As part of the strategies to re-orientate the people to become self-reliant, the Governor Udom Emmanuel-led government of Akwa Ibom State has unveiled a social innovation project called ‘Hire a Workman’.

A night inferno on Wednesday razed a filling station, 10 vehicles, 13 buildings and other property worth millions of naira on Upper New Market Road in Onitsha. An eyewitness told newsmen on Thursday, that the fire started at about 8 p.m when an articulated vehicle, laden with petrol, fell inside Mobil filling station by Dennis […]

Lagos – A Lagos-based lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), has asked a Federal High Court in Lagos to vacate an interim order freezing his account. Recalled that Justice Abdulazeez Anka, had on Feb. 7, ordered a temporary forfeiture of N75million found in Ozekhome’s Guarantee Trust Bank account. The order followed an application by the Economic […]

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made his diplomatic debut at a G20 gathering in Germany on Thursday as Russia pressed the Trump administration to keep its promises of improved relations.

Youths in Enugu State on Thursday stormed major streets of the coal city in celebration of the Appeal Court judgment affirming, Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, as winner of the 2014 PDP governorship primaries.

Abuja – The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday adjourned till March 29, trial-within-trial in the fraud case filed against Mr Stephen Oronsaye, former Head of Civil Service of the Federation. At the resumed hearing, Mr Mustapha Gadanya, a prosecution witness, told the court during cross examination, that Mr Osarenkhoe Afe, the second defendant, willing […]

Arsene Wenger’s future as Arsenal manager will be decided at the end of the season, the BBC reported on Thursday without citing sources.

Nigeria is like an umbrella sheltering different cultures, religions, traditions, and values. This is why there is a cultural difference between Southern and Northern Nigeria.

An estranged husband, Alex Imukoro, on Thursday pleaded with an Agege Customary Court in Lagos to dissolve his marriage because of the adulterous ways of his wife.

Mr Andrew Herscowitz, Coordinator of the United States Power Africa Project, has advised people in Nigeria and other African countries to pay for steady power supply.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has disbursed the sum of $2.83 billion for utilization in the critical sectors of the economy in the last two months of December 2016 and January 2017.

Dos – A Jos Magistrates’ Court on Thursday sentenced a housewife, Gift Benjamin, 41, to seven months imprisonment for converting her friend’s N100, 000 to personal use. Benjamin, a resident of Abattoir area of Jos borrowed the amount from her friend and did not pay back. She faced a two-count charge of criminal breach of […]

Mr Israel Adeshola, the National President of Bus Conductors Association of Nigeria (BCAN), says that as from March it is mandatory for bus conductors in Lagos state to wear uniforms, name tags and badges.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested one Benjamin Aduli for offences bordering on criminal breach of trust and obtaining by false pretence.

President Muhammadu Buhari has thanked all Nigerians, “Christians and Muslims alike”, for their constant prayers and kind wishes for his health.