As Nigerians celebrate another yuletide free of fuel queues, JULIET ALOHAN examines strategic efforts by the NNPC at ensuring hitch-free movement across the country by quashing moves by oil marketers to induce artificial product scarcity. Long q...
The Imo government has concluded arrangements to demolish all buildings where Indian hemp and other hard drugs are sold in the state in 2012. The Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Prof. Anthony Anwuka, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ow...
Bloody clashes by rival cult groups in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, have left no fewer than six persons dead. This was just as the newly-posted Commissioner of police, Mr Haruna John, had in a media briefing condemned the spate of cult activities ...
Gov. Saidu Dakingari of Kebbi State yesterday presented a budget proposal of N97.9 billion for the 2012 fiscal year to the State House of Assembly in Kebbi. The N97.9 billion budget estimate is N6.4 billion higher than the 2011 budget of N91.5 billion....
The Sokoto State government yesterday proposed a budget of over N 100.8billion for the 2012 fiscal year . Governor Aliyu Wamakko, who presented the budget proposal to the stateHouse of Assembly at a ceremony in Sokoto, said that the b...
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, yesterday affirmed the decision of the Niger State Election Petition Tribunal which upheld the election of Governor Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu as the winner of the April 26,2011 governorship election in the state...
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has sold N64.56 billion worth of 91-day and 182-day treasury bills yesterday, the bank said in a statement. The statement said that the instruments were sold on Wednesday, December 28.It said that out of the amount, it sol...
Shareholders have overwhelmingly endorsed the new holding structure of the United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, the pan African financial services Group with presence in 19 countries across Africa. At the meeting held in Lagos yesterday, shareholders unan...
DAAR Communications, owners of RAYPOWER FM, AIT, and DAARsat, yesterday announced a turnover of N4.825 billion in its 2010 operations. This is even as the company also disclosed that the federal government was yet to pay the outstanding debt owed it fo...
National operator and the nation’s wholly indigenous telecommunication network, Globacom, has concluded the donation of cash and consumable materials to inmates of 40 orphanages across Nigeria in celebration of the yuletide. The gesture was infor...
In pursuit of its agenda to empower Micro Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (MSME) as the main drivers of the economy, Diamond Bank Plc recently hosted entrepreneurs in Port Harcourt to a capacity building seminar – the 17th in the series since ...
The Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku, on Friday said that the deregulation of the downstream sector would create more jobs and grow the economy. Maku made the observation in Lagos at a one-day seminar on ``Deregulation of Petroleum Sector ...
The Federal Government is set to reverse the dependence on food imports and has projected the addition of 50 million tons of food to the nation’s food supply system between now and 2015. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Akinw...
A 20-year-old technician, Paul Pam, on Friday, appeared before a Jos Magistrates' Court charged with being in possession of dangerous weapons. Pam was arrested by a police patrol team along Gada-biyu area of Jos with a machete and a knife as he tri...
The Osun Command of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) has honoured three officers for their outstanding display of honesty in operational matters. The officers; Messrs Elijah Adesina, Adeola Segun and Isaiah Owoh were honoured for d...