President Goodluck Jonathan visited the family of the former president of Nigeria, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua in Kastina on Tuesday

The joint meeting for negotiations between the Federal Government, Chief Registrars of states’ judiciary and the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) on Tuesday ended unresolved.

The Flying Eagles on Tuesday in Kaduna stepped up their build-up for this weekend’s Super 6 Tournament in Abuja with a confidence-boosting 6-0 win over NDC Warriors.

The world’s political and business elite gathered for their annual meeting in the glitzy Swiss ski resort of Davos on Wednesday, with the shadow of the Paris attacks and ongoing global conflicts looming large.

The Ogun Police Command says INEC has confirmed its ownership of the ballot boxes that were intercepted by soldiers on the Benin-Sagamu Expressway.

The European Union said in Abuja on Tuesday that it had deployed an Election Observation Mission for the forthcoming general elections in Nigeria.

President Barack Obama on Tuesday declared America has turned the page on years of war and economic hardship, in a populist-tinged State of the Union address that set up the battle to succeed him.

There are numerous examples of old capitals but none was abandoned by the central government, except of course, Nigeria.
On August 7, 1975, the then Head of State, General Murtala Ramat Mohammed (1938-1976) inaugurated a five man panel on the creation of more states in the country. The committee was headed by Justice Ayo Gabriel Irikefe (1922-1996). It was the panel that increased the number of states in Nigeria from twelve (12) to nineteen (19). Justice Irikefe later became the ninth Chief Justice of the Federation between (1985-1987).

Dr. Gani Enahoro, is Vice President, African Veterinary Association, AVA. He is also the Immediate Past President, Nigerian Veterinary Medical Association, NVMA. Enahoro is currently Managing Director, GAN-ROVET ANIMAL .

In this chat with Chioma Obinna, he is optimistic that the latest outbreak of Bird flu will be effectively contained.

THE fall in the revenue accruable to state governments in Nigeria, occasioned by the falling crude oil price, has raised questions about the capacity of state governments at handling the multiplier effects of the fall

The Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Muhammad Sani-Sidi has said that there were currently 981,416 Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, in the country.

Boko Haram has claimed a massive attack feared to be the worst in its six-year insurgency and threatened Nigeria’s neighbours, as talks began for a regional response to the militants and fears grew of further violence.

President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have distanced themselves from the advertisements in some major newspapers by Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State, warning against voting for the APC presidential candidate, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), because of the possibilities that he would die in office because of his age.

A WASHINGTON, US-based influential think-tank, the Brookings Institution/Africa Growth Initiative has rated President Goodluck Jonathan as the favourite to win the February 14 presidential polls

A forum of business leaders in Nigeria under the platform of Corporate Forum has concluded plans to interact with President Goodluck Jonathan on diverse issues of national interest ahead of the Presidential polls.