Following the interception of $10 million cash at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, yesterday by a joint team of the State Security Service and the police, the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mrs. Farida Waziri, has … read more
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan’s decisive victory in ruling party primaries makes him clear front-runner for April polls, but local election battles will be more closely fought, raising the prospect of further unrest. Jonathan’s solid win at the People’s Democratic Party … read more
FIFA official Amos Adamu’s three-year ban for seeking bribes during the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding races was upheld Friday by the governing body’s appeals committee. FIFA executive committee colleague Reynald Temarii also lost his appeal of a one-year … read more
More than 6,000 employees of the Nigerian Railway Corporation have begun various training programmes aimed at repositioning the organisation. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the nine-week training programme was going on simultaneously in six centres across the country. … read more
The Federal Government has approved Arik Air as one of Nigeria’s private airlines permitted to fly direct from Abuja to Istanbul starting from June this year. The Minister of Aviation, Fidelia Njeze, said while speaking during President Goodluck Jonathan’s meeting … read more
A radical Islamist sect in northeastern Nigeria threatened an uprising against the government on Wednesday and claimed responsibility for the killing of a prominent local politician last week. Boko Haram, which is behind months of unrest and targeted killings, put … read more
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said on Wednesday he expected lawmakers to approve a sweeping overhaul of the country’s oil industry before the current electoral term ends in May. His comments, however, were the latest in a string of pronouncements by … read more
The inability of Nigerian universities to absorb the high number of secondary school graduates due to its insufficient spaces has been identified as one of the major reasons Nigerians go to study abroad. British Council, Nigeria, at a press conference … read more
In view of the ongoing violent demonstration in Egypt and as directed by President Goodluck Jonathan that all Nigerians in the country be evacuated immediately, the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has chartered a jumbo jet to this effect. NEMA, … read more
Sustaining the progress recorded under the Federal Government amnesty programme for former members of armed militant groups in the Niger Delta is important for lasting peace in the oil producing region. Timi Alaibe, the outgoing special adviser to the president … read more