Month: September 2013

The House of Representatives Committee on Sports on Wednesday expressed dissatisfaction with the renovated Abuja stadium pitch. Rep. Godfrey Gaiya, who led his committee members on oversight function to the...

ABUJA—Accusations of asset stripping at the Aluminium Smelter Company of Nigeria re-echoed, yesterday, following the discovery of a 50,000-litre oil tank belonging to the company in nearby Ibom Power Company,...

FORMER President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Mr. Olisa Agbakoba has written to the Senate President, Senator David Mark on the importance of convening a Sovereign National Conference, SNC....

WORRIED by the protracted industrial action embarked upon by public university lecturers under the aegis of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Vice-Chancellors of private universities have expressed concern and...

WARRI— FOR robbing a couple at gunpoint and raping their teenage daughter, a Delta High Court sitting in Warri, yesterday, sentenced a 26-year-old furniture maker, Chijioke Ede, to death by hanging....

FOR the umpteenth time, the nation was again, told that Nigeria holds the dismal record of having the highest paid legislators globally. Had this report not emanated from The Economist...

No fewer than eleven(11) middle-aged men have been arrested by policemen, while about two hundred machetes/cutlasses and assorted charms allegedly brought by some sections of the Nnewi community in Anambra...