Every September 13 has been set aside by the African Union to commemorate the African Day for Technology and Intellectual Property (IP). Nigeria joined the rest of Africa to celebrate this day, which indicates the great importance it and other African ...
Handling shylock landlords has proven to be a great challenge to tenants in Lagos State, as apart from charging exorbitant tenancy rates, the payment options were generally unfavourable to the tenants. Thus, it was a day of joy for tenants when the Lag...
The National president National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Alhaji Usman Yasin, says he is on a mission to rebrand the union. He however identifies key intervention areas the government can wade into, to transform the transport sector. He ...
On September 12, 2011, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, in a televised media chat with four senior journalists responded to a wide range of burning national issues. Stella Din (Silverbird TV), Tukur Abdulrahman (New Nigerian), Wole Laoye (Daily Trust...
Mr. Emmanuel Bello is the Information Commissioner in Taraba State. In this interview with John Mkom, Bello gives a pass mark to Governor Danbaba Suntai and justifies the sack and arrest of the governor’s aide, Mr. Kabiru Dodo. What is your gener...
The Kuje Divisional Police Headquarters has confirmed the arrest of two men, Sunday Kadani and Peter Audu, over the death of an 11-year-old girl, Joy Sunday. The Divisional Police Officer (DPO), CSP Danladi Isa, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in...
The minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senator Bala Mohammed said that mass housing development in the FCT would no longer be an all-comers affair, as only genuine investors with proof of genuine capacity to finance and develop such proje...
The Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC) yesterday demolished an illegal informal market in front of Lugbe Federal Housing Authority (FHA). The demolition of the market is in continuation of the “Clean and Green Greater Abuja” sanit...
Benue State Governor, Gabriel Suswam has unveiled the investment opportunities in the state with an assurance that his administration would not relent in its efforts to create enabling environment for both local and foreign investors seeking for invest...
All Kaduna State-owned hospitals as well as commercial banks in parts of the state were yesterday shut down following an indefinite strike embarked upon by civil servants over the non-implementation of the minimum wage by the state government. The pers...
Benue State governor, Mr. Gabriel Suswam, and his counterparts Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers), Ibrahim Shehu Shema (Katsina), Liyel Imoke (Cross River), Rochas Okorocha (Imo) and Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun) will today present Nigeria business and development oppor...
President Goodluck Jonathan will leave Abuja for New York on Monday to join other world leaders where they will be addressing the 66th General Assembly of the United Nations (UN). The President, who is among over 30 world leaders that will be speaking ...
The minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senator Bala Mohammed, has said that only 15 per cent of the territory has been developed, after over 35 years of its existence and has attributed it to the astronomical population growth of the city...
The chairman of Kuje area council, Mr. Danladi Zhin has called for the recognition of traditional rulers in the country as a mark of respect for indigenous cultures and tradition of Nigerians. Zhin who made this known to newsmen at a workshop on capaci...
A National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, Dr. Okonkwo Nnemeka, has rehabilitated a long abandoned water borehole and has also provided a local water well to Gbessa Community in Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC). The corps member also donated writ...