Abuja comes alive, as Jonathan launches Rhythm N' Play
Velodrome of the Abuja National Stadium will come alive today, as President Goodluck Jonathan officially launches Rhythm N' Play, an initiative of the Nigeria Academicals Sports Committee which was...
View ArticleNigeria: Dana Crash - Controversy Over Missing Names On Cenotaph
Controversy has continued to trail the list of victims of the ill-fated Dana plane, engraved on the tombstone at the cenotaph located at the Iju-Ishaga site of the crash, Lagos, unveiled on Monday by...
View ArticleNigeria: Electricity Situation a Nightmare, Says Govt
Federal Government, yesterday, in Abuja, said despite the investment in the power sector, only 25 percent of Nigerians currently had access to electricity.
View ArticleNigeria: Constitution Review - Senate Bars Jonathan, Governors From 2015
Senate Constitution Review Committee has barred President Goodluck Jonathan, Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo and all serving governors from contesting election for the six-year single term being...
View ArticleWest Africa: West African States to Unite Against Piracy
... agency said. Piracy is on the increase in the Gulf of Guinea region, which includes Africa's No. 1 oil producer Nigeria and is a significant source of commodities including cocoa for world markets....
View ArticleNigeria: Locally-Made Footwear Attracts High Patronage - Survey
A survey in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, has shown that locally-manufactured foot wears now attract higher patronage than foreign ones, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
View ArticleNigeria: Fuel Subsidy Scam - FG Slashes Oil Importers From 128 to 38
THE Senate was yesterday told that the Federal Government has slashed down the number of oil importers into the country from 128 to 38 as at December 2012.
View ArticleNigeria: One Out of 1,500 Corps Members Qualifies During Employable Skills Test
In an employable skills test conducted by employers of labour recently in Lagos, most of the corps members have through their performances justified claims that most graduates are not employable.
View ArticleNigeria: 'High Unemployment Due to Dependence On Govt'
Youth dependence on acquiring white collar jobs instead of becoming employers of labour is partly responsible for the high level of unemployment bedeviling the country.
View ArticleKano Hezbollah bunker: Security uncovers fresh weapons
A combined team of officers of the Directorate of State Service, DSS, and soldiers drawn from 3 Brigade, Nigerian Army, has uncovered more fresh weapons of war at a private residence at 3, Gaya Road...
View ArticleDriving in Nigeria: Time for a test
... afternoon in Abuja, the capital, and your correspondent is being given a lesson on how to drive-and indicate-in Nigeria. Road accidents are Nigeria's third-leading cause of deaths. According to the...
View ArticleHezbollah, Hezboll - eh?
... Hezbollah operatives and uncovered a large stash of weapons, foiling a plot to attack Israeli and Western targets in Nigeria. Nigerian military spokesman Captain Ikedichi Iweha said that three...
View ArticleOne-of-a-Kind Wheels
Men rode a motorbike decorated to look like a colorful animal at a street carnival in Tafawa Balewa Square in Lagos, Nigeria, in 2011.
View ArticleUK should do high-tech the Israeli way, say Labour shadow ministers
... of Israel event at Google's Tech City campus in London. It used video links with teams in Tel Aviv and Lagos, Nigeria, to discuss "tech-cities" and start-up businesses. Participants included...
View ArticleChallenges at frontline of Nigeria extremist fight Islamist...
Islamist extremists raised their black flag over this village in the remote plains of northeast Nigeria, setting fire to a church, shutting down the schools and bombing the police station in a violent...
View ArticleIn brief
Chinelo Okparanta's bittersweet stories are set mostly in her Nigerian birthplace, Port Harcourt.
View ArticlePamper Yourself: The Pamper Me Pretty Spa Beauty Event hits Silver Lounge,...
... for the very first PAMPER ME PRETTY GH event in Accra Ghana. After the success of PAMPER ME PRETTY last year in Nigeria Aesthetics cosmetics reaches out to other parts of Africa. The event is being...
View ArticleSpecifics elusive in Nigeria's extremist fight
Military commanders promised a tour of this northeast Nigeria city, the birthplace of the nation's Islamic extremist insurgency, to show the busy streets and people selling fruits from wheelbarrows...
View ArticleNigerian Islamists retreat, apparently to fight another day
... village, near Maiduguri June 5, 2013. REUTERS/Joe Brock Hausari Camp - 300 square metres of baking wilderness near Nigeria's border with Chad - was until last month a base for militants from Boko...
View ArticleVisit to Boko Haram Zone Leaves Unanswered Questions
A soldier walks past a burned vehicle during a military patrol in Hausari village, near Maiduguri in Borno State, Nigeria, June 5, 2013.
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