In its bid to reduce the rate of crime in the country, the Zone X1 of the Nigeria Police Force in conjunction with an Abuja-based security firm,Absolute Security and Consultancy Services Limited, has trained no fewer than 300 members of the...
hairmen of Local Councils in Ondo State have joined various groups in the state calling on the people to support the state Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko for a second term in office. The council leaders under the aegis of Association of Local Government...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed Feb. 11, for the conduct of the re-run election in Dogo-Agogo polling unit of Jos North/Bassa Federal Constituency. Mr Bencyn Ikpe, INEC Chief Public Affairs Officer in Plateau State, discl...
Lawmakers at the Delta State House of Assembly have appealed to the State Commissioner of Police, Mamman Ibrahim Tsafe and Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan to look into the clash between herdsmen and Ohor and Agdamam communities, Ughelli North Lo...
The Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta, code-named Operation Pulo Shield, yesterday announced the arrest of seven persons suspected to be crude oil thieves in Bayelsa State. The suspects, according to the JTF, were nabbed by operatives during a ...
A Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday joined the former governor of Bayelsa state, Timpriye Sylva as the second defendant in the suit filed by Seriake Dickson praying it to declare him the lawful standard bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ...
Sokoto State Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Adisa Bolanta,yesterday appealed to the people to desist from spreading false information about alleged security threat to the state. Bolanta told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in S...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is ready for the conduct of bye-election into Mashi constituency of Katsina State Assembly, Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) Umar Wara, has said. The Mashi seat became vacant following the death...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday changed its earlier position by informing a Federal High Court in Abuja that the April 2011 general elections were manually conducted. INEC had, at the Presidential Election Petition Tribun...
A Federal High Court sitting in Kaduna yesterday denied the bail application of the suspected gunrunner, former National Treasurer of Petroleum Tanker Drivers Association, Alhaji Nuhu Marafa, and his son, Musa. The court said the application would not ...
Perhaps the biggest challenge facing the even development of Nigerian tourism is the ambivalent disposition of state and local governments to the sector. Not even the fact that with a few millions of naira ecotourism potentials in most, if not all the ...
The Senate and House of Representatives Committees on Petroleum Upstream, Downstream and Gas Development yesterday queried the N30b recurrent expenditures of the parastatals under the Ministry of Petroleum Resources. Of particular concern to the lawmak...
The naira strengthened against the United States Dollar on the interbank market yesterday after the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) sold about $150 million to some lenders, boosting dollar liquidity in the market. The result was that the...
The Central Bankof Nigeria plans to auction treasury bills worth N149.27 billion ($926.42 million) at its regular debt auction next week, the central bank said on Thursday. The regulator said it would sell N49.27 billion in a 91-day paper , N50 billion...
Intrigues and counter accusation among the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) are causing a mild rift between Western Zone of IPMAN and its national body. While the national chairman told the House of Representatives that it...