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Following reports of quitting by the head coach of Nigeria’s Super Eagles, Stephen Keshi after the team’s exit from the Brazil 2014 World Cup, Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has offered the coach an improved contract of N7Million a month, a top NFF official has revealed. The official asserted that Keshi is still keenly interested in […]

The impeached former Governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako, has said the planned probe of his administration by the acting Governor Alhaji Ahmadu Fintiri, is a shoddy attempt to discredit his administration. Nyako made the observation in a press statement signed by his director of press and publicity Malam Ahmad Sajoh on Wednesday. “To say […]

A female suicide bomber laden with explosives, Wednesday, blew herself up along with two graduates of the Aminu Kano College of Islamic Studies. The incident occurred while graduates of the school were checking their National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) posting. Kano state police commissioner confirmed that two students were killed. President Goodluck Jonathan has also […]

…Community Denies Organisers of the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) campaign have castigated the Federal Government for an alleged gift of 100 million naira to the parents and guardians of the abducted schoolgirls from Chibok community. The group challenged the government to tackle the problem headlong like other countries would do, rather than holding to […]

Chika Amalaha, Nigerian teenage weightlifter who clinched the country’s first gold medal at the ongoing Commonwealth Games at Glasgow, Scotland, has been provisionally suspended from the games after failing a doping test. Traces of diuretics and masking agents were found in the 16-year-old’s blood sample ‘A’ taken  on 25th July while a sample ‘B’ will […]

  After parts of a major bridge linking Gujba local government area of Yobe State to other parts of the state had been blown by men of the dreaded Boko Haram sect on Monday, residents of the local government area have been advised to leave the area because of an impending follow-up attack. Security operatives […]

Chairman of Cement Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (CMAN), an arm of Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), Engineer Joseph Makoju, has clarified that the 42.5 cement grade has more superior efficacy over and above the 42.5 grade saying the recent cement standardization by the regulatory authority was in the interest of Nigerians and Nigeria. The technocrat, […]

The attempt to snuff life out of one of Nigeria’s most revered former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari, in a fiendish operation which would have passed for a routine Boko Haram attack if their hand had performed their enterprise, would have thrown Nigeria in turmoil of unimaginable proportions as President Jonathan submitted days ago. […]

Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, on Tuesday morning lost his son, Hamza, in a car crash. The circumstances surrounding the death is not yet known, but it was learnt that the young man died in Abuja. The former FCT minister, broke the unfortunate news on his faceboook page at […]

The Lagos State Government has said on Monday that 59 people, including the Nigerian Ambassador to Liberia, Chigozie Obi-Nnadozie, had contact with the late Patrick Sawyer, who died of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Lagos last Thursday. Sawyer’s was the first recorded case of the deadly virus in Nigeria. He died in Lagos while on […]

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan wholeheartedly condemns the recent terrorist attacks in Kano and Adamawa States as well as the kidnap of the Lamido of Kolofata in Northern Cameroon, Lamido Seini Lamine and the wife of the Vice Prime Minister of Cameroon. The President describes as shocking, callous and reprehensible the multiple bomb blasts that occurred […]

The former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi has donated a cheque of N5 Million Naira given to him by Fidelity Bank Plc in commemoration of his 53rd birthday to Holy Name Secondary School, Umuchu. Presenting the cheque to the owner of the school, the Catholic Diocese of Awka led by the Bishop, Most […]