Nigeria ranked high on implementation of environmental agreements

Abuja - A Kaduna-based environmental legal consultant, Mr Caleb Mutfwang, has ranked Nigeria high in the implementation of environmental multilateral agreements signed by the country.

Mutfwang in Abuja on Tuesday said that Nigeria had achieved a lot in the process of implementing those agreements.

Nokia to sell handset business to Microsoft for $7.2bn

Helsink – Two years after hitching its fate to Microsoft’s Windows Phone software, Nokia collapsed into the arms of the U.S. software giant, agreeing to sell its main handset business for 5.44 billion euros ($7.2 billion).

AGRA: Africa's soils are in trouble, says Jane Karuku

By JIMOH BABATUNDE, Maputo, Mozambique

The President of the Alliance for Green revolution in Africa (AGRA), Jane Karuku, has said that for Africa to be able to feed itself and  for its farm produce to be competitive in international market there is  need to use both organic and inorganic fertilizer.

Critical assets under threat, says Jonathan

By VICTORIA OJEME

Nigeria’s substantial investments and critical infrastructure are under threat of the actions of terrorists, vandals and saboteurs, President Goodluck Jonathan has said.

Jonathan expressed the concern, yesterday, in Abuja while declaring open a two-day stakeholders’ forum on the protection of Critical National Assets and Infrastructure, CNAI.

Woman arrested for dumping baby in toilet

Dutse - The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Jigawa on Tuesday arrested a 23-year-old woman for allegedly dumping her new born baby boy in a toilet in Hadeja town of Hadejia Local Government Area of the state.

Abortion saga: Rochas Okorocha bows

BY CHIDI NKWOPARA

OWERRI – Governor Rochas Okorocha Tuesdday, bowed to he superior fire power of the fiery Catholic Archbishop of Owerri Ecclesiastical Province, His Grace, Dr. Anthony J. V. Obinna, over the obnoxious abortion law.

Nigerian vigilantes take on Islamic extremists

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — The battered old car, cutlasses and nail-studded clubs poking out of its windows, careens down the road and squeals to a stop. Its young occupants pile out, shouting with glee, and set up a roadblock.