No fewer than four persons were feared dead and on Thursday after violence erupted at Agiliti area, near popular Mile 12 market in Lagos.Photo credit: @rrslagos767

The Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, on Thursday said that a major overhaul of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) system would be announced in the next one week.

The House of Representatives, on Thursday, it would do everything to ensure that the murderers of a Nigerian, Timothy Chinedu, in South Africa, faced the law.

Interim Super Eagles Head Coach, Samson Siasia, on Thursday released list of 42 players invited for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) two-legged encounter against Egypt.

Mr. Charles Oruru, father of Ese yesterday at his Opolo residence on the return of his daughter said: “I am very happy the storm is over. I thanked God for her safe return and all Nigerians who made it possible for her return. I thanked the commissioner of police, the NGOs, the media and other civil society groups.

The youth wing of the pan Igbo socio political group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has accused the leadership of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, of prolonging the detention of its leader and Director, Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, by fighting individuals and groups working for his release.

Latest study on five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa has revealed that 63 percent of respondents are unbanked, while 52 percent use mobile money through agents.

ONDO State Governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko has urged politicians and governments in Nigeria and in Africa not to stifle the social media because it plays critical roles in governance. According to him, a vibrant social media is one of the things needed to drive and sustain development in Africa, a continent he said must fast-track her industrialization to address looming challenges.

As the battle to clear the remnants of Boko Haram terrorists intensify, Nigerian Army troops carrying out mop up operations as well as search and rescue drills have discovered several bomb making factories belonging to Boko Haram terrorists in Borno state.

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State , Thursday, ordered the temporary closure of the Mile 12 Market, following a dispute which erupted within the communities in Ketu-Mile 12 area of the state.

South Africa’s Constitutional Court has rejected Oscar Pistorius’s last-ditch attempt to appeal against his murder conviction for shooting dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, an official said Thursday.

In December 2015, Mrs Sarah Smith, like most women agonised over the high cost of tomatoes in the market which marred her Christmas shopping due to paucity of funds arising from the economic downturn of the country.

The UNESCO’s Institute for Statistics (UIS) says‎ 16 million girls, below age 11, will not get basic education, compared to about eight million boys, if current trends continue. The UNESCO Director-General, Irina Bokova, stated this in a statement credited to a new report released on Thursday by the organisation ahead of the run-up to International Women’s Day slated for March 8. The report, “UNESCO eAtlas of Gender Inequality in Education’’ showed that girls were still the first to be denied the right to education, despite all the efforts and progress made over the past 20 years.

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Thursday expressed fulfillment in the realisation of his campaign promise to establish an Employment Trust Fund (ETF), saying the initiative was a paradigm shift in positively and productively engaging the teeming youths of the state. Governor Ambode, who spoke at the Lagos House, Alausa while inaugurating the board of the ETF, said the establishment of the Fund marked a turning point in the responsiveness of government to the yearnings of the youth and unemployed people.

Following the violent communal clash between the Hausa and Yoruba community, the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode , in swift reaction to quell the crisis, placed immediate curfew in locations where the fracas occurred and ordered the popular Mile-2 Market in Ikosi-Isheri Local Council Development Area, LCDA, shut indefinitely.