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The scarcity of aviation fuel also called JET AI which started penultimate week has persisted causing airlines to cancel, delay or reschedule their flights. The scarcity and high price of the product has been a source of concern to airlines and the Nig...
Activities on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange(NSE) continued on the green trajectory, following price gains recorded by major blue chip companies causing market capitalisation to inch up further by N45billion. Specifically, at the&...
The activities of oil pipeline vandals pose potent threat to the successful operation of both the upstream and downstream sectors of the oil and gas industry, the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mr. Austen...
The Federal Government has received a $508.59 million World Bank grant for the control of erosion in worst hit areas across the country. The grant financing LEADERSHIP gathered, would be used to address the problem of gully erosion particularly in Edo,...
MTN Nigeria is set to improve its quality of services (QoS) with $1.4 billion (about N2.17 billion) investment for 2012 as it moves to address the increasing upsurge on data service segment due to use of smart phones and dongles for internet browsing w...
President Goodluck Jonathan has directed that the estimated nine million Almajiris in Northern Nigeria be properly educated in order for them to contribute meaningfully to national development. Minister of State for Education, Mr. Ezenwo Wike, who made...
The Namibian government yesterday extended an invitation to the Nigerian government and its private sector to invest in Windhoek. The Namibian High Commissioner to Nigeria and Ghana, Selma Ashipala-Musavyi who made the call, also urged Nigerians to tak...
A new twist was added in the ongoing probe of the management of the pension fund in Nigeria as the Senate Panel investigating the process yesterday ordered the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar to arrest and produce the Chairman, Pension R...
The Chairman of the Northern Traditional Rulers’ Council, and the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, yesterday recounted the unprecedented challenges facing the Northern region, and concluded that, “the rising trend...
The Federal Government has beamed its search light on contractors handling power transmission and distribution projects across the country with a directive that any them who is unable to meet 50 per cent completion of his contract by June, 2012 w...
Mr David Ige, Executive Director (Gas and Power) at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), on Thursday reiterated the country's resolve to reduce gas flaring in the next two years. He said this at theAnnual Oloibiri Lecture Series of t...
A 25-year-old unemployed man, Abdulrazaq Adeniyi, was on Thursday arraigned over the rape of a nine-year-old pupil. Adeniyi is standing trial before Mrs O.A. Layinka of the Igbosere Chief Magistrates' Court, Lagos, on a one-count charge of unlawful...
The Enugu State Police Command has discovered the bodies of suspected cable vandals in a NITEL manhole at the Ogbete Main Market in the state capital. The Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Ebere Amarizu, told journalists in Enugu on Thursday that the...
President Goodluck Jonathan has directed the minister of works to fix bad roads in the country to reduce accidents and ensure safety. Mr Labaran Maku, the Minister of Information, disclosed this on Thursday at a one-day public lecture organised by the ...
The traditional ruler of Doma in Nasarawa, Alhaji Ahmadu Aliyu-Ogah, has urged the people of the area to cut down on the amount of bride price on their daughters to encourage young suitors. He gave the advice on Thursday while addressing Imams in...