Investors’ wealth in the Dangote Group of companies listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) appreciated last week as Dangote Flour Mills paid a dividend of N1.9 billion for the year ended December 31, 2010. This brought the total dividend pai...
Management of Arik Air said yesterday that it would launch services from Abu Dhabi International Airport next month. Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC) and Nigeria’s largest international carrier said operations would start on Tuesday Novemb...
As Nigeria celebrates, no concrete steps have been taken in the last years to support agriculture, despite the potential of the sector as a means of unlocking the wealth of the land for the benefit of the people, government has failed to give the secto...
The Chief Executive Officer of Power Holding Company of Nigeria(PHCN), Chris Okaa Akamnonu, has promised that the company would optimise electricity power generation to the benefit of the consumers. The PHCN boss gave the assurance while fi...
The Local Content Model being implemented in Nigeria has been adopted by Royal Dutch Shell for use across the company’s global operations. To implement this successfully, Nigerian model, Simbi Wabote, the immediate past Ge...
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senator Bala Mohammed, has commended residents of the capital city for their peaceful conduct and demonstration of patriotism throughout the nation’s 51st independence anniversary celebration. The ...
As, the Nation marks its 51st anniversary, experts in the Science and Technology sector said the sector has recorded some achievements, though need to tackle some challenges. CHINYERE AMALU examines reports. Though celebrated in a low...
The Bayelsa State government set up a special security outfit in 2010 to entrench peace and security in the state. One year later, OSA OKHOMINA writes that the outfit may have been turned into a witch hunt tool against innocent citizens and opposition ...
Sir Victor Umeh is the National Chairman of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA). In this interview with IGHO OYOYO in Abuja, x-rays the country’s political independence anniversary at 51, corruption, party politics, leadership, followership...
Osa Okhomina inYenagoa writes on the scramble for the soul of Sagbama and Ekeremor Local Government Areas of Bayelsa by desperate politicians to oil the re-election of Bayelsa State Governor, Timipre Sylva. When the duo of the Sagbama and Ekeremor Loca...
The International Criminal Court (ICC) yesterday authorised its prosecutor to probe alleged abuses committed during the recent post-election violence in Côte d’Ivoire – the seventh investigation in Africa and the first in a State that is n...
Residents of Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital were yesterday subjected to a harrowing experience when drivers’ unions launched attacks on commuters, motorists and motorcyclists. The suspected hoodlums who claimed to be members of th...
As the battle for the gubernatorial ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party,(PDP), in Adamawa State draws nearer, a frontline gubernatorial aspirant on the platform of the party, Dr. Umar Ardo, has accused Governor Murtala Nyako of mortgagin...
In what appeared to be reminiscent of the famous Aba Women`s Riot of 1929, women of St. Jude’s Catholic church in Ameachi, Awkunanaw, the community of former Senate president, Chief Ken Nnamani yesterday staged a protest over al...
A comprehensive housing scheme for Delta State citizens has kicked off in various parts of the state, Chief Paulinus Akpeki, the State Commissioner for Housing, has said. Akpeki disclosed that in realization of Uduaghan’s three-point agenda, the ...