The Federal Government has blamed the low level implementation of annual budgets and national development plans in the public service on capacity gaps in the country.

The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has risen in defence of the Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, dismissing calls for his resignation led by the State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) following allegations by some recently arrested Judges that he tried to influence their rulings on some election petition cases.

The Nigeria Police Force on Monday said it would create a Specialists Unit to deal with the rising cases of cybercrime in the country.

Mr Jiten Vyas, Chief Operating Officer of VFS Global in Africa on Monday cautioned Nigerians against patronising touts and entities using his organisation’s name to defraud visa applicants.

Three-time world player of the year Cristiano Ronaldo will have to take on Real Madrid teammate Gareth Bale for the Ballon d’Or.

A Georgian teenager Reuben Nsemoh has cheated death after he survived a life-threatening head injury on a football pitch that sent him into coma for three days.

The 2015/2016 NPFL Champions, Enugu Rangers are to be hosted by the government and people of the state on Dec. 19 and Dec. 20.

To curb increasing piracy of intellectual works, a motion picture practitioner, Mr Dele Odule, has urged the National Assembly members to initiate a bill that would apply stiffer penalties on pirates.

Eighty people have been confirmed dead and more than 600 others injured, three days after the derailment of a passenger train in Cameroon.

Abuja – A 28-year–old woman, Jamila Idris, on Monday prayed a Grade 1 Area Court in Gudu, Abuja, to grant her the custody of her three children from her former husband, Umar Musa. Jamila a tailor of Durunmi 3, Abuja, also prayed the court to order Musa to provide monthly N30,000 allowances for maintenance of […]

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA – The National Judicial Council, NJC, Monday, inaugurated a 10-man Judicial Ethics Committee with a mandate to review the Code of Conduct for Judicial Officers in the country. The Committee headed by a former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Idris Legbo Kutugi, also has an erstwhile Chairman of the Independent Corrupt […]

Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, is holding a meeting with the progressive governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, the nation’s capital.

For allegedly stealing a phone valued at N140, 000, a 23-year-old unemployed man, James Adavo, was on Monday released on a bail of N200, 000 on the order of a Badagry Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State.

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, his counterparts in Oyo and Osun States, Senator Abiola Ajimobi and Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola on Monday said that if the nation must make meaningful progress, the family, which is the mirror by which any society is measured, must be strengthened.

-The Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Mr Boboye Oyeyemi, on Monday said all commercial vehicles coming into the country from January 1, 2017 must be fitted with speed limiter.