The Senate’s Committee on Petroleum said the Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, did not contravene any law in the restructuring of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

The Lagos State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Aka Ikenga, an Igbo think-tank organization, have given kudos to the Lagos State Government and security operatives in the state over the successful rescue of three schoolgirls abducted from Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary School in Ikorodu Lagos last week.

Imo State Government has described as “most unfortunate and grossly embarrassing”, the attempt by members of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, to disrupt Governor Rochas Okorocha’s speech at the world-famous Chatham House, London, which he was invited to deliver.

The Lagos State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Aka Ikenga, an Igbo think-tank organization, have lauded Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State, as well as security operatives in the state over the successful rescue of three schoolgirls abducted from Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary School in Ikorodu Lagos last week.

President Muhammadu Buhari, Thursday, warned that the lingering crisis in South Sudan must not be allowed to lead to the collapse of the country.

A 27-year-old man, Sule Otapo, was on Thursday sentenced to seven and half years imprisonment by a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, for unlawful confraternity and public terrorism.

The Inspector-General of Police (IG), Mr Solomon Arase, has said that the Nigeria Police Force had spent over N600 million on the procurement and maintenance of foreign dogs in the last few years.

(Xinhua/NAN) The Swiss State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) on Thursday said a total of 2,705 new asylum requests were submitted in February in Switzerland, almost a quarter fewer than in January.

The Federal High Court in Abuja has granted bail to the ‎former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh (retd),‎ to the tune of N2billion.

The ‎Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, urged the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to deny bail to the former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh (retd), ‎who it said looted over N3.9billion from accounts of the Nigerian Air Force.

The first Africa installation of  GE’s solar hybrid technology will go ahead later this year at the Northern  Noodles factory in Kaduna, northern Nigeria.

An Ilorin Magistrates’ Court on Thursday remanded a security guard, Habila Hayanchi, 25, for allegedly stabbing a motorcyclist, Mohammed Awwal to death over N200 fare.

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kacikwu, is to set up a committee to examine the demands of oil and gas unions over the new structure of the NNPC, according to a trade unionist.

Their biographies, to the lay-man, look like something akin to the work of a superhero, and they could just save the continent.

Ms Emily Enright, the Citizen Service Officer, U.S. Embassy, Abuja has urged the media to mobilise Nigerians with dual citizenship on their right to vote in the November U.S. Presidential election.