There was a mild drama on Wednesday in Kaduna when some youth attacked men of the State Fire Service who came to put off the fire that engulfed an Oando Filling station located around Angwan Sariki bus stop in the state metropolis. LEADE...
The Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on Tuesday in Lagos said the removal of oil subsidy would strengthen investors’ confidence in the capital market. She said this at a forum organised by the Nigeria Economic Summit Group (NESG) with...
The National Chairman of the Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC), Chief Osita Okereke, has advised President Goodluck Jonathan to make peace with aggrieved political parties to strengthen the nation's democracy. Okereke gave the advice in Abuja at ...
About six billion Naira is being spent on sugar importation in Nigeria to supplement the sugar needs of the country, the Benue State Commissioner for Agriculture, Dr Eugene Aliegba, has said. He stated this on Tuesday in Makurdi at the National Sugar D...
Hessington Okolo, a lawyer by training and President, National Association of Ndokwa Youth Congress, the umbrella youth organisation for Ndokwa people, the second largest ethnic group in Delta State, in this interview with JULIET ALOHAN, narrates the o...
The State Governor, Senator Liyel Imoke, has pleaded with the United Nations to pay greater attention to issues of Bakassi resettlement with a view to ameliorating the sufferings of displaced persons in the area. Imoke made the plea in Cala...
Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has called on women to champion the campaign against the rising crime rate in the nation. Okorocha, who made this call at the annual Imo Women Day celebration held at the Dan Anyiam Stadium, Owerri, remarked that yo...
The year 2011 is gradually coming to an end and the energy sector is still entangled in one controversy or the other. Despite its ambitious economic development programmes aimed at placing the country in the league of twenty most developed economies in...
Nigeria as an agrarian country has over the years been unable to put in place adequate and up to date information of its farmers across the country, a situation that has brought little result to enormous government efforts to revitalise the sector as r...
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, has disclosed the commission’s plans to canvass the establishment of an Electoral Offences Tribunal (EOT). Prof Jega disclosed this in Abuja yesterday he r...
The House of Representatives is collaborating with the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) to ensure that operating and service companies in Nigeria comply with provisions of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development A...
Nigeria league champion Royal Hoopers basketball club of Port Harcourt yesterday recorded it first win in the 26th FIBA Africa Champions Cup for Men. It recorded a 111-42 points win over Malabo Kings of Equatorial Guinea to finish in the eleventh posit...
The House of Representatives yesterday approved the 2011 budget of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) with an addition of N11.5 billion to the N249.5billion requested by President Goodluck Jonathan. This is just as the National Assembly has ...
Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Adeyemi Ikuforiji, got a reprieve last week as Justice James Tsoho of the Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos, vacated his earlier bench warrant empowering the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission...
The Chairman of Sheikh Abubakar Gumi Central Market Union, Kaduna, Alhaji Adamu Usman Maishinkafa, has lauded Vice President Namadi Sambo’s commitment towards peace, unity and development in the North. Usman Maishinkafa, in an interactive session...