Former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has commissioned a new 60-bed Specialist Hospital, built by the Governor Adams Oshiomhole government, in Ewohinmi, Esan South East Local Government area of Edo State, complete with state-of-the-art equipment, 3-bedroom doctors’ quarters and 2-bedroom Nurses’ quarters.

Pakistan on Sunday executed four more militants after ending a six-year moratorium on the death penalty following a Taliban school attack that killed 149 people, officials said.

The existence of illegal security outfits in the country is a threat to national security, Mr Ime White, Public Relations Officer, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Akwa Ibom Command, has said.

The PDP in Plateau has constituted machinery to reconcile aggrieved members of the party ahead of the 2015 general elections, Sen. Gyang Pwajok the party’s governorship candidate, has said.

A delegation of small and medium-sized business concerns comprising members of the Nigerian-German Business Association (NGBA) will visit Germany in February next year to explore opportunities for partnerships with German businesses

A teenager was accidentally killed during a Saudi raid against “terrorists” in a town populated by minority Shiites, residents of the area said on Sunday.

Warri (Delta), Dec. 21, 2014 (NAN) Few days to Christmas, the price of rice, vegetable oil and spices have remained stable in Warri, Delta, a survey conducted by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) has shown.

Dr Doyin Okupe is the Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to President Goodluck Jonathan. Okupe, who was a guest at Vanguard corporate headquarters in Lagos, bares his mind on burning national issues including the decision by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to field General Muhammudu Buhari as its presidential standard bearer in 2015

An Afghan journalist who was seriously injured during a suicide attack on a French cultural centre died of his wounds in hospital on Sunday, officials said.

Chief Victor Umeh, National Chairman of All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), was among the candidates for the 2015 polls in Anambra, who was presented with the party’s flag on Saturday in Awka.

President Goodluck Jonathan has appealed to aspirants of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who lost at the primaries to remain in party in the interest of democracy.

Information technology is embraced virtually in every aspect of human endeavors. No serious minded organizations can escape its positive effects.

“Once to everyman and nation comes the moment to decide; in the strife between truth with falsehood, for the good or the evil side.”

PEOPLE displaced by insurgency in some parts of the country, at the weekend, called on government at all levels to look beyond the provision of food for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the country, while recounting their ordeal.

Agriculture Minister, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, has risen in defence of the achievements of his ministry, saying they are unassailable.