The National Integrated Power Project (NIPP) was conceived by the former President Olusegun Obasanjo administration in the year 2004 as a fast-track approach to solving the country’s power challenges. Although the project has gulped about $8 bill...
Last Tuesday, Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Ayotunde Philips, freed 233 inmates awaiting trial in both the Medium and Maximum prisons in Kirikiri, Lagos during a visit to the facilities as part of activities marking the start of the 2012/20...
Tunji Tolani is the managing director, Abuja Leasing Company (ALC) Limited. In this interview with DAVID ADUGE-ANI, he spoke on the challenges his company and others businesses are facing in Nigeria, submitting that businesses in the country go through...
Senate president David Mark has said that Kogi State would likely join the league of oil producing states in the country with the discovery of oil in the state. Mark, who stated this in Lokoja yesterday, said he was surprised that the state governor, C...
The inspector-general of police, Mohammed Abubakar, has directed commissioners of police across the country to embark on arrest of motorists who use sirens indiscriminately, saying there is a serious abuse of siren by unauthorised persons. Abubakar, wh...
Worried about the perennial fuel scarcity across the country, the Senate has invited Petroleum Resources Minister, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke and Group Managing Director of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, (NNPC) Mr. Andrew Yakubu, for a co...
The team of police officers who unravelled the gruesome murder of Miss Cynthia Osokogu, the lady who was lured to her death by her Facebook friends, was yesterday rewarded by the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, with promotion to their n...
National chairman of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, has told the party’s members in the United States of America to commence preparations for the 2015 general elections so as to displace the ruling party when the time co...
A 52-year-old man, Mohammed Lawal, was yesterday sentenced to six months imprisonment for picking a senator’s pocket inside a hotel in Abuja. Lawal was said to have pretended to beg for money from his victim, Senator Emmanuel Nkwocha, as the sena...
In order to put a stop to the decay of highways across the country, the federal government has threatened to punish erring contractors by limiting their activities to small lots. Speaking during a meeting with highway contractors in Abuja yesterday, th...
The Civil Liberty Organisation (CLO) has called on the Inspector-General of P olice, Mohammed Abuba ng the murder of a deputy director in the Anambra–Imo River Basin Development Authority, Owerri, Sir Basil Ejezie. He was allegedly clubbed to dea...
The senior special assistant to the president on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Dr. Precious Gbeneol, has warned states and local government councils against undue delay of MDGs funds in banks, with the intent of earning interest on them. Gbeneol...
The aviation agencies comprising Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), have said that the labour unions that disrupted Arik Air’s flight leading to t...
The Benue state Police Command has denied the rumour making the round that a bomb planted opposite the main gate of the police command headquarters in Makurdi was detonated. There were claims on Thursday, that an Audi 80 saloon car with registration nu...
Trouble looms for Minister of Information and Communication, Labaran Maku, over his alleged remarks, which the Senate views as disparaging. To underscore the brewing discord the Senate yesterday summoned him(Maku) to appear before it on Tuesday, Septem...