By Lawani Mikairu United Nigeria Airlines will commence inaugural flight from Lagos through Enugu to Abuja airports on Friday. This was disclosed Thursday by Mr Achilleus-Chud Uchegbu , Head, Corporate Communications of the airline. Uchegbu said the inaugural flight is coming after the issuance of an Air Operators Certificate , AOC, to United Nigeria by the […]

 9mobile, a telecommunication company, says it has commenced the National Identification Number (NIN) registration exercise in selected experience centres in Lagos and Abuja.

By Obas Esiedesa – Abuja The Federal Government has taken the first major step to relocate the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, from Lagos to Abuja, with laying of the foundation for its head office building in the nation’s capital. The bulk of Nigeria’s petroleum industry’s operation, which DPR regulates, takes place in the southern […]

By Omeiza Ajayi – Abuja Barely 24 hours after operatives of the Police-led anti-kidnapping Joint Taskforce, JTF, were withdrawn, bandits have struck an orphanage in the Abaji Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory FCT, abducting at least eight orphans and three others. The Rachael Orphanage Home opposite UBE Junior Secondary School in Naharati area […]

Residents of Abuja, the nation’s capital face a possible outbreak of an epidemic that could spell doom, if the Federal Capital Territory Sewage Treatment Plant, located at Wupa District is allowed to collapse.

Arogbonlo Israel For his unrivalled human rights records and unscathed social awareness and practices, United Nations council has honoured Comrade Usman Austin Okai, through his inauguration into the UN Economic and Social Council in Africa, ECOSOC. The appointment letter was jointly signed by Dr Jovylyn Espalabra, UNESC secretary General and Dr Yosep Kang, UN Goodwill […]

A Grade I Area Court in Kubwa, Abuja, on Tuesday, ordered that a 23-year old hairstylist, Gift Paul, who allegedly beat up her former husband be remanded in a correctional facility.

Some buyers of second hand clothes in Bwari Area Council of the FCT, say they patronise the clothes not only because of its affordability but also for the upgraded standard. The buyers spoke in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at the Dutse-Alhaji market on Sunday in Abuja. The buyers were seen […]

***Reequips security with patrol vehicles ***Orders reconstruction works By Ndahi Marama – Maiduguri Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, on Sunday morning flew from Abuja to Maiduguri and arrival, took a military chopper to visit communities attacked by Boko Haram on Saturday evening, in Hawul local government area in southern portion of the state. Zulum, […]

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), has said that indigenous communities must be resettled if the territory wanted to get rid of slums within the city centre. Alhaji Mukhtar Galadima, FCTA Director, Department of Development Control, stated this shortly after a demolition exercise at Guzape District on Friday in Abuja. Galadima stressed that resettling such […]