Favour Nnabugwu & Victoria Ojeme Months after agitation  for the assent of the Revised National Health Bill trailed it’s passage by the Senate, healthcare professionals have commended President Goodluck Jonathan for signed the much awaited Bill into law. However, they urged the Federal government to ensure quick implementation of the Act. The […]

Nigeria Professional Football League champions Kano Pillars will face Malaika of South Sudan in the 2015 Caf Champions League preliminary round with the country’s second representative Enyimba paired against Buffles du Borgou FC of Benin Republic.

Ghana’s Kasapreko Company has suspended its planned $50 million (about N8.2 billion) investment in Nigeria due to adulteration of its product, Alomo bitters.

Standards Organisation of Nigeria has described its destruction of fake Century brand of stabilizers and other items valued at N5.5 billion in 2014 as economic loss to the country.

A group, Delta Ijaw Political Forum, DIPF, in Delta State, yesterday, urged the Ijaw national leader, Chief Edwin Clark, Senator James Manager and former militant leader, Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, to harmonise their differences on the choice of running mate to People’s Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa.

The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kaduna State yesterday announced that Senator Caleb Zagi, who represented Southern Kaduna Senatorial District from 2007 to 2011 on the platform of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has formally defected to the party.

Influential Borno State power broker, Senator Ali Sheriff has been anointed as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP for the Borno Central Senatorial District setting the stage for a rematch with Senator Ahmed Zanna who defeated him in 2011 as the candidate of the PDP