The Bank of Industry and other local investors have injected N1.56 billion on two rice mills and farms promoted by the former Minister of Industry/ President Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, Engr. Charles Ugwuh.

The number of people dying from malaria has almost halved since 2000, although progress in west Africa risks being reversed by the Ebola outbreak, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.

President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday paid glowing tributes to men and women of the nation’s Armed Forces for their courage and sacrifices in the war against insurgency in parts of the country.

Three parallel primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, are going on in Enugu State today.

Former Minister of State for Defence and People’s Democratic Party (PDP), aspirant in Lagos, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro has refuted claims that he had been persuaded to withdraw from the gubernatorial race come 2015 stressing in nobody can persuade him to step down.

President Goodluck Jonathan announced on Monday in Abuja that Nigeria’s armed forces would intensify their ongoing operations against insurgents in the North-East, ahead of the 2015 general elections.

A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday adjourned to Feb. 23, 2015, the trial of a former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, charged with money laundering.

By Dapo Akinrefon THERE was pandemonium at the Yard 158 event centre on Oregun road, venue of the governorship primaries of the PDP in Lagos State as political thugs loyal to aspirants clashed. Policemen shot canisters into the air to disperse the warring groups, while sniffer dogs were unleashed to bring the situation under control. […]

Jumia Nigeria in partnership with ‘1 Child 1 Book’ Foundation has launched a Corporate Social Responsibility initiative to help improve the literacy rate of thousands of children in Nigeria, by providing books every month to schools across the country.

Flags were lowered at Kabul airport Monday as the US-led NATO force in Afghanistan held a ceremony to mark the closure of its combat command centre after 13 years of fighting the Taliban.

A coalition of Kano-based Civil Rights Groups have protested the planned release of the Russian Cargo plane laden with munitions impounded by the Military authorities Saturday morning st the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport.

A government crackdown on Morsi supporters since the army ousted him has resulted in at least 1,400 people dead and thousands jailed.

Several leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, including Morsi, are themselves on trial in cases which carry the death penalty if convicted.

MR Nyesom Wike, a former local government chairman, erstwhile chief of staff to Governor Chibuike Amaechi and until recently, minister of state for education has won the Rivers state governorship ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party.

Angry protesters in California — some vandalizing, looting and clashing with police — gathered for a second night Monday to condemn recent killings of black suspects by white officers.

A 73-year-old man, Mubasiru Abiola, on Monday appeared before an Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court for alleged fraud for selling one acre of land to two persons.