NIGERIA: Kano govt gives scholarship to 100 indigent students
In its bid to delist Kano State from the list of least educated states, the state government has awarded full scholarship to 100 indigent students to study any course of...
NIGERIA: Jonathan orders deployment of war planes to Mail
Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal Alex Barde, said the Nigerian Airforce will commence deployment of Nigeria war planes to check the activities of jihad fighters in Mali on Thursday...
NIGERIA: TASUED merger, NANS appeals to Amosun
The President-elect of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Yinka Gbadebo has appealed to the government of Ogun State to reconsider its earlier decision to merge the state owned...
US to become self-sufficient for energy needs by 2030: BP
The United States will become almost self-sufficient for its energy needs by 2030, boosted by shale oil and gas output and slowing demand, British energy giant BP forecast on Wednesday....
Kwara poly loses sensitive documents to early morning fire
Early morning fire Wednesday gutted Kwara state polytechnic, Ilorin. Sensitive documents, several splits air condition and furniture among others were lost to the fire inferno. Rector,Alh.Moshood Elelu who confirmed the...
Mark warns politicians on 2015,says Nigeria will not break
ABUJA-AS Senate resumed plenary Wednesday after the break, with a warning to politicians not to over heat the polity ahead of 2015, just as it said that Nigerians must not...
NIGERIA: 25 fuel-laden ships waiting to discharge at Lagos ports
Twenty five ships are waiting to discharge petroleum products at the various oil terminals within the Lagos ports, the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has said. NPA, in its daily `Shipping...
Bleaching products can cause infertility, kidney failure, others – Experts warn
Medical experts have have warned Nigerians on the dangers of using bleaching products. Dr Akinlolu Siyanbola, a dermatologist at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Hospital, Osogbo, and Dr Abimbola...
NIGERIA: Court acquits sales girl of theft charges
A Zuba Grade 1 Area Court has acquited a 21-year old sales girl, Charity Samuel, of an alleged theft charge. The Police Prosecutor, Sgt. Haruna Danlami, had told the court...
NIGERIA: Sugarcane seller stabs customer to death
A major communal conflict was wednesday averted in Makurdi the Benue state capital, after a sugarcane seller, (names withheld) allegedly stabbed 19 year old Umaru Abdulrahaman his customer to death...