Gabon will this month become the third consecutive hosts of the biennial Africa Cup of Nations who were not originally awarded the tournament.

Some state governments across the country have highlighted some measures aimed at improving agricultural production in 2017, following the current economic recession, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.

Alhaji Hassan Abubakar, Chairman, Taraba Union of Pensioners, says the state government is owing members of the union gratuities amounting to N14. 9 billion.

IN his Christmas day remarks, Governor Rochas Okorocha peppered his speech with sentiments that were quite repugnant and hence must be repudiated. He argued in his statement that “leaders cannot afford to hand over to the next generation”. As ignominious as his assertions are, we are condemned to being held captive by such antiquarian ideas owing to our collective silence and daming inertia.

Norway is set to become the first nation to start switching off its FM radio network, in a risky and unpopular leap to digital technology that will be closely watched by other countries considering whether to follow suit.

The Chairman of FCT Coaches Association, Godwin Bamigboye, on Monday in Abuja urged national female players to emulate Super Falcons’ Asisat Oshoala so as to flourish in their football career.

Another human H7N9 avian flu case has been reported in southwest China’s Guizhou Province, health authorities said on Monday.

The Australia Zoo, at North of Brisbane the zoo said on Monday that a second woman within a week has been bitten by a wild snake at a zoo.

THE Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) last week reduced its weekly foreign exchange sale to banks by 25 percent, even as prices of Nigeria’s Eurobond rose amid renewed investor’s interest.

The Sokoto State Government has denied disbanding the State Hisbah Commission as widely reported in the media.