Latest Nigeria News
RSS-
Why FG Wont Disband Boko Haram Amnesty Panel - Presidency
The Federal Government will continue with the process of dialoguing with members of the Boko Haram sect with a view to achieving peace and stability in the North despite the declaration of a state of emergency in three northern states, the Presidency said on Friday. Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta, Mr. Kingsley Kuku, made the clarification while responding to a call by the ...
-
FG Endorses Brainfriend Software for Nigerian Schools
The Federal Ministry of Education has endorsed the CINFORES BrainFriend e-learning and examination preparatory software as a tool for the enhancement of teaching and learning methods in Nigerian schools. The essence is to boost the efforts government in promoting local content in software development. CINFORES Limited is an indigenous software provider, which had over the years developed ...
-
Man to Die By Hanging for Killing Wife
For failing to control his temper and moderate his actions, Mr. Habeeb Usman will have to die by hanging after he lost the appeal of the death sentence earlier passed on him by a Sokoto High Court, for killing his wife, Salamatu. Usman, from Haragawa village in Illelah Local Government Area of Sokoto State was charged with killing his wife Salamatu Habibu by stabbing her with a knife in the ...
More Nigeria News
RSS-
Fidson Grows Profit By 272 Percent to Pay N180 Million Dividend
Fidson Healthcare Plc had a bountiful harvest in 2012 as the company grew its profit after tax by 272 per cent. According to the audited results for the year ended December 31, 2012, Fidson Healthcare posted a profit before tax of N540 million, up by 152 per cent from the N214 million in 2011. Profit after tax recorded a higher growth of 272 per cent from N55 million in 2011 (18 months) to N206 ...
-
FG to Remove Barrier On Food Export to Europe
The Federal Government has said it would assist exporters of non oil products to address the bottlenecks associated with exports of food produce to European countries. The move, according to the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Mr. Olusegun Aganga, would help to facilitate trade to the United Kingdom and countries in the European Union. Aganga stated this at a workshop and ...
-
Nigeria State of Emergency - A Bold Move by the President
The declaration of Emergency Rule in three northern states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa by President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday to contain the rising tide of insurgency and terrorism in the country is perhaps one bold move the President has made since he assumed office in May, 2011. Saturday ...
-
Nigeria Achebes Family Members Associates Accuse Wife Children of Selling Late Writers Corpse to Govt
It is three days today before the remains of foremost novelist, Chinua Achebe, arrives Nigeria for a five-day burial rite that would culminate in his interment on Thursday, May 23, at his family compound in Ogidi, Anambra State. But as organizers put finishing touches to the burial arrangement, a serious controversy has blown open over the decision of the late writer's family to hand over ...
-
Nigeria Lagos Rescues Four Children Sold for N60 000 by Parents
Lagos state government, yesterday said it rescued no fewer than four children in the last one year sold by their parents and guardians for a minimum of N60, 000, to aid their financial needs. The state government however said that 187 cases of child abuse and domestic violence were reported and treated by the state government in the year under review. Deputy Governor of Lagos state, Mrs. ...
-
Nigeria Aviation Workers Insist On Strike As NAMA Says Nigerias Airspace Will Be Open to Traffic
Workers of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) under aviation unions on Sunday insisted that there was no going back on their planned protest slated for Monday, May 20. The unions said that the planned shutting down of the nation's airspace was to press home their demand for the implementation of the approved salary scale endorsed by the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages ...
-
Nigeria seeks help with tackling oil theft
The U.S. and British governments are willing to help Nigeria address rampant crude oil theft from the Niger Delta, the petroleum minister said from London. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta rebel group in April said it was launching a new campaign this year. More than 80 percent of the government's revenue comes from crude oil exports and groups like MEND tried to stop ...
-
Will U.S. Designate Egypt Pakistan Iraq and Nigeria As Religious Freedom Violators on Monday
Pakistani Christians protest against the country's blasphemy laws and violence targeting their minority community. An independent U.S. watchdog has urged the executive branch every year since 2002 to designate Pakistan as a "country of particular concern" over religious freedom violations. (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) - As the State Department prepares to release its annual report on ...
-
‘Name National Library after Achebe- Prof Nwala
By Uduma Kalu The burial rites for the eminent novelist, Prof Chinua Achebe who died on March 21 in the United States began Sunday in Abuja with a commendation service at the National Christian Centre. Chairman of the Achebe National Transition Committee, Prof. Uzodinma Nwala also asked the federal government to name the National library after the departed novelist. According to the former ...
-
Serious Big fight during extra time of league match
Players do have misunderstanding and sometimes, fight in the pitch during matches. However, this one is out of this world; it’s unbelievable. Watch the drama ...
-
Union dares NEMA says airspace will be shut down
Ikeja – Workers of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) under aviation unions on Sunday insisted that there was no going back on their planned protest slated for Monday, May 20. The unions said that the planned shutting down of the nation’s airspace was to press home their demand for the implementation of the approved salary scale endorsed by the National Salaries, Incomes ...
-
Price of gari records 50 rise
Eket (Akwa Ibom) -The price of gari has recorded more than 50 per cent increase in Eket area of Akwa Ibom, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Other items that also went up in the area, survey revealed, were the prices of other foodstuffs, including rice and fish. The survey showed that a cup of gari, which sold at N30 between February and April, now sells at N70, while the cost of six ...
-
State of Emergency - Thousands Flee to Niger Republic
Maiduguri and Abuja - Thousands of people including women and children have fled the border towns of Borno and Yobe states into Niger Republic to avoid being caught up in the military operation aimed at rooting out insurgents from the areas, reports said yesterday. The refugees said they fled after seeing armed men in many trucks around their villages and feared a repeat of the Baga-style mass ...
-
Nigeria Gives Up ITU Seats Over Gwandu
The Federal Government has written to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) to stop dealing with Dr Bashir Gwandu as a representative of the country as he is longer in the employ of the Nigerian government. Engr Gwandu, who was the elected Chairman of the technical body of the ITU, the Radio-communications Advisory Group (RAG), and also as Vice-Chairman of another technical body of ...
-
Americanah - The new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The 'Afropolitan' jet-setter began the year in a swirl of curious and adoring headlines, their multinational lives embodied in the figure of author Taiye Selasi. Having coined the term - combining 'African' and 'cosmopolitan - in a 2005 essay, Selasi captured the identity and roots of the Afropolitan in her smash debut novel Ghana Must Go, which was received with ...
-
Maigari Obaseki Back Elegbeleye to Succeed
Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) President, Alhaji Aminu Maigari and former Chairman of the Nigeria Premier League (NPL), Chief Oyuki Obaseki have expressed delight with the appointment of Hon. Gbenga Elegbeleye as the new Director General of the National Sports Commission, saying they would support him to bring development in the nation's sports sector. The former Chairman, House ...
-
NAFDAC Hails My Pikin Judgment
National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has commended Friday's court ruling, sentencing principal officials of the drug company behind the deaths of about 84 children who took a contaminated teething mixture. Assets of the Lagos-based pharmaceutical company Barewa were also ordered forfeited to government, according to ruling by a Federal High Court Justice Okechukwu ...
-
Brazil - Eagles to Face Robots at Confed Cup
Africa's representatives at next month's Confederations Cup, Nigeria's Super Eagles will come up against robots at the event following Brazilian government's announcement that some of the security robots bought to improve public safety during the 2014 World Cup will be ready for the June tournament. The company iRobot says the 30 robots would be delivered by the end of the ...
-
Presidential Reception for Eaglets Flying Eagles Tomorrow
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan will tomorrow host the country's U-17 and U-20 teams, officials disclosed. The Golden Eaglets were beaten finalists at the African U-17 Championship in Morocco, while the Flying Eagles placed third at the African Youth Championship in Algeria. The Golden Eaglets lost on penalties to Cote d'Ivoire after final scores stood at 1-1 in the championship ...
-
JAMB Candidates Get Results Same Day
Over 36,000 candidates who sat for the maiden edition of the Computer Based Test (CBT) Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) on Saturday, received the result of their performance same day. Registrar of the board, Professor Dibu Ojerinde who confirmed the number said 56 centres were used to conduct the CBT examination with 296 as the highest score and advised everyone to embrace the ...
-
New Abaji District Heads Get Instruments of Office
Fifteen newly appointed districts heads in Abaji Area Council were on Saturday turbaned and presented with their various appointment letters. The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) through the Minister of State, Oloye Olajumoke Akinjide, last week approved the appointment of the new district heads. Speaking at the event, the outgoing chairman of the council, Yahaya Musa Muhammad, ...
-
Emergency - Northern Governors Wives Caution Military
Wives of northern governors have called for the federal government to ensure that deployed soldiers to Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe, respect human rights during their operations. The governors' wives made the call in a communique issued at the end of Northern Governors' Wives Forum (NGWF) meeting held on Friday in Abuja. "The forum called on the Federal Government to ensure that ...
Nigeria Focus
-
Nigeria calling on US for misconception help
Nigeria is one of the main producers of drug lords and immigrants and is beset by political instability and groans under the weight of poverty and human strife. At least, this is the perception many in the world have, a perception that is all too narrow in its scope.
Nigeria has an enduring reputation as an exporter of criminals, drug lords, terrorists and immigrants. Such perceptions are only amplified by the recent attempted bombing of a US-bound plane on Christmas Day by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian, or the arrests every year of various Nigerian drug lords in countries around the world. Read more
News from around our Network
