The National and State House of Assembly Election Tribunal sitting in Abeokuta on Monday dismissed the petition filed by former Speaker, House of Representatives Dimeji Bankole of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) rep...
Three soldiers were injured on Monday after a vehicle of the Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order was hit by an Improvised Explosive Devise (IED) at Dalla, Maiduguri. JTF spokesman Lt. Col. Hassan Ifijeh told newsmen in Maiduguri that a ci...
Street trading, which for two years was stopped within Onitsha metropolis, has re-surfaced with the approach of Christmas, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. A NAN correspondent, who went round the commercial city on Monday, observ...
Brig.-Gen. Nnamdi Okore-Affia, the Director-General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), has directed employers of corps members to provide accommodation for them or risk being declared ``unfriendly to the scheme''. The director-general...
The Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) has stated that due to loss of gas, it would be shutting down five power stations to carry out maintenance work. In a statement from the management yesterday, the Nigeria Gas Company Limited (NGC) gave a noti...
Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala recently announces that the country was on the verge of securing a loan of $550 million from the World Bank to revamp the Agricultural Sector and also create jobs for many Nigerians. In this report, Kazeem Akin...
Due to several petitions to the House of Representatives on alleged irregularities in the nationalisation of banks, the Committee on Capital Market and Financial Institutions has disclosed that the matter would be investigated. Chairman of the Committe...
The long awaited implementation of number portability is set to begin with the appointment by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) at the weekend of a consortium of three companies to implement the proposed services in Nigeria. Number portabili...
NICON Insurance Plc has disclosed plans to introduce at least two new insurance products to the insurance market to further maintain its flagship in the insurance industry. The managing director of the company, Mr. Emmanuel Jegede, made the disclosure ...
National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has announced the postponement of annual e-Nigeria conference scheduled to commence today. Director General of NITDA, Cleopas Angaya, who did not give details for the postponement, said it was ...
Panasonic Corporation one of the global leading electronic companies has said it was targeting net sales of about N1.6 trillion ($104.8 billion) at the end of the 2011 current year. The Promoter, Panaserv Nigeria Limited, an authorised service ag...
Death tolls arising from cancer has continued unabated. As the world creates awareness on Breast Cancer this month, WINIFRED OGBEBO reports on the trauma and management of the deadly scourge. Globally, the month of October is used to create aware...
Nigeria marked the anniversary of her 51st Independence from colonial rule last Saturday. The celebrations were unusually very low-keyed. The actual reason for scaling down the celebrations is yet to be known officially, except for a non-committal defe...
Commentators on the intractable crisis in Jos, capital of Plateau state, amazingly including those who come from the state, all seem to fail in getting to the roots of the matter and analysing the situation as dispassionately as humanly possible. While...
A speech delivered by President Goodluck Jonathan at the 50th anniversary of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) and conferment on him of a honorary doctor of laws degree by GIMPA I would like, first of all, to warmly th...