Russia will hold a two-day competition next week for its Paralympic squad banned from Rio, the country’s committee chief said Wednesday, just as the official Games start in Brazil.

A report on Wednesday in Paris said 370 kilogrammes of cocaine worth 55.6 million dollars street value was found at the Coca-Cola factory plant in southern France. The report also said that Coca-Cola might have taken the cocaine out of its fizzy brew over a century ago.

THE Presidency has said that the country’s ailing economy would bounce back fully after the 2016 statutory budgets of corporations and agencies are passed by the National Assembly and subsequently assented to by President Muhammadu Buhari.

CHANCELLOR of the Eastern Mandate Union, EMU, Dr Arthur Nwankwo, has dissociated himself from the Reformed Indigenous People of Biafra, RE-IPOB, a breakaway faction of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB and his nomination as one of old Eastern Region eminent persons to negotiate with the Federal Government on Biafra.

An Ogudu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Wednesday ordered one Korede Olamide, 37, a pastor, to be remanded in prison custody for allegedly raping and robbing a woman who had met him for prayer solutions to her problems.

The rumour of the killing of a DPO by gunmen at Iwofe area of Port Harcourt at about 9 p.m. on Monday spread like wild fire in Port Harcourt.

Dr Olumide Olusola, a medical doctor, has urged parents to watch out for signs of an eating disorder called pica in children even as the more dreaded Zika virus worldwide has been greatly contained.

IT is no longer news that an estimated 220 million women worldwide want to avoid pregnancy and plan their families but lack access to modern contraception. Apart from the challenge of availability of these supplies in the various health facilities, more challenging is the myths and misconceptions these women had to battle with in their various communities.

The Rector, Delta State Polytechnic, Ozoro, Dr. Jacob Oboreh, has disclosed the completion of the school’s 14, 000 capacity mini stadium to be commissioned September this year.

Some residents of Ilorin have decried the craze over uniforms popularly called `asoebi during ceremonies, saying it is exploitative.

Residents of Hadejia in Jigawa have expressed concern over hike in prices of bread, in spite of increasing demand for it in the area. Prices of bread had gone up by about 30 per cent in the past few months.

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in real terms declined by 2.06 per cent in second quarter of 2016. This is contained in the Nigerian Gross Domestic Product Report for Second Quarter of 2016 released by NBS on Wednesday in Abuja.

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Oyegun, says the party is open to all Nigerians interested in the development of the country. Oyegun made the declaration on Wednesday in Benin when he received some members of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo, who defected to the APC.

The Founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, has pledged to use Nigerian languages in offering services on Facebook.

By Emman Ovuakporie ABUJA – EMBATTLED former House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmunin Jibrin, Wednesday is now in a closed door meeting with members of the Presidential Council on Anti-Corruption. The meeting which started at about 11am is still on going. Journalists were not allowed to enter the venue of the meeting at the […]