The reconstruction of the runway of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, has reached 57.5% completion, mid-way into the six weeks earmarked for the project, the Minister of State for Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, disclosed in Abuja on Thursday.

The embattled Akwa Ibom House of representatives’ member, Mr. Nse Ekpenyong currently facing a certificate forgery case, is allegedly remanded in Uyo prisons for failing to meet bail conditions.

Michel Platini laid bare his anger at his spectacular downfall on Thursday, breaking his silence to accuse FIFA bosses of wanting to destroy him and claiming Sepp Blatter “always said I’d be his last scalp”.

In continuation of its determination to sustain liquidity in the foreign exchange market, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is to commence twice weekly foreign exchange sales to Bureaux de Change(BDCs) as from Monday, next week.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday said it would start selling foreign exchange to the Bureau de Change (BDC) market twice weekly and also boost their liquidity by 20 per cent.

A Kwara table tennis player, Timothy Abiara, on Thursday in Ilorin slumped and died while training at the table tennis hall of the State Stadium Complex.

Increasing demand for the dollar at the parallel market on Thursday resulted in the rise of the greenback currency to N380 from N370 on Wednesday in Abuja.

The House of Representatives on Thursday urged the Federal Government to establish more Special Colleges of Education to cater for the education needs of physically-challenged persons.

The Niger Delta Master Plan unveiled by the administration of former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, was perhaps the first serious attempt by any government to move away from the tokenism that has characterized interventions in the region said to produces the nation’s wealth. Before then, there hadn’t been any clear-cut policy on how to permanently and satisfactorily address the problems of the region.

The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Dr Boboye Oyeyemi says more than N3.2 billion was lost to road crashes caused by articulated vehicles in the first quarter of the year.

Prof. Manny Aniebonam, President of AfriHub, has called for the establishment of `Nigeria Fact Checker Platform’ that would score news items coming out of the country daily.

Gunmen on Thursday in Owerri, shot dead, a yet to be identified man and took away a bag from him suspected to contain money .

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) on Thursday paid glowing tributes to former Nigeria player and coach, Paul Hamilton, who passed on same day in Lagos after a protracted illness.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu has said President Muhammadu Buhari has not changed his plan to return to his doctors in London, United Kingdom for follow-ups.

By Chukwuemeka Opara Abakaliki – Gov. David Umahi of Ebonyi has ordered the immediate suspension of the state Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Augustine Nwankwagu, for non-commitment to duty. The governor also indefinitely suspended the state Solicitor-General and Permanent Secretary of the ministry of Justice, Mr Jonathan Okoronkwo for the same reason. The […]