Human Interest

Social media and instant messaging applications Facebook and Whatsapp will no longer be available to users of Blackberry, Nokia and Windows phones by the end of 2016.Whatsapp, an instant messaging application owned by Facebook, was the first to make the announcement after it celebrated the seventh year of it’s existence …

  More than 70 outdoor advertising companies contracted to handle the Ambode/Buhari campaign billboards in Lagos are still waiting to get paid their dues from the APC, with practitioners revealing that they are enduring a choking debt burden. “The companies that ensured that Buhari and Ambode billboards took over 95% …

The Nigeria Police Service Commission (PSC) has begin the recruitment of new personel into its fold,as it warned that there would be no short-cut in the recruitment of 10,000 personnel.. In a statement Wednesday, Ikechukwu Ani, Head, Press and Public Relations of the commission, told journalists that Mike Okiro, Chairman …

The Academic Board of the Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH) has expelled six final year students for presenting fake or altered National Diploma (ND) and National Certificate of Education (NCE) results for admission. The expulsion notice is contained in a circular signed by Mrs Taiwo Obadimu, the Deputy Registrar of the …

​Manchester City’s Samir Nasri just can’t seem to catch a break of late after the injury-ridden midfielder had his Lamborghini Aventador impounded by the Greater Manchester Police. ​Manchester City’s Samir Nasri just can’t seem to catch a break of late –  the injury-ridden midfielder had his Lamborghini Aventador impounded by …

ORGANISED Labour on Wednesday raised alarm that the food, beverage and tobacco sector of the nation’s economy was on the verge of shutting down and that over three million jobs were at risk due to the inability of companies to source foreign exchange for raw material importation to facilitate operations. …

  The Senate has passed the 2016 budget, with an unprecedented reduction in the budget’s total. President Muhammadu Buhari presented a N6.08 trillion proposal in December 2015. The Senate passed N6,060,677,358,227 trillion budget after considering its conference report on the budget. It was the first time since 1999 that the …

The Federal Government, Tuesday, vowed to punish accordingly the perpetrators of violence in the bye-election conducted last weekend in Rivers state. The Minister of Youth and Sports, Bar. Solomon Dalung, who blamed the violence on politicians, who refused to play the game according to the rules, described the crisis as …

Islamic State Militants were responsible for Tuesday’s attacks on Brussels International Airport, the extremist group’s Amaq Agency has said. Amaq, one of the group’s multiple media outlets, said that Islamic State fighters, opened fire inside the Belgian capital’s Zaventen airport before detonating suicide bomb while one suicide attacker targeted the …

The Minister of State for Education, Prof. Anthony Anwukah, has constituted a panel to investigate alleged sexual assault on a female student of Queens College, Lagos by a male teacher. Mr Ben Bem Goong, the Director of Press, Federal Ministry of Education, in a statement on Monday in Abuja, said …