Super Eagles head coach, Samson Siasia is expected to recall Peter Osaze Odemwingie and Ekigho Ehiosun when he announces the squad to face Guinea in a 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier next week. The same squad for the Cup of Nations qualifie...
The Chairman of Heir Holdings and former Group Managing Director of United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc,has emerged as chairman, board of directors of Transnational Corporation of Nigeria(Transcorp),Abuja. Shareholders...
The Minister of Trade and Investment, Olusegun Aganga, has reiterated the present administration’s commitment to grow and develop the nation’s textile sector in view of the comparative advantage it has in this area. The m...
After a day rise in the market indices on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE),Wednesday, trading activities returned to the trenches yesterday as losses by some highly capitalised stocks resulted in market indices depleting by N13 billion. The mar...
Incompetent and ineffective electricity distribution companies (Discos) would be excluded from participating in the new electricity tariff regime scheduled to be announced in January 2012, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has said....
Residents living close to an abandoned road project at the famous Obafemi Awolowo Way, Airport Junction , Life Camp, Abuja, have continued to decry the nightmarish traffic congestion along the route. Some residents and motorists plyi...
No fewer than 845 ‘ghost’ workers have been discovered in the Nasarawa Civil Service, with 325 other staff found to have overstayed.This is contained in a report of a screening, verification and computerisation of payroll and personnel reco...
The Commissioner of Police in Plateau State , Mr Dipo Ayeni, has appealed to the State House of Assembly to legislate on vigilance groups to stem recurring attacks on rural communities. Ayeni made the suggestion yesterday in Jos when he received...
There was confusion yesterday at the home council of the Former Presidential Adviser on Niger Delta, Mr. Timi Alaibe, following the verdict of a Yenagoa High Court nullifying the removal of the Chairman, Kolokuma/ Opokuma local government council, Chie...
The Imo State workers has begun an indefinite strike to press home their demand for the state government to effect the N18,000 minimum wage following the refusal of the state authorities to keep their own side of the bargain. A...
The House of Representatives has summoned the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Gbenga Ashiru, asking him to appear before the House to brief lawmakers on concrete measures put in place to protect Nigerians in Libya and secure their e...
The Court of Appeal in Calabar yesterday upheld the election of Akwa Ibom State Governor Godswill Akpbabio and dismissed an appeal by the governorship candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the April 26, 2011 poll ...
Gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram have shot dead a retired civil servant with the Ramat Polytechnic in Maiduguri , Yakubu Iliya (67) and Turmda Malgwi (46) and a 22-year- old person in Bulunkutu Ward of Maiduguri Metr...
Former Lagos State governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu has denied having any link with the dreaded al Qaeda terrorist network.In a chat with an online publication, Tinubu, who is also the leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), dismissed the claim conta...
In a bid to revamp failed privatised enterprises in the country, the Senate Ad-hoc Committee on Privatisation yesterday stormed Lagos State to investigate the failed enterprises. Chairman of the committee Senator Ahmed Lawan revealed this when h...