Nigeria

The federal government is proposing a budget of N517.9 Million this year for food and refreshments for the presidency, as well as �the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, ministries of power and petroleum and their parastatals.” The N517.9 Million is said to be 42.9% (about ...

The Hyderabad police in India on Saturday January 3rd arrested four Nigerians including a woman over internet fraud. The police said they recovered a car, money and mobile phones from them The accused, Peter Austin (29), Eboh Felix (26), Steffi Ebohon (24) and Uzaonicha Daniel Iwenwanne (26), reportedly contacted a ...

The Federal Government has declared January 2nd 2015 as public holiday to mark Eid el Maloud celebration. In a statement released today by the Minister of Interior affairs, Abba Moro, the Federal government asked Muslim faithfuls to offer prayers to God for the peace and Unity of Nigeria.

Report by Declan Eytan for Forbes magazine Illusionists flown in from Spain, flowers imported from France, or an R&B superstar flown in from the United States. No request seems to be out of line to Nigeria’s rich when it comes to the most beautiful day of their life. And don’t ...

In the morning, published a story about the gruesome murder of Rose Aifuwa. an Austrian based woman in Benin. (Read Here) She was allegedly killed by her lover ,a spare parts dealer named Festus Aimufua pictured above. According to PMnews….Rose Aifuwa‎, who returned home for the Christmas and New Year ...

He was barely one year old when his parents neglected him and parted ways after a serious fight, simply because he was an albino, a rare breed that was contrary to what they had both expected. Forty years after, Mr. Abdullahi Obafemi, has yet to recover from the painful knowledge ...

Nigeria’s foreign reserve has depreciated by $544million in the last one week. According to Daily Independent, figures posted on the website of the Central Bank of Nigeria CBN shows the nation’s foreign reserves stood at $35,740,495,640 as at December 11, but fell to $35,196,352,296 as at last week, December 18. ...

A Nigerian tissue seller is being praised in Spain as a good Samaritan after he returned 16 thousand Euros he found in a briefcase that fell from a car. 35 year old Peter Angelina, who makes a living selling tissue paper at a traffic light junction at the corner of ...

These two are both popular artiste are single, they are having a conversation on groupies they slept with… Can you guess who?

The United Nations revealed that, the infected UN peacekeeper was tested positive to the disease on Wednesday, December 3, 2014 and the diagnosis was announced by the organization the next day. UN said the infected soldier will be flown to Netherlands for treatment. Inge Freriksen, a spokesperson for the Dutch ...

The United States has announced the cancellation of the training of a battalion of the Nigeria Army, at the request of the Federal Government. It said that the first two phases of the training were conducted between April and August, 2014, noting that it had provided untrained civilian with basic ...

The Federal Executive Council yesterday approved the purchase of N9.2bn worth of cooking stoves and ‘wonder bags’ for rural women under the National Clean Cooking Scheme. Speaking with state house correspondence after the FEC meeting, the Supervising Minister of Information, Dr. Nurudeen Muhammed said the scheme which is a federal ...

Nigerians in Uyo pictured struggling to buy the N500 ticket for the Nigeria-South Africa match happening in Uyo, Akwa Ibom this evening.

Following the continued drop in oil price in international market, the Federal government yesterday announced the introduction of some austerity measures such as tax introduction on luxury goods such as champagne, jets, amongst other, to be implemented to reduce the effect of the continued oil price decline on the Nigerian ...

The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, a body of Nigerian priest, paid a visit to Pres. Jonathan yesterday at the State House to express concern over increasing attacks by Boko Haram members in the North East. The groups president and Archbishop of Jos diocese, Bishop Ignatius Kaigama, who spoke with ...

The Body of Benchers, whose responsibility is to admit and call successful students of the Nigerian Law School to the bar, has warned Nigerians to desist from begging for the students who failed their final Bar examination. The Nigerian Law School had recorded mass failure in her 2013/2014 final Bar ...

The Director General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), Professor John Idoko, announced that about 3.2 million Nigerians are living with the HIV virus but that about 40% of that number are not aware of their status. He said this at the 2014 NACA/MDG medical outreach ...

A surprising country�has�topped Google’s rankings for searching for pictures of gay sex. Anti-gay laws and strong social stigma appear to be doing nothing to abate the curiosity of everyday people�� with Kenya’s searches for gay sex outranking those of all Western countries. Kenya�tops the Google trends rankings for both ‘gay ...

An 11 year old girl was gang-raped in Obowo local council area of Imo State.The ugly incident happened when the girl known as Ngozi (surname withheld) was sent by her�parents to buy a few of their food needs from the popular Onuimo Rescue Market, Umungwa, Obowo. Vanguard was also told ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is hoping to announce later on this week that Nigeria and Senegal are free of Ebola after 42 days with no infections. The 42 days is the standard period for declaring an outbreak over, twice the maximum 21-day incubation period of the virus. � According ...