Alhaji Adamu Ahmad, Comptroller of Customs for Borno and Yobe Commands, was on Tuesday night killed by unidentified persons in Potiskum, Yobe, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The Commissioner of Police in Yobe, Alhaji Lawal Tanko, confirmed t...
Ambassador Adamu Waziri (CON) a founding member of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) and a former minister of the federal republic observes that all is not well with the party. As one of the contestants for the office of the national chai...
Last week, members of the House of Representatives were divided across party lines over purported moves by the leadership of the House to scuttle plans for the convocation of a Sovereign National Conference (SNC). Chairman of the House Committee on Med...
Abdullahi Zuru, a special assistant to the governorship candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Kebbi State, Abubakar Malam, in this rare interview with Chibuzo Ukaibe in Abuja, opens up on the ruling of the Supreme Court which dethrone...
Women who sit for up to seven hours a day may be more at risk of developing type two diabetes, new research shows. It found women who spend the most time sitting down during the week are more likely to show early signs of the disease than those who are...
For about two months now the residents of Federal Civil Services` Residential Quarters have been groaning under the weight of poor electricity supply caused by overloaded transformer, Nick Udenta writes. The Federal Civil Servants` Resident...
Nigerians are known to be very hard working people. There is no part of the world that you won’t find one or two artisans doing what they know how to do best. Anthony Ada Abraham spoke to some traders in a random sampling and how they are a...
Jackie Terhemba is a jobless Nigerian who wants government to create jobs for Nigerians youths. According to her, “I am tired of jumping from one menial job to the other just to survive. The time has come for government to do something on e...
The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), has attributed road accidents to the misuse of various drugs by road users. The commission made this disclosure yesterday at the launching of the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFD...
Chrome Group, one of the major players in the oil and gas sector in Nigeria, has acquired new anchor vessels for onshore-offshore and deep water oil and gas services. The vessels were acquired through one of its subsidiaries, Kaztec Engineering Limited...
As part of measures to ensure complete transparency and effectiveness in the operations and management of the nation’s downstream oil and gas sector, the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulation Agency (PPPRA) and the Department of Petroleum Resourc...
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has said Nigeria will not attain zero gas flaring but would in the nearest future reduce the volume of gas being flared, particularly when the necessary legislative framework is put in place. According ...
The Satellite Depot under the Western Zone of Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) in Lagos has commenced sales of kerosene at N50 per litre in their filling stations to Lagos residents. LEADERSHIP checks on the sales of the p...
Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, has again raised the bar in internet banking with an upgrade of its internet banking platform. According to the bank’s Managing Director, Mr. Segun Agbaje, the recent upgrade will enable customers use the GTBank internet ...
The federal government has said that the extension of the PHCN privatisation process to October this year was necessitated by the need to ensure transparency and thoroughness in the bids submitted so far. The Minister of State for Power, Mr Dariu...