Month: May 2014

After reviewing the current security challenges facing country, the Director General of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC), Brig. Gen. Jonson Bamidele Olawumi, yesterday said plans were underway to initiate...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, has written to President Goodluck Jonathan asking him to ensure that Nigerian children have access to education.   While expressing...

The usually busy streets and major roads in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) looked like a ghost town yesterday as most residents complied with the federal government’s directive to staff...

Former United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, has described the rescue operation for the over 200 abducted schoolgirls by Boko Haram in Borno State by the federal government as something that...

Nigerians have been urged to mount pressure on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to deploy and use the already purchased Card Reader to test run the Ekiti and Osun...

Gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen were yesterday said to have attacked a police station in Fadan Karshi, Sanga Local Government Area of Kaduna State, killing five people, including two...

Niger Delta youths yesterday issued a 14-day ultimatum to gas processing companies operating in the region to remit three per cent of their annual capital budget to the Niger Delta...

The federal government has threatened to terminate the contracts of contractors who  failed to execute the projects awarded to them on the rehabilitation of military barracks or abandoned the site...

The Defence Headquarters (DHQ),  has said troops operating in the North Central and North Western parts of the country have recovered caches of arms and ammunition in those areas.  ...

Hope came the way of an ex-Naval officer, Lt. Yahaya Yakubu, who was dismissed by the Nigeria Navy in 2001 as the Senate on Tuesday ordered his immediate reinstatement.  ...