President Goodluck Jonathan has thrown his weight behind strong local government administration saying the third tier of government provides an opportunity for effective service delivery. Speaking in Kampala, Uganda at the 2013 Commonwealth Local Government Conference, President Jonathan who was represented by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs, Winifred Oyo-It ...

The Federal Ministry of Health has called on Nigerians and government at all levels to support efforts for the eradication of Guinea Worm in a bid to aid the certification of Nigeria as a Guinea Worm free country. This call was made by the national coordinator of the Nigeria Guinea Worm Eradication Programme, (NIGEP), Mrs Ifeoma Anagbogu  in Abeokuta, Ogun state capital at a sensitization programme on the d ...

Ahead of the forthcoming Anambra governorship election in November and the 2015 general elections, the leader of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Victor Umeh has set up a rebuilding and crisis review committee. Relying on his recent victory at the appellate court, Chief Umeh named a 20 man committee to rebuild the party. APGA has been enmeshed in a leadership crisis following the ruling of an E ...

The Special Forces deployed to rid the nation of any act of terrorism that has been rocking the northern region of the country has apprehended 65 persons confirmed to be terrorists, attempting to infiltrate Maiduguri while fleeing from various camps now under attack by the Special Forces deployed after President Goodluck Jonathan declared State of Emergency on three northern States that were fast becoming t ...

Four persons have been reported dead as a building situated at Agbama Housing Estate, Umuahia collapsed leaving other casualties critically injured. Residents in the area had to begin rescue mission as the injured were taken to the Federal medical centre in Umuahia. Eye witnesses said that the building was under reconstruction and gave a little account of what happened while one of the surviving site worker ...

A 27 year old South African man Mjabulo Nyawo has been sentenced to two life sentences in the Empangeni Regional Court for raping two girls aged 3 years and 9 years respectively. According to testimony, in October 2011 the two little girls were sent to the accused to get a phone charger by their aunty. Getting there, the girls got into Nyawo house and he raped both girls before giving them the charger to ta ...

President Goodluck Jonathan has commissioned the remodeled Akanu Ibiam airport in Enugu State, South East of Nigeria earlier today Arriving at the Coal City at about 11:30am this morning, the President was accompanied by the Senate Chairman committee on Aviation; Hope Uzodinma, the Minister of Information Labaran Maku, Minister of Works and some other Ministers of the Federal republic of Nigeria. And on han ...

In order to sustain special operations in the face of the recent Boko Haram attack in some areas in the Maiduguri metropolis, the Military Joint Task Force (JTF) in Borno State has imposed an indefinite 24-hour curfew in 12 wards of Maiduguri metropolis, according to a statement issued today by the spokesman of the JTF; Lieutenant Sagir Musa. The affected wards are:  Gamboru, Mairi Kuwait, Bakin Kogi, Kasuw ...

Greece's parliament evicted a far-right lawmaker of the Golden Dawn Party for insulting other deputies during a debate on a racism bill today, the first time in 20 years that a member of parliament has been evicted. The move prompted jeers of "Heil Hitler" from a leftist party deputy in the chamber. Tapping into resentment over budget cuts and illegal immigration in the crisis-hit country, Golden Dawn has e ...

Argentina's first military dictator, Jorge Rafael Videla, has died today at the age of 87. The Argentine military dictator, who according to report killed thousands of dissidents from 1976 to 1983 died of natural causes while serving a sentence for human rights crimes. Unrepentant till death concerning the kidnappings and murders ordered by the state, Videla accompanied by Emilio Massera and Orlando Agosti, ...