Mrs Chinelo Anohu-Amazu, the Director-General, National Pencom Commission (PenCom), said on Friday that Nigeria was ready to host the second edition of the World Pension Summit-Africa Special in Abuja. Anohu-Amazu said this in Lagos during an interactive session with newsmen on the upcoming event and the launch of a new logo for the commission.

Barr Bassey Okon Willie, a witness for the Akwa Ibom governor, Udom Emmanuel and the PDP, told the governorship tribunal sitting in Abuja Friday that he signed all the result sheets for Oron Local Government Area.  Willie said this during his testimony at the continuation of hearing on the matter.

The Bayelsa State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Baritor Kpagih, has complained about the poor turnout of residents for the ongoing Continuous Voters’ Registration (CVR).

Prof. Godwin Onu, Rector, Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra, on Friday urged lecturers of the institution to strive and obtain their doctoral degrees or be ready to lose their jobs.

The Federal Government said on Friday that a comprehensive review of Nigeria’s foreign policy would help to address corruption, terrorism and other challenges to the nation’s development.

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, has condemned Thursday’s alleged invasion of the Akwa Ibom State Government House by armed men of the Department of State Services (DSS), calling for the immediate sack of the Director General of the agency, Alhaji Lawal Daura.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) describes as “a deceptive window-dressing to hoodwink unsuspecting Nigerians” the release, by an aide of the President, of a mere list of some belongings of President Muhammadu Buhari and his Vice, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, in place of the pledge made to Nigerians by Mr. President as candidate of the APC on March 18, 2015, at exactly 5 pm.

The Police in Lagos have arrested a couple in Ikosi-Ketu for allegedly inflicting injuries on their 16-year-old house help. Sources close to Ketu Police Station where the case was reported by a good Nigerian, told newsmen that the wife was the suspect who assaulted the maid.

Maiduguri – The Nigerian Army on Friday destroyed 2,000 cartons of dried fish and smoked meat recovered from suspected Boko Haram insurgents. Col. Tukur Gusau, spokesman of the 7 Division of the Nigerian Arm,y Maiduguri, supervised the public destruction of the items in Maiduguri. Gusau said the items were recovered by the military after different […]

The crisis sparked by rising migrant arrivals to the European Union was one of the major themes discussed at the meeting of finance ministers and central bank chiefs from the world’s top 20 economies, a Turkish minister said. “We discussed for the first time the migration issue in the context of labour migration,” Turkey’s Labour and Social Security Minister Ahmet Erdem told reporters in Ankara after the first sessions of the two-day G20 meeting got under way in the Turkish capital.

Mounting attacks by Nigeria’s ferocious Boko Haram Islamists have sent more than 2.1 million people fleeing their homes in northeast Nigeria, the International Organization for Migration said Friday. Revising sharply upwards its previous estimate of 1.5 million, the Geneva-based IOM agency attributed the increase to a very recent spike in Boko Haram’s six-year insurgency.

A 22-year-old man, Aladegolu Victor, was on Friday sentenced to three years imprisonment by an Osogbo Magistrates’ Court, for impersonating as Directorate of State Security (DSS) and Police officer. The Magistrate, Mr Olusola Aluko, said the convict should serve the jail term due to the gravity of the offence.

OSOGBO – Last week was particularly busy for tourists and people who cherish tradition and culture of the people of Osogbo in particular as different people from all walks of life were there for the annual world acclaimed Osun Osogbo festival. The festival which attracted very large crowd, as the Osun Osogbo which has become one of the UNESCO heritage sites climaxed on Friday 21st August, for the grand finale of the week long activities.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it plans to auction N814.78 billion in Treasury bills between Sept. 17 to Dec. 3.

A village of almost 1,000 people has been placed in quarantine in Sierra Leone after the death of a 67-year-old woman from Ebola, officials said on Friday.