Mr Chinedu Eze, reporter with Thisday Newspaper resides in Lagos. He was in the nation`s capital, Abuja for an assignment at the National Assembly in 2008. From the airport, He picked up a taxi to the National Assembly Complex and on alighting from the...
The Naira shed weight at the official and interbank market yesterday following the easing of the Net Open Position (NOP) of banks by the Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN), closing N150.01 and N160.20 respectively.The CBN had on Friday increased the NOP from...
The World Bank projects in various sectors of the economy in Nigeria have hit over $4 billion, MS Marie-Françoise Marie-Nelly, the bank’s country representative in Nigeria said yesterday in Abuja.Addressing journalists on the bank’s ...
Nigerian Stock Exchange(NSE) yesterday unveiled the New Gold Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) for investors just as a South African firm, ABSA Capital in synergy with Vetiva Capital Management Limited has concluded arrangement to float the gold-b...
Contrary to claims by Power Holding Company Of Nigeria (PHCN) that electricity supply and its billing system have improved, facts on ground indicate that a consumers are being ripped –off by the company.LEADERSHIP investigations revealed that som...
The Sokoto State police command has paraded 11 thugs arrested by its officers and men during the visit of Senator Abubakar Gada to the state on Sunday.The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP Almustapha Sani, who could not disclose the camp the ...
The Governor of Bauchi State, Malam Isa Yuguda, yesterday signed the contract for the proposed Bauchi State International Airport worth N7.9 billion.The state commissioner of special duties, Alhaji Bappha Azare, who signed the contract on behalf of the...
The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in Adamawa State has endorsed retired Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa as the party’s candidate for the governorship election scheduled for January 2012, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.Marwa’s endors...
The Minister of State for Education, Mr. Ezenwo Wike, has said that the Federal Government has awarded contracts for the Almajiri school project in 19 states. Wike told journalists in Yola yesterday that contractors would be mob...
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Kwara has said that it will appeal the verdict of the Election Petitions Tribunal on Kwara South Senatorial District.The party said this in a statement issued in Ilorin sitting in Ilorin, ...
President Goodluck Jonathan has charged Nigerian universities to key into the transformation agenda of the federal government.Jonathan gave the charge yesterday in his address at the 27th convocation ceremony of the University of Ilorin.He said with 11...
Kogi State Governor Ibrahim Idris is to lead the campaign of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the December gubernatorial election with Prince Olusola Akanmode emerging as director-general.The governor, who disclosed this at the Government Ho...
There are many predictions about how the world will end. The two dominant religions in the world- Islam and Christianity- believe that when the end time is near, a lot of strange things such as wars, killings, rituals, pestilence and violence will be o...
The chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) and Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi, has said that although the federal government has the right to institute the Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF), states should be given the latitude to access ...
The failure of the minister of finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to honour the invitation of the House of Representatives investigative hearing committee on the alleged non-remittance of N450 billion by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)...