The Swaziland national team have gone into camp in preparation for their 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Nigeria on November 13. The Sihlangu, Wednesday. started their final leg of preparations at the National Football Association Technical Centre in Lobamba for the first leg of the qualifier Coach Harries ‘Madze’ …

RUTH David, Bauchi The Bauchi State Primary Health care Development Agency (BASPHCDA) has revealed that about 1.6 million children from within the ages of 9 to 59 months are to be vaccinated against measles in the state. Briefing newsmen, Wednesday, in a press briefing on November 2015 measles campaign strategies …

Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has given assurance that his administration would collaborate with the Rural Access and Mobility Programme (RAMP) to rehabilitate rural roads in Nkanu East council area of the state. The governor said that in spite of the financial constraints his administration is facing, he would …

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, Wednesday, administered the oath of office on newly appointed Head of Service (HOS), Mrs. Olabowale Toluwatope Ademola, with a charge on her to see the appointment as a call to duty and immediately get to work, prove herself and justify the responsibility placed on …

RUTH David, Bauchi Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 12, Tunde Ogunsakin has assured that the Nigeria police in his Zone will stamp out insurgency by the December deadline given by the President Muhammadu Buhari. The AIG stated this, Wednesday, during a courtesy visit to the Emir of Bauchi, Alhaji …

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode has reiterated the commitment of his administration to build on the successes recorded in the past in the area of Arbitration practice for economic gains that would benefit the people of the State. Governor Ambode stated this in his remarks at the opening plenary …

Kwara State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed has directed the Kwara Ethnix Design (Nig) Limited, a company jointly owned by the state government and a South African-based venture, Ethnix Design, to initiate a youth training programme on modern furniture work as part of efforts to boost the state government’s youth entrepreneurship …

President Muhammadu Buhari, Wednesday, said all efforts to achieve political stability and maintain peace in Africa will continue to receive the country’s full support. Buhari made the remark while speaking at an audience with Special Envoys of President Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The President, in …

Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, was agog, Wednesday, as Governor Seriake Dickson, took his campaign to Ovom, Swali, Onopa, Amarata and various communities in the metropolis. Indigenes and other residents of the communities in the Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state, trooped out to receive the governor and his …

Senate President, Abubakar Bukola Saraki, Wednesday, announced the various committees and their heads to oversee relevant issues arising on the floor of the house. This is as the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) predictably dominated the headship of the committees. The list as read by Saraki during Plenary has Senator …

President Muhammadu Buhari, Wednesday, scrapped the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P). The president also ordered the Presidential Committee and workers of the agency to close operations. The President’s order was delivered to the SURE-P Committee through a letter from the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the …

Chief Reuben Fasoranti, Wednesday, formally withdrew his earlier letter of resignation as national leader of the pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere. He took the decision to withdraw the letter at a meeting held in his Ijapo, Akure residence. Pa Fasoranti had thrown the organization into panic when he announced his resignation, …

Idang Alibi With the confirmation, last week, of President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial nominees which included Rotimi Amaechi and Babatunde Fashola, Nigerians, especially the people of Rivers and Lagos states, will heave a huge sigh of relief. The machinery of Buhari’s government, it is hoped, will now move more smoothly and …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has secured the conviction of one Nura Musa for dealing in counterfeit currency. The 30-year-old convict was arraigned before Justice M.G. Umar of Federal High Court, sitting in Bauchi, Bauchi State on July 3, 2014 on a two-count charge bordering on conspiracy and …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has formally arraigned in court the former Benue State Governor, Mr. Gabriel Suswam, for money laundering and embezzlement floowing days of interrogations. The arraignment of Suswam, who ruled Benue State from 2007 to 2015, follows the filing of a nine-count charge largely bordering on …

Nigeria’s non-oil exports earnings have dropped by $261 million (N52.2 billion) in the second quarter of this year, the Nigerian Export Promotion Council has said. It said the non-oil export dipped to N78.2 billion ($391 million) in the second quarter of 2015 from N130.4 billion ($652 million) recorded in the …

South African lawmakers plan to summon MTN Group Limited officials to explain why the company was fined $5.2 billion by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) for failing to disconnect customers with unregistered phone cards. The fine is “a worrying issue,” Nkhensani Kubayi, chairwoman of Parliament’s telecommunications committee, said by phone …

Protesting local government workers pensioners in Edo state, Tuesday, demanding the payment of their pension‏ arrears

The Enugu State Waste Management Authority (ESWAMA) has denied allegations by the Civil Rights Realization and Advancement Network (CRRAN), that its staff attacked and injured two security men at a residential house in Enugu while carrying out an enforcement operation. A statement signed by the Managing Director of the Authority, …

AGENE GODWIN, Benin AT least six persons including two policemen and a private security man were killed, Tuesday evening, when dare-devil armed robbers invaded two banks located in Igarra, headquarters of the Akoko-Edo local government area of Edo state. As at the time of this report Tuesday, the entire Igarra …

NEDU MARK, YENAGOA As Bayelsans prepare for the December 5, 2015 governorship election, a frontline youth group in the Niger Delta, United Niger People for Dickson, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to set up panel of Inquiry to investigate the wanton killings and destruction of property that characterised the …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced that it would commence the distribution of the Permanent Voter’s Cards (PVCs) to the electorate in Kogi State from November 6 to November 11 while that of Bayelsa State is expected to be between November 13 and 19. The INEC’s Deputy Director …

He cannot forget September 12 in a hurry. It was a Saturday, his peace was shattered the moment operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) invaded his Ikoyi, Lagos, residence and arrested him. His crime? He was being picked up on the allegation of ‘419’, he was told. …

Rivers State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed ‘shock’ over statements credited to the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Governors’ Forum, Rochas Okorocha of Imo State that ‘the APC is hell-bent on taking over Rivers and Akwa Ibom States.’ State Chairman of the PDP, Bro …