The World Bank-led Global Gas Flaring Reduction (GGFR) partnership today called on oil producers, both countries and companies, to reduce flaring of natural gas associated with oil production by 30% by 2017. This would reduce flaring from 140 bcm of ga...
The ongoing Fourth Commonwealth Public Service Ministers Forum which will run through October 26 in New Delhi, India, is aimed at enhancing public policy to foster economic growth and employment. The gathering will examine ways in which the publ...
The Speaker, Benue State House of Assembly, Mr David Iorhemba, has called on the people of the state to support the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan. He made the call on Wednesday in Makurdi while speaking with newsmen on the visit o...
Lebanon's anti-Syrian opposition intensified its calls on Wednesday for replacing the government as U.S. warned of a power vacuum in the country. We don't want to see a vacuum of legitimate political authority that could then be taken advantage...
Mr Mohammed Abubakar, the Inspector General of Police, on Wednesday in Abuja assured Nigerians that the police would do everything within its power to ensure peaceful Eid-el-Kabir celebration. This is contained in a statement issued in Abuja and ...
The Director-General, National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Dr Paul Orhi, on Wednesday, said that over 50 per cent of medicines were prescribed inappropriately by unauthorised persons. Orhi, represented by Mrs Maureen ...
The Enugu State Governor, Mr Sullivan Chime, has called on medical practitioners to check quackery in their profession to maintain a good record. Chime made the call in Enugu on Wednesday while declaring open the 2012 physicians’ week of the Nige...
The Anambra Police Command has arrested the Principal of St. John of God Secondary School, Awka, Mrs Phil Odenigbo, and a teacher, Mrs Njideka Imoka, over the death of a student, Chidimma Ukachukwu. The spokesman of the command, Mr Ralph Uzoigwe, annou...
Mrs Priscillia Shu, the Executive Director of RemaCare Integrated Centre, a Port Harcourt-based NGO, has called for the distribution of condoms and treated mosquito nets at flood victims camps. Shu told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Port Harcourt...
The management of NNPC has dissociated itself from the allegation of exporting crude oil using forged export clearance permit. This is contained in a statement issued by Mr Fidel Pepple, the acting Group General Manager, Public Affairs Division of the ...
Nigerian pilgrims on Wednesday join millions of pilgrims worldwide trooping to Muna for Arafat day which comes up tomorrow, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Arafat day marks the beginning of Hajj 2012 activities. NAN reports that pilgrims star...
The price of petrol has risen to N120 per litre in parts of Kwara against the official price of N97, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. A correspondent of NAN reports that the price prevailed at the Total petrol station in Offa, MRS and Total in...
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday in Abuja approved the Nigeria National Pharmacovigilance Policy aimed at monitoring and managing the adverse effects of drugs. The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, made this known while briefi...
The Head of the Adamawa State Civil Service, Malam Musa Kaibo, said on Wednesday in Yola that over 900 civil servants in the state had taken the oath of secrecy. Kaibo who made the announcement while opening a two-day workshop for civil servants from g...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said on Wednesday in Abuja that it had stepped up supply and distribution of petroleum products across the country ahead of the Eid-el-Kabir celebration. Mr Fidel Pepple, acting Group General Manager, ...