Following stringent measures put in place in the management of fuel importation to check corruption in the payment of fuel subsidy claims, the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) has said that the federal government has between January...
The federal government, under the Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA), has established a network of one-stop-shop agro-input centres to ensure the availability, accessibility and affordability of agricultural inputs, as well as serve as singular a...
The Managing Director and Chief Executive of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), Umaru Ibrahim, has revealed that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank would be using the existence and capacity of deposit insurance as a...
Bauchi State Governor Isa Yuguda has presented an appropriation bill of N137, 342, 108, 137 billion to the State House of Assembly for approval as the 2013 budget. Making the presentation yesterday, the governor explained that the sum was for both capi...
A Federal High Court in Abuja, yesterday, adjourned judgement indefinitely in the suit filed by a faction of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in Katsina State challenging the withdrawal of their certificates of return by the Independent ...
The Club Bar and Restaurant Awards 2012 holds at the Landmark Events, Victoria Island, Eti Osa, Lagos on Wednesday December 12, 2012.
MOTHERLAN' presents "Omo Jayejaye" from Lagbaja's new album - 200 Million Mumu (The Bitter Truth), Directed by Gbenga Salu.
The Governor of Niger State,Dr. Muazu Babngida Aliyu has said that the state government would use agro products to accelerate the economic development of the state. Aliyu represented yesterday by the Deputy Governor, Hon Ahmed Musa Ibeto at the Nationa...
The Will of Ikemba Nnewi and Ezeigbo Gburu-gburu, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu which was read weekend before members of his family at the probate registry of the Enugu state High Court has been described as sacrosanct. This assertion was made in a p...
Executive Secretary National Human Rights Commission, Professor Bem Angwe, has observed that 70 percent of inmates in Nigerian prisons have no business there because they are awaiting trial. He made this observation in Sokoto, yesterday, at a sensitisa...
Stakeholders in the rice milling and distribution chain in Nigeria have raised an alarm over what they described as increasing wave of smuggling of the commodity into the country, worth as much as N1.7billion monthly. The stakeholders, who spoke under ...
Sunshine Stars of Akure head coach, Samuel Abimbola has expressed optimism that the team would surely pick a ticket to play in the continent at the end of the 2012/2013 Nigeria Premier League season kickoff soon. Speaking ahead of the preseason t...
In this interview with DONATUS NADI, Nasarawa State Governor, Umaru Tanko Almakura, speaks on how the nation’s governance is not serving the common man well. He also discusses the contentious issue of retirement pension, saying it has...
The National Chairman of Nigeria Beach Volleyball Federation, Engr. Musa Nimrod has fingered low patronage in the sport as the reason for its slow growth. He stated that until the government and relevant authorities concerned see sport as a viable econ...
Former minister of education, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili has charged sports administrators in the country to stop politicizing the sector if Nigeria must regain its lost glory in the world of sports. Speaking at the public presentation of TEAP FC, an Abuja bas...