College of education to commence degree programmes
Kaduna State College of Education, Gidan Waya, has concluded arrangements to commence degree programme in some fields of study during the 2014/2015 academic session. The Acting Provost of the college,...
View ArticleUK probes APC’s alleged link with Boko Haram •We’ll react appropriately —Lai...
Opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) may have come under the spotlight of the British government over allegations that it has links with the dreaded Boko Haram terrorist group. Feelers from the...
View ArticleTraders lament raid of Computer Village by SON
Traders at the popular Computer Village, Ikeja, in Lagos are still licking their wounds from a raid allegedly carried out by officers of the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) in a bid by the...
View ArticleJonathan celebrates Soyinka at 80
President Jonathan has congratulated Nigeria’s most famous living literary giant and the first African Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, as he marks the landmark age of 80 years on today. The...
View ArticleThree Nigerians jailed in UK for human trafficking
Three Nigerians, Olusoji Oluwafemi, Johnson Olayinka and Florence Obadiaru have been jailed in Britain for human trafficking. The three human smugglers were jailed for a total of 13 years for...
View ArticleSultan: Usman Danfodio’s Jihad never forced people to accept islam
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar 111, in this interview with journalists at a Ramadan dinner in his palace, speaks on the rising wave of religious insurgency and insecurity in the...
View ArticleTwo per cent of bishops, others are pedophiles, says Pope
Pope Francis Sunday condemned child sex abuse as a “leprosy” in the Church and cited his aides as saying that “the level of paedophilia in the Church is at two per cent.” “That two per cent includes...
View ArticleBayelsa warns residents of impending floods
The Bayelsa State Government has forewarned the residents that if the prediction of the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs comes true, five local government areas in the state may be submerged by floods....
View ArticleLagos issues alert on Ebola, gives precautionary tips
Worried by the increasing cases of deaths from the outbreak of Ebola virus in some neighbouring West African countries, the Lagos state government, yesterday gave some precautionary measures to...
View ArticleExternal Reserves stage recovery, rises by $1.030b in one month
Nigeria’s beleaguered foreign reserves seems to be gradually regaining its upswing as it rose by $1.030 billion in the last one month to close at $38.136 billion at the weekend. This represents an...
View ArticleConfab Dividing Nigeria, Aiding Jonathan’s 3rd Term Ambition – Kwankwaso
The Kano State governor Rabiu Kwankwaso has said that the ongoing national conference is more ... The post Confab Dividing Nigeria, Aiding Jonathan’s 3rd Term Ambition – Kwankwaso appeared first on The...
View ArticlePresident Jonathan Commiserates With Kogi Governor Over His Father’s Death
On behalf of the Federal Government, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has commiserated with the Governor of Kogi State, Captain Idris Wada and the government and people of Kogi State on the passing...
View ArticleFG freezes NFF’s accounts
The crisis that is currently rocking the country’s football is far from being over, as the Federal Government has ordered for the closure of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), bank accounts. This...
View ArticleChurch of England General Synod approves female bishops
The Church of England has finally agreed that women may become bishops next year, breaking with nearly 2,000 years of tradition and ending 20 years of bitter compromises since women were allowed to...
View ArticleDutse Airport begins commercial operation
The Dutse International Airport constructed by the Jigawa State government yesterday recorded its maiden commercial flight operation. The ceremony, which was marked by a commercial flight of Overland...
View ArticleIndustrialisation: BoI to explore alternative funding sources
The Bank of Industry has resolved to explore alternative funding sources to aid the realisation of its key mandates following pressure on government resources. The bank noted that the decision was to...
View ArticleI dumped PDP over FG’s delay to implement UNEP report – Amaechi
Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Amaechi has declared that failure of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) led Federal government to implement the United Nations Environmental Protection Agency (UNEP)...
View ArticleJudiciary workers shut courts
As the strike action embarked upon by members of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, JUSUN, throughout the country enters its second working day yesterday, judicial activities across the country have...
View ArticleDanjuma heads committee to support victims of insurgency
President Goodluck Jonathan has appointed General Theophilus Danjuma (rtd) and 25 others to raise funds to support victims of the boko Haram insurgency. In a statement issued Monday evening by the...
View ArticleNyako: Probe panel submits report
The seven-man panel set up by the former acting Chief Judge of the state, Justice Ambrose Mamedi, to investigate the alleged gross misconduct levelled against Governor, Murtala Nyako and his Deputy,...
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