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THE Trade Union Congress (TUC) and other affiliates have advised the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to ensure a hitch-free conduct of the election rescheduled for March 12. Speaking with the News Agency

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday in Lagos assured Nigerians of routing the Boko Haram sect as he inaugurated four of the Nigerian Navy Ships (NNS). “Let me use this platform to promise

A TOTAL of 158 Women and children abducted by Boko Haram insurgents from Katarko village in Yobe have been reunited with their families in Damaturu, Yobe. The victims were released by the

THE Federal Government on Thursday deployed 32 volunteers to Tanzania to assist its education sector under the Technical Aid Corps (TAC) scheme for the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. The Director-General of

NIGERIANS have attributed the late equaliser by the Golden Eaglets against their Guinean counterparts as an indication of the team’s zeal to excel at the ongoing African Youth Championships. The U-17 national

PROF Simon Ugwu, former Dean of Faculty of Agriculture, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, on Thursday urged farmers not to rush into planting with the first rain. Ugwu told the News Agency of

THREE people have been feared killed following attacks in Mangu and Barkin-Ladi local government areas of Plateau State. Local sources said apart from the dead, seven other victims of the attacks sustained

BOKO Haram militants suffered heavy casualties when Chadian troops pushed into Nigeria this week, residents who fled the fighting told AFP on Thursday. Chad’s army said on Tuesday evening that they had

MR. YOMI Kolawole, Managing Director of Topean Energy Solution Ltd, Lagos, on Thursday urged the Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) to minimise the nation’s property loss by standardising imported electrical equipment. Kolawole

SOME of the victims of the fire that gutted parts of Balogun and Berlin markets, Lagos, on Thursday decried the outrageous rent demanded by estate agents for available spaces in the market.