More Nigerians have continued to react to President Goodluck Jonathan’s directive to the apex bank to suspend the N5, 000 note scheduled to be introduced in 2013. They expressed their views in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (...
Wife of River State Governor and Founder, Empowerment Support Initiative {ESI}, Dame Judith Amaechi, has promised that she will continue to use her office to promote and encourage education and health care in the state. Speaking at the weekend where sh...
Akwa Ibom Gov. Godswill Akpabio has tasked Traditional Rulers in the state to ensure that there is adequate peace and security in their domain. Akpabio gave the task in Uyo on Saturday during the swearing-in ceremony of the 25th Chairman, Akwa Ibom Sup...
The Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku, has called on public office holders to exhibit the habit of spending government funds judiciously. Maku made the call on Saturday during a tour of the Civil Defence Academy, Abuja, as part of the ongoing Na...
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...