The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has recorded low patronage as it commenced Lagos to Kano rail transport, due to heavy downpour in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent who monitored the take-off of the train at Ido on Friday in Lagos observed that the train departed at 12 :10 p:m.NAN also reports that […]

The Federal Government on Friday resumed its social support of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) to poor and indigent households in Imo.

People in most parts of Africa make Ankara fabric clothing. However, the fabrics were not designed by Africans. It originated in Europe. The Dutch made Ankara fabrics for Africans. The Ankara was believed to have been brought to Africa as a gift by West African men who had enlisted in Dutch colonial armies in the 19th century. As more black people returned to Africa after World War II, they brought Ankara prints that reflected African culture. 

. By Peter Duru, Makurdi Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state, Friday filed a N60billion suit against the Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs, Senator George Akume at the Makurdi High Court for defamation. The Governor dragged Senator Akume to court over his last Monday media outing in Abuja where he among others accused […]

Unknown gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted a man, Abdullahi Benda, and his 23-year-old son, Jibrin Abdullahi Benda at an Abuja community, Yangoji village in Kwali Area Council of Abuja.

The Convener, Got Your Back Nigeria, Professor Chris Mustapha Nwaokobia Jnr, has said that contrary to a news report, there was no money belonging to Kogi State that was frozen in any bank.

The Ogun State Local Government Congress Committee for All Progressives Congress (APC) has warned any member of the party planning to conduct parallel congress to shelve the idea.

horities of the 3 Division Nigerian Army have called in all organised groups in Plateau State to understand that they have a responsibility to contribute positively to the peacebuilding effort in the State in particular and the nation as a whole.

Two people have been killed at Mararaba Pushit, Mangu local government area of Plateau State, the State Police Command has confirmed.

CHAIRMAN of the Committee for the conduct of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Local Government Congress in Delta State, Mr Matthew Onegara, Friday, said the Congress would hold in the State. 

The Federal Government has said it did everything possible to stop the ongoing nationwide strike by members the National Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, which has paralysed activities in government-owned hospitals across the country, saying it has spent over N203.3 billion on the striking doctors’ welfare

Against the backdrop of the war against criminal elements, especially bandits and kidnappers, the Police in Katsina State has within the past four months, arrested a total of thousand, five hundred and three (1,503) suspected high-profile suspects in connection with different violent crimes.

Chairman, Plantation Owners Forum of Nigeria (POFON) and Chief Executive Officer, Aden River Estates Limited, an agro-industrial subsidiary of Ibru Organisation, Mr Emmanuel Ibru, in a chat with journalists on the state of oil palm, cash crop production in the country, challenges, potentialities and need to get mobilised for industrial investments and revolution through oil palm production and other tree crops. By Jimoh Babatunde

The federal government is set to improve transportation modes as a way of cutting cost of production and enhancing the ease of doing business in the country.

As the case of a suspected internet scamster, Raymond Abbas, aka Hushpuppi, lingers, a United States district judge, William M Ray II, weekend sentenced Bamidele Muraina, a 34-year-old Nigerian hacker to five years and ten months in prison.